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Surname
MAIN
Forename
Edward
Day
09
Month
02
Year
1914
Age
50
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Stane, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Kepplehill Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
While getting his machine to pull itself up to the face, the picks probably caught on the corner of the jib stell and forced the machine outwards, knocking out the holding stell. He was thrown from the switch on to the revolving disc, and caught by the picks, and fatally injured.