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Surname
AHERN
Forename
Patrick
Day
09
Month
04
Year
1907
Age
26
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Deep Duffryn
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Nixon's Navigation Co. Ltd
Location
Mountain Ash
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Deceased was in the face of a stall unloading and stowing rubbish when a fall of cliff, 12ft. by 7ft by 2ft thick from between four slants discharged two posts and fell on him Shortly before the accident, the collier in charge of the stall by pulling down a slip of coal had knocked out another post from under the stone. The post he did not immediately replace, as he should have done, but went on filling coal. Four-feet seam.