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Surname
WYATT
Forename
James
Day
11
Month
10
Year
1906
Age
22
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Lancaster
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lewis' Merthyr Consolidated Collieries Ltd
Location
Senghenydd
County
Glamorganshire
Details of Event
Fall of side at face, cliff, 2ft. by 9ins. by 9ins. thick, fell and struck deceased on the forehead. He fell backwards off a stage, upon which he had been standing and alighted on a heap of stones. He had driven a heading in the seam, and was making room for a length of arching at or near the face. The top cone projected too far in, and be got on to a stage to cut it away. Directly he did so, a stone, which the cone had supported, fell. It was thought to be a slight accident at the time. He died five days after the accident. Nine feet seam.