Full Details

Surname

WILLIS

Forename

W.J.

Day

23

Month

10

Year

1902

Age

16

Occupation

Collier Boy

Mine/Quarry Name

Raglan

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Hedley's Collieries Co.

Location

Heol-y-Cyw

County

Glamorganshire

Details of Event

Run over by two runaway empty trams as he was walking up the engine plane at the end of his shift. The trams got detached from the journey by the pin of the shackle lifting by a jerk. He had just passed a manhole.