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Surname
BANK
Forename
Thomas
Day
29
Month
08
Year
1908
Age
35
Occupation
Inclineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Niddrie
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Gilmerton
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
An incline shaft from the surface is used exclusively for steam and discharge pipes for pumps and upcast and an examination is made weekly by two men by means of a carriage lowered and raised by a steam engine on surface. Owing to the steam pipes and exhaust steam from the pumps &c. underground the temperature is 109 degrees F. As usual two men descended on the carriage to make the inspection and when some distance down something went wrong with the carriage, which caused it to leave the rails and one of the men fell to the bottom the other man attempted to climb to the surface but becoming exhausted by the exertion and heat he sat down, and was found with his right foot firmly fixed between pipe and side wall quite dead. The men were accustomed to the work. 2 killed.