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Surname
JONES
Forename
Alexander
Day
06
Month
08
Year
1914
Age
32
Occupation
Latcher
Mine/Quarry Name
Bedwellty Sidings
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Tredegar
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
While sitting on a beam of a locomotive engine ready to raise the coupling link attaching the engine to three practically empty trucks, a runaway journey of nine trucks of pitwood crashed into rear end forced the front empty wagon up to the beam where he was sitting crushing him to death against the end of the engine.