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Surname
JONES
Forename
Daniel
Day
25
Month
10
Year
1908
Age
44
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Main, Nos 3 & 4
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Main Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Skewen
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Several men had been throughout the day, filling water which had accumulated on a double parting, into tanks. When the accident occurred the deceased was standing in a tram near the inbye end of the parting. Signals were given to the engineman to lower the tanks sharply into the parting so that they might run further in than on previous occasions. The front tank collided with the train in which deceased was standing, and he was knocked out, and so badly injured internally that he died next day.