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Surname
McALLISTER
Forename
John
Day
03
Month
05
Year
1901
Age
26
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Dechmont, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The rope came off the pithead pulley just as the cage with eight men in it reached the pithead. When the cage dropped the deceased either jumped off or fell from the cage down the shaft. A gland clamped to the rope with a small pulley attached left on by inadvertence by men working in the shaft was the cause of the rope coming out of the groove of the pulley.