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- Surname
- YATES
- Forename
- Lewis
- Day
- 20
- Month
- 06
- Year
- 1908
- Age
- 28
- Occupation
- Collier
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Celynen
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Newport, Abercarn, Black Vein Steam Coal Co. Ltd
- Location
- Abercarn
- County
- Monmouthshire
- Details of Event
- Fall of roof in the main engine road at a bridge (about 2 yards in length), or short piece left unfinished by the repairers. The timbers were probably loosened by a journey which got off the road a quarter of an hour before. The examiner of the district examined it and thought it safe and was at the place when the accident occurred. I think he was guilty of an error of judgement in allowing the journey and the men to pass, although he had had some timbers set to secure it.
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