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Surname
JACK
Forename
George Thomson
Day
05
Month
02
Year
1917
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Glenclelland, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Horn (Glasgow) Ltd
Location
Cleland
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
5 February 1917: Colliery Cage Without Gates – Manager and Undermanager Fined - A prosecution brought under the Coal Mines Act, 1911 was heard in Hamilton Sheriff Court on Tuesday. George Morrison, colliery manager, Rossvale, Walter Street, Wishaw, was charged with having during the period between 1st September 1916, and 5th February. 1917, he being the manager of No.2 Pit, Glenclelland Colliery, in the parish of Dalziel, and occupied by Horn Glasgow, Ltd., a mine to which the Coal Mines Act of 1911 applies, did, in respect to the cage in use at said pit for the lowering and raising of persons, fail to have the cage provided with suitable gates or other rigid fence. The under-manager, George Cook, residing at Glenclelland House, Wishaw, was charged with having during the same period at the same pit failed to enforce to the best of his power the provisions of Section 40 (7) of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, in so far that, he failed to see that the cage in use for the lowering and raising of persons was provided with suitable gates or other rigid fence. Both respondents pleaded guilty, and it was explained that the prosecutions arose out of fatal accident which had occurred at the pit on 5th February, when a father and son were being raise to the surface, and the cage, coming to a bad joint in the slides, gave a jerk, with the result that the father was thrown out of the cage and killed. On behalf of the respondents, it was explained that the miners had a prejudice against being raised and lowered by No.1 shaft, where the cage was provided with gates, and that in consequence, the practice continued of the men being raised and lowered by No.2 shaft, where gates were not in use for the cage. The manager was fined £10, with the alternative of twenty days’ imprisonment, and the penalty in the case of the under-manager was £5, or ten days’ imprisonment. [Hamilton Advertiser19 May 1917]