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Surname
GOUGH
Forename
William
Day
28
Month
10
Year
1905
Age
41
Occupation
Assistant Pitman
Mine/Quarry Name
Blaensychan
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Partridge, Jones & Co. Ltd
Location
Abersychan
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
While engaged on top of the cage with the pitman examining the shaft they stopped at a small pump situated at the side of the pit, about 150 yards from the top and without any apparent cause, he fell down the shaft to the bottom, about 200 yards. The pitman first missed him upon asking for a spanner with which he wanted to screw up a bolt of the engine. The cage is a small one but he seems to have had experience upon it in this work.