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Surname
HARRIS
Forename
Thomas
Day
21
Month
08
Year
1917
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Viewpark
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Viewpark
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
21 August 1917: Uddingston – Colliery Accidents – On Tuesday evening Robert Law, residing in Lees' Land Thorniewood, was run down by a rake of runaway hutches, while at work in No.3 Nackerty Pit, and so severely injured that he had to be removed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in an ambulance waggon. The same evening Thomas Harris, residing at 13 Harrison Place, Springwell, Blantyre, was also run down while at work in Viewpark Colliery and conveyed home in an ambulance waggon. [Hamilton Advertiser 25 August 1917]