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Surname
LANG
Forename
James
Day
19
Month
03
Year
1918
Age
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Bredisholm, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Collieries Ltd
Location
Bargeddie
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
19 March 1918: Uddingston - Gas Explosion at Nackerty Colliery - About 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, while a number of men were at work in United Collieries No.2 Pit, Nackerty, and explosion of gas took place, when James Lang, Old Rows, Nackerty, and Michael Duffy, Drumpark, were seriously injured about the face and body. Land, who was in a critical condition, was removed to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, while Duffy was removed home. Lang succumbed to his injuries on Thursday morning. [Hamilton Advertiser 23 March 1918] The first [fatal explosion of firedamp], at Bredisholm, occurred on 19th March, when a miner and a drawer, in contravention of General Regulation 4, went into an abandoned roadway to get some rails. The naked lights which they carried ignited gas which had accumulated, and the drawer was so severely burned that he died three days later. [Mine Inspectors Report 1918] Newspaper report - Bothwell pages