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Surname
ADDIE
Forename
Andrew
Day
19
Month
06
Year
1913
Age
54
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Easter Jaw
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Carron Co.
Location
Slamannan
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
He was being lowered slowly down the pit with two other men, in the kettle, when a hook on the signal wire, which one of the men was passing through his hand, caught in the bottom of the kettle. The engineman, seeing the hammer hung up, took it for a "hung signal" and kept on lowering. When the kettle was nearly horizontal it swung clear and the deceased was struck by a part of the apparatus and killed on the spot.