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- Surname
- CORRIGAN
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 11
- Month
- 02
- Year
- 1943
- Age
- Occupation
- Miner
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Whiteside
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Meadowhead Coal Co.
- Location
- Caldercruix
- County
- Lanarkshire
- Details of Event
- Gives names as Alexander Patrick Geddes and John Corrigan Byrne "Alexander Patrick Geddes, coal miner, 22 Gartlea Avenue, Airdrie and John Corrigan Byrne, coal miner, 247 Main Street, Plains, Lanarkshire, both died on 11 February 1943 in the shaft of Whiteside Colliery, Forrestfield, Lanarkshire, when, while standing on the cage and about to descend, the winding rope broke and they fell to the bottom of the said shaft"
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