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Surname
DICKSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
01
Month
03
Year
1909
Age
39
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Batonrigg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Baton Collieries Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was driving an electric coal cutter along a machine wall which had a very bad roof. He and the fireman had superintended the timbering and were both satisfied with it. While the machine was cutting the whole roof collapsed breaking the timber and a large stone fell on deceased and dislocated his neck. The colliery had been working irregularly and the "weight" which should have been back in the waste bad got forward on the face of the coal.