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Surname
GRIFFITHS
Forename
William E.
Day
25
Month
01
Year
1909
Age
15
Occupation
Lamp boy
Mine/Quarry Name
North Blaina
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
J. & W. Stone
Location
Blaina
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
Back of both legs burned, his clothes having caught fire as a result of his throwing some colzaline oil on a fire which he and a man were lighting in a repairing shop, part of a lamp cabin on the surface at Lower Deep pit. The oil used was colzaline with 68 to 80 degrees flash point. This I believe is the second death from the use of this oil in the lamp cabins at this colliery.