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Surname
JONES
Forename
Edgar
Day
01
Month
10
Year
1908
Age
20
Occupation
Rider
Mine/Quarry Name
Cribbwr Fawr
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cribbwr Fawr Collieries Ltd
Location
Pyle
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
A short incline or jig, having a gradient of 1 in 2, was worked by a 12 horse power engine, electrically driven. A rope from the drum passed up the incline and around a 2 feet sheave fixed in a horizontal framing at the top. The incline is arranged to work one tram up or down, but on this occasion two empties were drawn up, and there being no clearance at the top the capping of the rope was partly drawn round the sheave so as to allow the second tram to clear the points into a side road. The rope came out of the capping while the attempt was being made, and the deceased who was below at the points was struck down and killed by the runaway trams.