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Surname
WILLIAMS
Forename
Charles
Day
18
Month
12
Year
1905
Age
65
Occupation
Roadsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Blaenavon, Big Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Blaenavon Iron & Steel Co. Ltd
Location
Blaenavon
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
When repairing on the main haulage road he was so busily engaged that he did not hear the journey coming and was run over by it. He was laying down a sleeper close to a manhole near a small winding engine, the noise of which may have been the cause of his not hearing the approach of journey.