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Surname
BARR
Forename
Adam
Day
04
Month
10
Year
1911
Age
72
Occupation
Oncostman
Mine/Quarry Name
Hamilton Palace
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bent Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Bothwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
He and other seven men were being lowered in the shaft to their work, when the winding engineman failed to check the speed of the descending cage sufficiently, and it struck the cage violently. The ascending cage was taken up against the pulley, but fortunately no one was in it Deceased died on the 7th October, and all the other men were more or less injured.