Full Details
- Surname
- OWEN
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 29
- Month
- 04
- Year
- 1904
- Age
- 27
- Occupation
- Slate Getter
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Llechwedd Quarry
- Mineral Worked
- Slate
- Owner
- J.W. Greaves & Sons Ltd
- Location
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- County
- Merionethshire
- Details of Event
- A small charge of gunpowder exploded while he was ramming it with a phosphor-bronze stemmer. He probably broke the fuse.
