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Surname
YANDLE
Forename
Cyrus
Day
23
Month
01
Year
1907
Age
19
Occupation
Collier
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitworth
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Tredegar
County
Monmouthshire
Details of Event
Fall of roof at the face in the Ras Las Seam, where a coal cutter was employed. It was his duty to set props along the face as the machine advanced, but having taken his dinner while the machine was working he got behind with his propping. Upon resuming work and while measuring for a prop a large stone fell from an unseen slip and killed him in on the spot. I pointed out that a youth of his age could not be considered suitable and proper person for such important work, and was promised that more mature and experienced men would be appointed for it in the future.