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Surname
KERR
Forename
Robert
Day
21
Month
11
Year
1922
Age
38
Occupation
Miner's Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Craigend
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Carron Co.
Location
Maddiston
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was waiting on the haulage road with his loaded tub when he was struck by a runaway tub. His breast bone and several of his ribs were fractured. He died nine days later. The runaway tub was one being brought out by another drawer; the locker broke and the drawer lost control. The gradient of the road was 1 in 12.