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Surname
HAMILTON
Forename
Joseph
Day
14
Month
03
Year
1936
Age
19
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Ramsay
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Shotts Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Loanhead
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
14 March 1936: Loanhead Pit fatality - Joseph Hamilton (19), 3 Laurel Terrace, Edinburgh, employed with the Shotts Iron Co. (Ltd.), was instantaneously killed while at work in Ramsay Colliery, Loanhead, on Saturday. Deceased, who was employed as a miner's drawer, fell a considerable distance over an incline, and sustained a fractured skull. [Scotsman 16 March 1936]