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Surname
HAMILTON
Forename
John
Day
26
Month
06
Year
1916
Age
65
Occupation
Waggon shifter
Mine/Quarry Name
Calderbank
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Collieries Ltd
Location
Baillieston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Fatal Shunting Accident, Monday 26/06/1916, around 12.30 – John Hamilton, 65, a waggon shifter, was fatally injured while employed at the railway siding at Calderbank Colliery, owned by the United Collieries Ltd. He had been endeavouring to push forward a waggon along with another man in order to get a snibble [locker] out of a wheel. On the waggon coming in contact with the other four the pinch Hamilton held slipped and caused him to fall. His right leg got across the rail and one of the wheels of a waggon ran over and rested upon the leg, the waggons being almost at a standstill. His lower leg was badly crushed and the bones broken, so he was taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary where he died of shock the same night about 11.15. Hamilton was a widower, with a grown up family. [Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser 1 July 1916]