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Surname
DUNLAVEY
Forename
Thomas
Day
27
Month
01
Year
1911
Age
28
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Ballochney, No.3
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Ballochney Coal Co.
Location
Plains
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The kettle was not properly steadied before it was raised from the bottom of a sinking shaft, and, as there were no guiding boards on the lowest buntons, it caught one of them and pulled it out and it fell and hit the deceased on the head.