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Surname
GRAHAM
Forename
David
Day
31
Month
03
Year
1914
Age
35
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Blairmuckhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A. & G. Anderson
Location
Harthill
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was working at the the top end of a coal-cutting machine run, setting timber to allow the coal cutter to pass. A place is driven in advance of the line of machine face to facilitate the starting of the machine on a new cut, and when this place had been brushed a part of the side was left overhanging. Graham was setting timber under this when it fell away from a lype and caught him. The brushers in a former shift ought either to have taken this overhanging stone down or set a bar to support it.