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Surname
HIGGINS
Forename
John
Day
04
Month
10
Year
1913
Age
20
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Cadzow
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased attached a horse to a bogie in which were the picks of the coal cutters. He proceeded on the haulage way until he readied the top of a stone mine where he unhooked the horse. The stone mine dips 1 in 9, and he appears to have allowed the bogie, on which he and another workman sat, to run at a rapid rate, and, on reaching a bend of the road, on which were bevelled pulleys, the shears struck one of them causing the bogie to leave the rails, and pitching both men out. Deceased seems either to have been caught by the handle of the brake or the shears as he pitched forward, and was fatally injured.