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Surname
DOWTHER
Forename
James
Day
13
Month
01
Year
1908
Age
71
Occupation
Dirt picker
Mine/Quarry Name
Fortrigg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Collieries Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The table for nuts is driven by a belt off a pulley situated outside the pithead shed and while in operation the belt came off the pulley. In order to get belt on, deceased got a ladder took off the box in which the pulley ran and proceeded to slip the belt on while pulley was in motion, when the shaft end caught his clothing and he was taken round and left suspended in mid-air. He was dead before released.