Full Details

Surname

YANDLE

Forename

Cyrus

Day

23

Month

01

Year

1907

Age

19

Occupation

Collier

Mine/Quarry Name

Whitworth

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Tredegar

County

Monmouthshire

Details of Event

Fall of roof at the face in the Ras Las Seam, where a coal cutter was employed. It was his duty to set props along the face as the machine advanced, but having taken his dinner while the machine was working he got behind with his propping. Upon resuming work and while measuring for a prop a large stone fell from an unseen slip and killed him in on the spot. I pointed out that a youth of his age could not be considered suitable and proper person for such important work, and was promised that more mature and experienced men would be appointed for it in the future.