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Surname
LOCHHEAD
Forename
Thomas
Day
28
Month
05
Year
1923
Age
41
Occupation
Shaft Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Parkhead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Glasgow Iron & Steel Co. Ltd
Location
Motherwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
28 May 1923: Thomas Lochhead (41), a pit sinker, residing at Stirling Bridge, Newmains, was killed while at work yesterday at Parkhead Colliery, Motherwell. Deceased had been engaged in the work of sinking a shaft from the splint coal to the black band seam. Lochhead and another workman had just closed in the slides for the purpose of allowing the cage to travel up and down. He stepped onto a bar on which the cage rests, which gave way beneath him, precipitating him to the bottom of the shaft. [Glasgow Herald 29 May 1923]