Full Details

Surname

DAVIES

Forename

Joshua

Day

08

Month

01

Year

1904

Age

22

Occupation

Timber drawer

Mine/Quarry Name

Rose Heyworth

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Lancaster's Steam Coal Collieries Ltd

Location

Cwmtillery

County

Monmouthshire

Details of Event

He was employed hitching trams on the endless rope haulage near the shaft but had, for some reason not explained gone a little way up the tramroad and was crushed or ran over by a tram running back in consequence of the clip becoming detached probably as suggested by the master haulier through the hole in the draw bar being worn large thus facilitating detachment.