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Surname
HALLORAN
Forename
Patrick
Day
02
Month
10
Year
1927
Age
Occupation
Conveyor Shifter
Mine/Quarry Name
Viewpark
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Viewpark
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1927: Electricity: At Viewpark Colliery, Lanark, on 2nd October, a conveyor shifter was drawing the conveyor motor forward by means of a Sylvester prop withdrawer. A coal cutting machine was working on the face and the cab tyre trailing cable lay along the floor. The man inadvertently got the trailing cable jammed between the notched bar and the short end of the lever of the Sylvester and punctured the cable sheathing and the insulation. The shock he received killed him. In both of the cases described [see Rosehall 31 August], if the trailing cable had been hung up to the props the accident would not have happened.