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Surname
CLOWES
Forename
John
Day
18
Month
11
Year
1910
Age
61
Occupation
Pithead Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Lightshaw
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Muirkirk
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
The automatic gates protecting the shaft at the pithead level were out of order and the deceased pinned them up. He had emptied a hutch and intended to put it into the cage, but he, for some unexplained reason, pushed it in at the side the cage was not at and he fell with it on to the top of the other cage, a distance of 462 feet. If the gates had been in working order the accident could not have occurred.