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Surname
WILLIAMS
Forename
John
Day
23
Month
04
Year
1908
Age
26
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Blaensychan
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Partridge, Jones & Co. Ltd
Location
Abersychan
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof in a Meadow Vein road where he and his brother were sent to clean up a fall and to do any repairs required. The roof is hard and this stone appears to have been tried a quarter of an hour before by the examiner and a roadman, who considered it safe. Deceased was trying it when it fell.