New Search

Return to Search Results

Full Details

Surname
McALLISTER
Forename
Thomas
Day
13
Month
12
Year
1900
Age
29
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Birkrigg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Darngavil Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Larkhall
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased's duty was to take hutches loaded with ashes from the boiler fires and place them on one of the cages running in the shaft at the surface level, in order that they might be raised to the level of pithead, where they were taken off the cage and emptied over the dirt bing. He either was under the impression that the cage was at the required point at surface level when this was not the case, or while placing a hutch to be ready allowed it to go too far; at any rate, he fell into the shaft with a hutch.