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Surname
DICKSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
03
Month
02
Year
1902
Age
13
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Tannochside, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
06 February 1902: Nackerty - Boys' Pit Accidents - While engaged at the face at No.4 Pit, Bredisholm Colliery, on Thursday forenoon, John Cowan, 14, son of a miner at Cuthbert Street, Tannochside, was struck by a stone weighing about 2 cwts falling on him from the roof. He sustained a fracture of the left leg, and was removed home. - On Monday [= 3rd], Thomas Dickson, 13, drawer, Grique Terrace, Uddingston, was hurt in No.2 Tannochside Colliery by losing his footing going down the steep incline with an empty hutch, the hutch going on top of him and causing him to sustain a fracture of the right leg 3 inches above the ankle joint. The accident arose through a dispute as to the ownership of the hutch. [Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser 8 February 1902]