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Surname
CROW
Forename
Neil
Day
10
Month
10
Year
1911
Age
27
Occupation
Strapper
Mine/Quarry Name
Dechmont, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell Ltd
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
A Fireman improperly took two men into a section of the Upper Ell Coal Seam before he had inspected it. On arriving within a 100 yards of the face, he left the men behind and commenced to inspect the roadway and working faces, but found, owing to gas being present in the right hand side of the section, the men could not get in. He tightened up the canvas doors, which caused a portion of the face to be cleared. In the meantime two other men had come into the section and joined those already there. The Fireman left these four men where they were and went out of the pit. An explosion afterwards occurred, but what was the cause of it is not quite clear. All the men had safety lamps, and the glass of one was afterwards found broken, but whether this had occurred before the ignition of the gas, or it was broken by the force of the explosion, is doubtful. If the broken glass was not the cause, a match must have been struck by one of the inch. Crow died on 16th at 1.20 a.m.