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Surname
BELL
Forename
Robert
Day
08
Month
04
Year
1913
Age
25
Occupation
Chainer
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosehall, No.14 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Coatbridge
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased left the top dook road and rode on the chain as usual. The rake consisted of ten tubs and in the seventh from the chain five props, 7 feet long, were placed, with the projecting ends facing the rise; on the way something happened causing deceased to stop the rake, and after everything was in readiness the rake again proceeded and shortly after it suddenly stopped of its own accord. A workman thought the rake was long in coming to the bottom of the dook, and he proceeded up and found the deceased in the sixth tub with the one end of a 7 feet prop against him, and the other end jammed against a crown in centre of road. It is thought that deceased had some trouble with the props while descending the dook, and that he placed one across the sixth tub and sat with it to keep it in place when one end fell off into tub, and the other projected just as it was near a low crown.