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Surname
PREECE
Forename
Henry Charles
Day
02
Month
11
Year
1908
Age
47
Occupation
Assistant Hitcher
Mine/Quarry Name
South Wales
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lancaster's Steam Coal Collieries Ltd
Location
Cwmtillery
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
As he was descending with seven others in the first cage load of night men he was struck in the neck behind the jaw by some blunt instrument which made a hole in, and also fractured the base of his skull. Whatever struck him had evidently fallen in the shaft and caught him, being the outside man. What it was or where it came from remains unknown. The shaft had been examined about 2.30pm or about 4 hours before the accident and again after it but nothing was found throwing light upon it. I am classifying it as ‘Things falling from Surface,’ but cannot say definitely that it is so.