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18/01/2013
Manager Charged In Connection With Gleision Colliery Disaster
A mine manager has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of four miners in the Gleision colliery disaster.
The disaster at the mine in Swansea Valley happened on September 15 2011 and claimed the lives of 50-year-old David Powell, Charles Breslin, 62, Philip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39.
57-year-old mine manager Malcolm Fyfield has been charged with four counts of gross negligence manslaughter and will appear at Neath Magistrates Court on 1 February.
MNS Mining Ltd, the company which owns the colliery, has also been summonsed on four counts of corporate manslaughter.
Mr Fyfield was also seriously injured in the incident but escaped through an old mine shaft.
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The disaster at the mine in Swansea Valley happened on September 15 2011 and claimed the lives of 50-year-old David Powell, Charles Breslin, 62, Philip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39.
57-year-old mine manager Malcolm Fyfield has been charged with four counts of gross negligence manslaughter and will appear at Neath Magistrates Court on 1 February.
MNS Mining Ltd, the company which owns the colliery, has also been summonsed on four counts of corporate manslaughter.
Mr Fyfield was also seriously injured in the incident but escaped through an old mine shaft.
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