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| Date: | 3rd May 1908 |
| Colliery: | Aberaman |
| Company: | Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Fall of roof |
| Lives Lost: | 3 |
| Category: | Falls in the Mine :: Falls of Roof |
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 | Lewis, Thomas, aged 31, Haulier, Fall of roof. Deceased were sent to pull down a low "bridge" of cliff on an engine plane in Seven feet seam. The bridge of ground, 11 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 17 inches thick, was said to have shown no signs of weakness, but, owing to gradual squeeze, the height under it (5 feet 3 inches) was less than the average height of the plane. On the upper side of the bridge the ground had been ripped up to a bed of rock. There was no surviving witness of the accident, but an inspection of the place made it plain that as they loosened the bed of cliff, they liberated a mass of the rock bed above from a concealed slant running along one side of the road. The place was untimbered. The fall of rock was 16 feet by 7 feet by 18 to 30 inches thick, in addition to the bridge which they intended to rip |
| | Steer, George, aged 31, Ripper, Fall of roof. Deceased were sent to pull down a low "bridge" of cliff on an engine plane in Seven feet seam. The bridge of ground, 11 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 17 inches thick, was said to have shown no signs of weakness, but, owing to gradual squeeze, the height under it (5 feet 3 inches) was less than the average height of the plane. On the upper side of the bridge the ground had been ripped up to a bed of rock. There was no surviving witness of the accident, but an inspection of the place made it plain that as they loosened the bed of cliff, they liberated a mass of the rock bed above from a concealed slant running along one side of the road. The place was untimbered. The fall of rock was 16 feet by 7 feet by 18 to 30 inches thick, in addition to the bridge which they intended to rip |
| | Wilkinson, S., aged 37, Assistant ripper, Fall of roof. Deceased were sent to pull down a low "bridge" of cliff on an engine plane in Seven feet seam. The bridge of ground, 11 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 17 inches thick, was said to have shown no signs of weakness, but, owing to gradual squeeze, the height under it (5 feet 3 inches) was less than the average height of the plane. On the upper side of the bridge the ground had been ripped up to a bed of rock. There was no surviving witness of the accident, but an inspection of the place made it plain that as they loosened the bed of cliff, they liberated a mass of the rock bed above from a concealed slant running along one side of the road. The place was untimbered. The fall of rock was 16 feet by 7 feet by 18 to 30 inches thick, in addition to the bridge which they intended to rip |
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