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Surname
LAMB
Forename
Patrick
Day
28
Month
07
Year
1910
Age
30
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
West Glentore
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Peter Cairns
Location
Greengairs
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The shaft, which was 26 fathoms deep to the Upper Drumgray seam, was being sunk a further distance of 23 fathoms, and a lodgement was being made at the Upper Drumgray level. One cage was being used running in guides and as the sinking progressed wooden guides were put in. At the time of the accident the bottom of the shaft was 15 feet below the Upper Drumgray level and the deceased working there. A loaded hutch was put into the cage and then signalled away by the bottomer; the engine, which was a single one, had rested on the "centre," and the engineman reversed the engine and lowered the cage, and it caught the deceased and crushed his head against the end of a drill in a hole he was drilling.