Full Details

Surname

WATTS

Forename

David John

Day

15

Month

08

Year

1913

Age

14

Occupation

Collier Boy

Mine/Quarry Name

Nantgwyn

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Naval Colliery Co. (1897) Ltd

Location

Penygraig

County

Glamorganshire

Details of Event

In descending a staple pit, with 11 others, the sheet-iron side of the cage caught in the flange of a pipe column in the pit the fence bar at the end of the cage was knocked up and he was precipitated into the shaft. Died 17th.