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Surname
HEPBURN
Forename
Alex.
Day
01
Month
08
Year
1924
Age
39
Occupation
Pit Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Logan's, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Location
Motherwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
1 August 1924: Fell Down Pit Shaft - Terrible Fatality at Logans Pit. The re-opening of the Logans pits last week was marked by a terrible fatality, which has cast a gloom over the local mining communities. At Logans No.2 Pit on Friday afternoon, Alex. Hepburn, a spare pit-bottomer, 39 years of age, and residing at Forrest Street, was at work in the splint coal seam, when having brought a hutch to the shaft, he was, it seems, in the belief that the cage was there to receive the hutch. There was, however, no cage there at the time, and Hepburn was precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 273 feet. When found, the body was found to be lifeless, death having taken place quickly. Deceased leaves a widow and young daughter to mourn his loss. The colliery where the sad affair occurred had been closed for a month owing to trade depression, and operations had just been resumed a few days before. [Motherwell Times 8 August 1924]