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Surname
SALATHIEL
Forename
Daniel
Day
06
Month
03
Year
1907
Age
60
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Llanerch
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Partridge, Jones & Co. Ltd
Location
Abersychan
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof in a working place in the Meadow vein where there is 7.5 feet of coal with 20 inches of clod above it. The top or engine coal 18 inches thick is left on as a roof only 6ft of coal being worked. Deceased and others were engaged stowing or filling up a length behind the face when the fall occurred. The roof was unusually friable owing to approaching old fairly well timbered workings and apparently flats would have been desirable instead of caps on the props otherwise for ordinary conditions the place seemed to be fairly well timbered.