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Surname
PRITCHARD
Forename
Caradoc
Day
11
Month
04
Year
1914
Age
26
Occupation
Onsetter
Mine/Quarry Name
Gresford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Westminster & Wrexham Collieries Ltd
Location
Wrexham
County
Denbighshire
Details of Event
He was engaged as onsetter near the pit bottom, and appears to have taken out the locks from the wheels of the- first four full tubs. When eight other full tubs came against the four he was attempting to hold back they overpowered him and he was crushed against the cage which in the meantime had descended.