Claim: Aubrey Strahan was a British geologist known for surveying the South Wales coalfields which was notorious for fatal accidents.
Evidence: Sir Aubrey Strahan KBE FRS (20 April 1852 – 4 March 1928) was a British geologist. Geological surveying of the South Wales coalfields Much later, in the middle of the 20th century, mining was still a hazardous enterprise, resulting in many accidents and long term ill-health with many retired miners still suffering from silicosis and other mining related diseases.