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Surname
HAWTHORN
Forename
Douglas
Day
06
Month
08
Year
1938
Age
34
Occupation
Surface Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Smeaton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Dalkeith
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
6 August 1938: Pithead Platform Accident - While hutches of coal which had been brought up from the mines at Smeaton Collieries, near Dalkeith, were being removed from the pithead on Saturday afternoon a platform to which they were being directed gave way, and half a dozen of the hutches and a number of empties were thrown a distance of about ten feet. Two men who were working at the end of the platform also slipped down and were injured. They were Thomas Charles M'Kay (40), 51 Woodburn Drive, Dalkeith, who sustained a fractured right leg and injuries to his right shoulder: and Douglas Hawthorn (34), 23 Smeaton Cottages, who received cuts on the left arm and injuries to his left leg. Both were removed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where they were detained, after having been attended to locally. [Scotsman 8 August 1938]