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Surname
HOPE
Forename
James
Day
06
Month
10
Year
1914
Age
25
Occupation
Haulier
Mine/Quarry Name
Ystradgynlais
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
South Wales Anthracite Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Ystradgynlais
County
Breconshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof on a double parting road. He was waiting with several other hauliers inbye a full journey on a double parting, at the end of the shift ready to go to the stables when an empty journey, in running into the parting, left the rails and knocked out some timber causing a stone to fall killing him.