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Date:  18th March 1908
Colliery:  Ferndale, No. 7
Company:  D. Davis and Sons, Ltd.
Cause:  Run over or crushed by trams or tubs
Lives Lost:  2
Category:  Miscellaneous Accidents Underground :: Haulage :: Run over or crushed by trams or tubs

Fatalities



Individual page Hughes, William John, aged 40, Assistant repairer, The deceased were filling rubbish into trams when a journey of eight trams of rubbish ran back down the dip and killed them. The rider had left them two empty trams, and was taking the full journey up towards the pit, when it ran against a piece of timber lying on the road. The sudden check caused a link of the chain attaching the rope to the journey to open at a bad weld, and liberate the journey. The rider had neglected to attach a barhook
Individual page Rowe, William, aged 23, Repairer, The deceased were filling rubbish into trams when a journey of eight trams of rubbish ran back down the dip and killed them. The rider had left them two empty trams, and was taking the full journey up towards the pit, when it ran against a piece of timber lying on the road. The sudden check caused a link of the chain attaching the rope to the journey to open at a bad weld, and liberate the journey. The rider had neglected to attach a barhook
 
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Injured

Individual page Evans, Roderick, Repairer, The deceased were filling rubbish into trams when a journey of eight trams of rubbish ran back down the dip and killed them. The rider had left them two empty trams, and was taking the full journey up towards the pit, when it ran against a piece of timber lying on the road. The sudden check caused a link of the chain attaching the rope to the journey to open at a bad weld, and liberate the journey. The rider had neglected to attach a barhook

Newspaper Articles


21 Mar 1908  Mine Roof Collapse, A Tylorstown Accident, Two Men Killed : One Badly Hurt (The Cardiff Times)
21 Mar 1908  Disastrous Falls, Five Colliers Killed And Injured (Weekly Mail)

 

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