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Surname
GRIFFITH
Forename
William
Day
18
Month
08
Year
1908
Age
46
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Lady Lewis
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lewis' Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd
Location
Porth
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Deceased, an experienced collier, was cutting coal in the Nine feet seam, when a piece of cliff 7.5 feet by 3 feet by 21 feet thick, fell from between two slips on to him, and injured him so severely that he died in 4 days. He is said to have examined the reef by sounding half an hour before the accident. A prop which had been set at the edge of the stone might have kept it up if it had a lid on.