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Surname
YOUNG
Forename
Robert Henry
Day
03
Month
12
Year
1914
Age
43
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Llandybie
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cleeves' Western Valleys Anthracite Collieries Ltd
Location
Llandybie
County
Carmarthenshire
Details of Event
He was suffocated by trying to reach the face of a rising tophole, 56 yards long, which he knew to be full of methane gas, for the purpose of knocking coal to find out approximately where, and how far, the road was from another level higher up.