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Surname
McCART
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
10
Year
1914
Age
39
Occupation
Haulage Hand
Mine/Quarry Name
Hamilton Palace
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bent Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Bothwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased, and another workman, went into the shaft to repair the signal wire; he had to get some distance above the cage, which was resting in the bottom, to a pulley carrying the wire. In getting the wire into its position on the pulley he seems to have pulled it sufficiently far to give the signal to ascend with the result that the cage was raised while he was descending by way of the "buntons," and he was caught and fatally crushed.