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Surname
McEWAN
Forename
Peter
Day
11
Month
03
Year
1909
Age
27
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Howmuir
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Auchinlea Coal Co.
Location
Cleland
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was driver of an electric coal cutter and had charge of the other machine-men. The accident occurred at a road head which was newly brushed and which deceased had examined while the machine was standing. It had just been set going again, when a large stone fell and killed him. Flat crowns were not in use in the machine wall, but if two had been applied there, the accident would not have occurred.