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Surname
McDONALD
Forename
Patrick
Day
18
Month
08
Year
1927
Age
20
Occupation
Haulage hand
Mine/Quarry Name
Bardykes, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
18 August 1927: Colliery Fatality at Blantyre - Between one and two o'clock yesterday afternoon a fatal accident occurred in No.1 Pit, Bardykes Colliery, Blantyre which belongs to the Summerlee Iron and Coal Co. (Ltd.), the victim being Patrick M'Donald (20 years), who resided with his widowed mother at 44 Dixon Street, Blantyre. While he was taking a rake of hutches along the main haulage road, a large fall of stones and debris came away from the roof, and he was pinned underneath. Assistance was quickly forthcoming, but, when M'Donald was extricated life was found to be extinct, death having in all likelihood been instantaneous. [Scotsman 19 August 1927]