GEORGE PIT. Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. 9th. December, 1886.
The colliery was the property of Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company Limited and five men lost their lives when there was a collision of railway trucks on the self-acting incline between the George and Lower Duffryn Collieries when a stone was deliberately placed on the self-acting points below the meetings. Eleven men were riding to their work at the time, but riding was prohibited on the incline and several men had been prosecuted for doing so and other fined.
Those who lost their lives were:
- Daniel Crowley aged 38 years, stower,
- David Davies aged 21 years, stower,
- Michael Miskell aged 17 years, stower,
- Richard Thomas aged 21 years, collier,
- Samuel Thomas aged 58 years, collier.
REFERENCES
The Mines Inspectors Report 1886. Mr. Robson.
Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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