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Surname
McCULLOCH
Forename
Thomas Orr
Day
08
Month
06
Year
1917
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Kenmuirhill, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Glasgow Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Shettleston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
8 June 1917: MINER KILLED AT CARMYLE. - Airdrie, Saturday. - Thomas Orr M'Culloch (45), a miner, residing at 22 Earl Street, Scotstoun, has been fatally injured in No.1 Kenmuirhill Colliery, Carmyle, belonging to the Glasgow Coal Company, Limited. He had been engaged at his working place howking out the bottom coal below a seam of fireclay, when sixteen feet of the clay came away on top of him, breaking his neck and causing instantaneous death. [Sunday Post 10 June 1917]