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Surname
GARRET
Forename
Thomas
Day
30
Month
06
Year
1927
Age
23
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Killochan
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
South Ayrshire Collieries Ltd
Location
Dailly
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
30 June 1927: Ayrshire Pit Fatality - Late on Thursday night, while Thomas Garrett (23), a "brusher," was working in the roads of the Killochan Pit, near Dailly, belonging to South Ayrshire Collieries (Ltd.), a wall of coal fell, sandwiching him between the falling coal and a pillar of wood. He seemed to have been completely embedded in the debris, and it took his comrades fully an hour before they found him. He was carried to the cage at the outlet of the pit. Dr M'Inroy, Dailly, pronounced life extinct. Garrett leaves a wife and two children. [Scotsman 2 July 1927]