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Surname
JAMES
Forename
David J.
Day
08
Month
01
Year
1907
Age
38
Occupation
Rider
Mine/Quarry Name
Llanerch
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Partridge, Jones & Co. Ltd
Location
Abersychan
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
When riding a journey of full trams on a level in the Big Vein, and approaching the Main Drift, the tram in which he was riding appears to have left the rails and either thrown him off or caused him to jump off, in either case he was caught by some of the trams and crushed. When the journey was stopped he was found pinned between the eighth tram and a post at the corner of a manhole. The cause of the accident appears to have been some stone falling on the rails from the side of the road.