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| Date: | 18th May 1908 |
| Colliery: | Aber |
| Company: | Cory Bros. and Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Fall of roof |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Falls in the Mine :: Falls of Roof |
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 | Evans, Benjamin, aged 50, Repairer, Fall of roof. At face ; an old trial level used as a water course was being reopened and enlarged, when a quantity of alluvial ground burst away the face supports and suffocated the men before they could be recovered. The depth from surface was probably 12 yards to the face of the level. Naked lights |
| | Heard, William, aged 43, Repairer, Fall of roof. At face ; an old trial level used as a water course was being reopened and enlarged, when a quantity of alluvial ground burst away the face supports and suffocated the men before they could be recovered. The depth from surface was probably 12 yards to the face of the level. Naked lights |
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