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Surname
CLYDE
Forename
Thomas
Day
24
Month
11
Year
1918
Age
42
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Polmaise, Nos 3 & 4 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell Ltd
Location
Fallin
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Crushed by hutch. Thomas Clyde, Colliery Contractor, 20 Fallin Rows, was fatally injured while at work in the Knott Coal Seam, No.3 Pit, Fallin on Sunday afternoon (24 November 1918). He had been engaged in the slope dook along with two other men and had left for tie Pit bottom with a rake of hutches filled with refuse. The hutches were hauled by means of an electric engine and on the Engineman going out to investigate the cause of its stoppage, he found Clyde jammed between one of the hutches and the Fireman’s-cabin situated at the side of the haulage road. The unfortunate man was severely crushed and he expired shortly after being removed to the Pithead. Deceased, who was 42 years of age, leaves a widow and 9 children. (Stirling Journal).