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Surname
KANE or KEANE
Forename
Michael
Day
06
Month
12
Year
1930
Age
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Shettleston, No.13 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Mount Vernon Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Baillieston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
6 December 1930: Pit Fatality At Baillieston - A young man named Michael Kane, a coalcutting machineman, 3 Portland Street, Coatbridge, was fatally injured on Saturday by a fall of coal and pelt from the coalface of the Ell seam in No.13 Shettleston Colliery, Baillieston. On being medically examined it was found that death was due to compound fracture of the skull. [Scotsman 8 December 1930] MINER'S DEATH AND SISTERS' PLEASURES - COMPENSATION APPEAL HOUSE OF LORDS - MOTHER WHO DECLINED £175 AWARDED £100 - The House of Lords yesterday gave judgment in an appeal which one of the claimants to compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act had stated that since her son’s death her two daughters were unable to go to so many dances and picture houses or to have so many clothes. Thomas Keane, his wife, and their two daughters, all Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, were the appellants against an award of £100 to the mother following the death of Michael Keane in pit belonging to the Mount Vernon Colliery Company, Limited, of Baillieston. His net earnings as a coalcutting machine man were £3 2s. 4d. weekly. After Michael's death the company offered £175, which the mother declined, and the arbitrator awarded her £100, rejecting the claim the other members of the family. A majority in the Second Division of the Court Session in Scotland affirmed the arbitrator's award, and this was appealed against. The matter came before Lords Buckmaster, Blanesburgh, Warrington, Russell and Macmillan. The appeal was dismissed by a majority. Lord Blanesburgh in dissenting, expressed the view that the arbitrator had misdirected himself and that the award should be sent back to him for reconsideration. [Nottingham Evening Post 28 February 1933]