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| Date: | 18th March 1908 |
| Colliery: | Dinorwic (Slate) |
| Company: | C. G. Assheton-Smith |
| Cause: | By Blasting |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Inside the Quarries :: By Blasting :: While Charging or Tamping |
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 | Evans, Owen G., aged 58, Slategetter, A charge consisting of 10 lbs. of blasting gelatine and 15 lbs. of gelignite exploded, while it was being forcibly pushed into a shot hole. The explosives were frozen, and only a portion of them had been thawed |
| | Jones, William Thomas, aged 40, Slategetter, A charge consisting of 10 lbs. of blasting gelatine and 15 lbs. of gelignite exploded, while it was being forcibly pushed into a shot hole. The explosives were frozen, and only a portion of them had been thawed |
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