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Surname
DAVIS
Forename
Edward
Day
12
Month
10
Year
1938
Age
14
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Holytown
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Holytown
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
12 October 1938: Killed At His First Job - Last night, at Holytown Colliery, New Stevenston, of James Nimmo & Company, a boy, Edward Davis, aged 14, of Nimmo's Road, New Stevenston, was caught in the conveyor of the coal washing plant and killed. Davis was due to stop work at 4 o'clock, but at finishing time no one observed him leaving for home. A search was instituted by the colliery officials and others, but it was not until several hours later that the body of the youth was discovered. He had been caught in the driving chain of the conveyor which distributes the washed coal to the waggons. Davis was not due to leave school at the summer holidays owing to the relationship between his birthday and the restart of the schools. On obtaining his situation, however, he was granted exemption by the Education Authority, and had only started work a week or so ago. Davis's father is employed underground at the same colliery, and was at work at the time of the accident. [Scotsman 13 October 1938]