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Surname
WILLIAMS
Forename
Abe
Day
17
Month
03
Year
1903
Age
28
Occupation
Hitcher
Mine/Quarry Name
Pochin
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hollybush
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
The banksman who seems to have been a little deaf thought he received a signal from the bottom to go on and accordingly signalled according to the engineman who drew up the cage with the result that the deceased was crushed and killed at the bottom of the shaft while pushing trams through the cage.