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Surname
KILDAY
Forename
John
Day
22
Month
05
Year
1914
Age
21
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bent
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bent Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another man were starting to pull an electrically driven coal cutter into its place, for undercutting the coal, by its own power, when a small piece of the roof consisting of ironstone rib fell on the revolving disc, which was not under the coal, with the result that the machine was thrown bodily round towards the waste, and before he could get clear he was caught by the revolving disc, and so severely injured that he died the same day.