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Brymbo Steelworks, 1965
Illustration of the railway accident at the Vale of Neath Station, 1874
  • A list of the accidents which occurred at the Dinorwig and Penrhyn slate quarries in the period 1822-79. This booklet was compiled from accident reports which appeared in the 'Herald Cymraeg' newspaper.
Cynauaf Damwain: a List of the Accidents which occurred at the Dinorwig and Penrhyn slate quarries (Caernarfon, [1879]), [front cover, image 1 of 20]
  • From 1897, when the Workmen's Compensation Act was introduced, employers kept registers of accidents occurring at work. These pages are from an accident register kept by the Rhymey Iron Company, and relate to the coal mines which it owned at the top of the Rhymey valley on the Glamorgan/Monmouthshire border. They record three accidents which occurred during June and July 1901. One of the accidents was fatal, one resulted in the amputation of a finger of a 13-year-old boy, and the third was less serious.
Rhymney Iron Company accident register, 1901
Nurse's uniform, 1930s
  • This wicker stretcher was used to transport injured an quarryman down the rock face in Dinorwig quarry. The body was secured with straps and a frame protected the head. The bottles on each side of the stretcher were filled with warm water and strapped to the injured quarryman to keep him warm during the descent.
Stretcher with two hot water bottles, Dinorwig Quarry Hospital