While walking out along an engine plane at the end of his shift, he was severely injured in a manhole which he had entered to take refuge from a train of nine trams running wild in consequence of the breaking of a haulage rope. The trams tumbled at the manhole. He died next day.
Buried:
[not known]
Category:
Miscellaneous Accidents Underground :: Haulage :: Ropes or Chains breaking
Sources
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Swansea District (No. 11) by J. Dyer Lewis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Page: 85, Accident Number: 37 Where to find this report
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