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Surname
JONES
Forename
David
Day
25
Month
02
Year
1902
Age
30
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bwlchgwyn Quarry
Mineral Worked
Sandstone
Owner
Bwichgwyn Roadstone Co. Ltd
Location
Bwlchgwyn
County
Denbighshire
Details of Event
A charge of gelatine dynamite which he and his mate were pushing into a hole with a wooden stick, exploded. He was killed on the spot and his mate had the sight of one eye destroyed. The probability in that the explosion which was taken from the magazine in the morning had become frozen during the day.