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Surname
WHEELAN
Forename
James
Day
19
Month
06
Year
1908
Age
29
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
South Duffryn, No.1
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Hills’ Plymouth Co. Ltd
Location
Troedyrhiw
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Deceased was fetched by a collier to stand posts under the collars on a portion of his road, a narrow level in the Red Coal Seam, where a sharp squeeze was taking place. The level had passed through disturbed ground, and was closely timbered. He had set one post in the middle of the road under a collar, and was setting another under the adjoining pair of timber, when a general collapse occurred, and he was completely buried. Four or five pairs of timbers had been forced down by a large quantity of broken coal and cliff. The collars were unbroken, and the squeeze seems to have been caused by the short arms having been forced down into the bottom so that they formed a fracture parallel with the road, and were subsiding into it when deceased was propping.