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Surname
BARNES
Forename
William
Day
05
Month
01
Year
1925
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Newcraighall, Klondyke Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newcraighall
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
5 January 1925: Midlothian Pit Accident – 14 Men Injured – Cage-Winding Mishap - An accident, which might have been fraught with more serious consequences, occurred yesterday morning at the Klondyke pit, New Craighall, of the Niddrie and Benhar Coal Company (Ltd), situated about two miles from Musselburgh. Fourteen miners were injured. By a winding accident, the descending cage, a two-deck structure of iron, loaded with fifteen men, dropped a distance of about thirty feet. A safety clutch device, which by the automatic cutting of a copper band, throws out lateral spikes operated effectively, and so prevented the up-going cage, also loaded with men, from being involved. The shaft is a perpendicular one of 140 fathoms.