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Surname
ERSKINE
Forename
Alexander
Day
27
Month
09
Year
1905
Age
21
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Glencraig
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was employed by a contractor who worked in a heading rising 1 in 3.5 and a branch. The coal was run to the level by means of a cut through a wheel being at the top. The places were worked alternately and the branch was being worked at the time of the accident. When the heading was least worked a loaded tub was left standing on level rails and the rope was constantly rubbing on it in moving up and down. A tub was being run from the branch and just as it moved away the tub above ran away down it crashed into the branch crushing deceased between the collision caused the rope top slip and both ran down carrying deceased between them, and at a high part of the roadway the runaway tub ran over the other. The constant movement of the rope on the tub had eventually brought it to the steep. It was said the tub was secured by sprags in the wheels bit it was evident that it was insufficiently secured.