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Surname
HAMILTON
Forename
William
Day
21
Month
01
Year
1901
Age
37
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Wallyford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Edinburgh Collieries Co. Ltd
Location
Musselburgh
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
Deceased and other sinkers were enlarging a shaft and a few fathoms below them was a scaffold on which the debris fell. The enlargement was proceeding at a point a short distance below the Great Seam and where a crosscut mine left the shaft to cut the seam. The previous shift had left their work fearing a fall and the contractor and others were in the shaft for the purpose of making it secure when a large quantity of stone fell away above the crosscut and the two deceased fell with it on to the scaffold below the contractor and others escaping with difficulty. 2 killed.