Full Details

Surname

CULLEN

Forename

Frank

Day

15

Month

03

Year

1913

Age

35

Occupation

Undermanager

Mine/Quarry Name

Newbury

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Llwydcoed Collieries Co. Ltd

Location

Newbury

County

Somersetshire

Details of Event

He went some 13 yards up an almost vertical shute to release a blockage of coal, and, as he might have anticipated, when be released the coal he was surrounded by it and carried down to the mouth of the shute and suffocated.