Full Details

Surname

THOMAS

Forename

Rees Hopkin

Day

18

Month

09

Year

1914

Age

20

Occupation

Hitcher

Mine/Quarry Name

Cefn Golau

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Cefngoleu Colliery Ltd

Location

Gowerton

County

Glamorganshire

Details of Event

When riding between trams from one stage to another on a gradient 36 degrees, a pin worked free from a coupling between the rope and the full trams, causing the latter to run back about six yards, and these injured him so severely that he died two days later.