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Surname
ECCLES
Forename
Peter
Day
10
Month
11
Year
1913
Age
19
Occupation
Pony Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Orbiston, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Orbiston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The deceased and another youth were employed as drivers on a road rising 1 in 7, on which the full hutches were pulled up by horse and the empty ones brought down by hand. To facilitate the stopping of them at the foot of the road the deceased usually placed a piece of brattice cloth across the rails on which the hutches ran. He was engaged in doing this when the accident occurred, and he was caught by the down coming hutch and crushed against a tree. He died the following day.