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Surname
HEARD
Forename
James
Day
31
Month
05
Year
1907
Age
44
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Blaenant
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Marquis of Bute
Location
Abernant
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
As deceased was standing near a tram, which he had been filling with dust on a haulage road rising 1 in 7 the screw pin of the shackle, connecting the full journey with the tall-rope broke and the journey crashed into his tram pinning him to the side, and killing him on the spot. The fracture of the pin was clean and crystalline.