"Shocking Fatality in Dean Forest" - James JONES Lydbrook (General)

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Lydbrook Deep Level Colliery
Owned by the Lydbrook Colliery Company


Evening Express (Cardiff)
17th September 1892

P.R.O ref CO4/2/4
Inquest No 153
Inquest date 17th September 1892

Gloucester Journal
Saturday 17th September 1892

JAMES JONES aged 62 years General labourer
Killed 13th September 1892

FATAL ACCIDENT
Evening Express:-
(Identical piece to the Gloucester Journal)
Shocking fatality in Dean Forest
James Jones, 62 years of age, labourer of Bill Hill, Lydbrook, was instantaneously killed whist at work at the Lydbrook Deep Level Colliery, West Dean (sic) . Deceased and other men were taking down an overhead wood bridge which had been used for carrying coals to the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge railway. He had just sawn through, close to the ground, one of the eight inch baulks which supported the bridge, the timber being about fifteen feet in length, when it fell upon him, smashing his head to pieces
(Note Lydbrook is in East Dean)

P.R.O verdict:
Fracture of the skull, the result of a fall of a trestle which he was engaged in taking down. The deceased by his negligence largely contributed to his death

Gloucester Journal:
Shocking fatality in Dean Forest
James Jones, 62 years of age, labourer, Bell Hill, Lydbrook, was instantly killed while at work at the Lydbrook Deep Level Colliery, West Dean (its East Dean –DT) Deceased and other men were taking down an overhead wooden bridge which had been used for conveying coals on the