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Surname
JACQUES
Forename
Henry
Day
05
Month
09
Year
1908
Age
67
Occupation
Lamp locker
Mine/Quarry Name
Senghenydd
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lewis' Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd
Location
Senghenydd
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
This accident was due to deceased’s eagerness to be at the shaft bottom to go up the pit at 1pm. Before leaving the top of a self-acting incline he was told not to go, as the journey was about to start. He however persisted and got into a manhole a little above the meetings to allow the journey to pass down. The journey stopped at the meetings as there was no room for the full one to run into the pit parting. When there was room the man at the bottom signalled with the knocker wire which itself should have warned deceased to stop in the manhole. As the journey restarted the haulier at the incline top saw lights on the road on which the empty journey would travel. He rushed to the knocker wire and knocked ‘stop’ but at the same time saw two lights disappear. Deceased was found under the last tram of the empty journey. How he was foolish enough to get on the empty road is a mystery as he must crossed the rope of the full journey to get there. He probably forgot which road the full journey had taken and never looked to see in which direction the ropes were travelling. There was a notice at the bottom of the incline prohibiting persons from walking on it when the journeys were in motion.