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Surname
HOWELLS
Forename
Francis
Day
20
Month
03
Year
1910
Age
28
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Wernavon
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wernavon Colliery Co.
Location
Cwmafan
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
While raising a piece of bottom stone near the extremity of a former shot, the steel wedge he was driving into a crack in the stratum appears to have struck some unexploded pellets of Saxonite left in the shot hole, causing an explosion which killed him and injured his partner.