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Surname
GEMMELL
Forename
David Baird
Day
23
Month
09
Year
1936
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Blairmuckhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A. & G. Anderson
Location
Harthill
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
26 November 1936: David Gemmell, 10 White Street, Harthill, who was admitted to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on September 23, died yesterday morning as a result of his injuries. He was struck by a stone while at work in Blairmuckhill Colliery. [Scotsman 27 November 1936] Lanarkshire Fatalities - The jury returned a similar verdict [formal verdict] regarding David Baird Gemmell, miner 10 Whyte Street, Harthill, who died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in November as a result of an accident at the upper Drumgray seam of Noll Blairmuckhill Colliery, Harthill. Gemmell was stated to have fired a shot, and to have been found by another workman lying in the roadway. He told the witness that a stone weighing about 14cwts had fallen on him. He had worked himself clear. His spine was fractured, and he had other injuries. [Scotsman 12 January 1937]