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Surname
THOMAS
Forename
Rees Hopkin
Day
18
Month
09
Year
1914
Age
20
Occupation
Hitcher
Mine/Quarry Name
Cefn Golau
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cefngoleu Colliery Ltd
Location
Gowerton
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
When riding between trams from one stage to another on a gradient 36 degrees, a pin worked free from a coupling between the rope and the full trams, causing the latter to run back about six yards, and these injured him so severely that he died two days later.