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Surname
DICKSON
Forename
John
Day
20
Month
12
Year
1928
Age
22
Occupation
Pithead engineer
Mine/Quarry Name
Cadzow
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
20 December 1928: Tragic Pit Occurrence - John Dickson, 22, a pithead engineer, residing at 241 Low-waters, was killed while working at Cadzow Colliery about 10.15 on Thursday night. Dickson was attending to a hutch when his foot slipped in the groove through which the creeper passes in conveying the hutches to the screening plant. He was terribly crushed by the hutch and died almost instantaneously. Dickson, whose father is chief engineer at Cadzow Colliery, was well known and respected in the district. He was unmarried. [Hamilton Advertiser 22 December 1928]