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Surname
GUNTER
Forename
Thomas
Day
21
Month
12
Year
1911
Age
28
Occupation
Pumper
Mine/Quarry Name
Trafalgar
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Trafalgar Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Drybrook
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
Some tubs pulled with short props were standing spragged up at the head of an incline to go inbye. The main rope was attached and the sprags withdrawn from the wheels of the tubs the couplings tightened p and the first tub moved forward leaving its centre bar behind. It ran amain down the incline and into deceased as he was proceeding inbye killing him. The centre bars are attached to the tubs by two 3/4in. diameter bolts, which in this case had broken off inside the oak sole, but the two parts of each bolt had remained in situ until the jerk at the top of the incline, when the couplings tightened up.