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Surname
PIPER
Forename
James
Day
13
Month
08
Year
1908
Age
20
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Senghenydd
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lewis' Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd
Location
Senghenydd
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Fall of side at face, coal and shale, 33 inches by 18 inches by 36 inches thick, fell from above a sprag in a seam 3 feet 3 inches thick, and knocked him down. In falling his skull was fractured against a cog. His partner said that be had previously tried to pull the piece of coal down but had failed. Four feet seam.