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Surname
MCALEESE or M'LEISH
Forename
Samuel McMillan
Day
15
Month
10
Year
1929
Age
20
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Auchincruive, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Prestwick
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
15 October 1929: Ayr Pit Fatality - An accident which resulted in the death of Samuel M'Millan M'Leish (20) occurred in No.2 Mossblown colliery, near Ayr, yesterday afternoon. M'Leish, who was employed as a clipper, was jammed between an iron girder and a hutch, and was so severely injured about the chest, several of his ribs being fractured, that he died almost immediately. He was the sole support of a widowed mother. [Scotsman 16 October 1929] Register of FAI - killed by being crushed between a moving hutch and an iron beam