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Surname
RHEAD
Forename
John
Day
25
Month
03
Year
1907
Age
28
Occupation
Motor Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Marine
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cwm
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
He was in charge of an Electric (Motor) haulage engine underground in the N.W. District Big Vein. It appears that the wires for the electric lighting (5 lamps in series) were so placed that they frequently got damaged by horse passing along the road and that they were frequently jointed by and everyone and these joints were not covered or insulated. Rhead appears to have gone to examine the wires which had again been disturbed by a horse and in turning a slack one out of the way he caught the bare part and received a severe shock from which he died. Unfortunately there was no one present who understood First Aid or there seems every reason to think his life would have been saved. The electrician appears to have been very slack about his work and was also found so on one or two previous occasions.