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Surname
McDADE
Forename
William
Day
14
Month
02
Year
1927
Age
16
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosehall, No.5 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Coatbridge
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
14 February 1927: Pithead Fatality Near Airdrie - Early yesterday morning a boy named William M'Dade, 16 years of age, residing at Whifflet Street, Coatbridge, was found badly crushed under a hutch of coal dirt that had been overturned at the screening plant at the Rosehall Colliery of R. Addie & Sons' Collieries (Ltd) The lad was still living, but before he could be extricated and removed he expired. How the accident happened has not been definitely ascertained. [Scotsman 15 February 1927] Crushed Under Hutch – William M'Dade (16) who was employed at the coal screening plant at No 5 Rosehall Colliery, near Coatbridge, was killed early on Monday morning in an accident, the cause of which has not yet been established. When he was emptying dirt from a hutch something went wrong with the haulage rope, which caused the hutch to be overturned. The boy was found underneath the hutch terribly crushed. He died before he could be removed. He resided in the new housing scheme at Whifflet. [Hamilton Advertiser 19 February 1927]