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Details of Event: 6 October 1928: Bothwellhaugh - Killed On First day At Work - Work was stopped on Wednesday at both pits of Hamilton Palace Colliery, belonging to the Bent Coal Co., after an accident in which Sarah Cunningham, 14, Hill Place, Bothwellhaugh, was killed. While she was sitting on a plate near the stone conveyor, she overbalanced and fell into the machinery, receiving fatal injuries. The girl, whose father is a fireman at the colliery, was about to start her first day's work, having taken up duty at the pithead in place of her sister, who had a burning accident on Saturday. [Hamilton Advertiser 6 October 1928] Bothwellhaugh - A distressing fatal accident which occurred at No 1 Pit, Hamilton Palace Colliery on October 3, when Sarah M'Dowall Cunningham, 24 Hill Place, Bothwellhaugh, met her death, almost instantaneously, was the subject of a public inquiry in Hamilton on Monday. The girl had started work as a pithead scree worker only that morning. The evidence showed that she was sitting on an iron plate at the top of a shoot [sic] when she overbalanced in some way and fell down the shoot, and was so seriously injured that she died almost immediately. It was stated that no accident has happened there before, and that precaution had since been taken to prevent the possibility of anyone falling down the shoot. The jury returned a formal verdict. [Hamilton Advertiser 24 November 1928]