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Surname
GRIER
Forename
James
Day
31
Month
03
Year
1939
Age
26
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Parkneuk
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Glasgow Iron & Steel Co. Ltd
Location
Motherwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
31 March 1939: Motherwell Miner Fatally Injured - A miner named James Grier (26), 6 Milnwood Drive, Motherwell, received fatal head injuries yesterday afternoon while at work in the blackband coal section of Parkneuk Colliery, (Glasgow Iron and Steel Co.), Motherwell. He had evidently been run down by a hutch half a mile west of the pit bottom. He died last night in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 1 April 1939]