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Surname
McGEVER
Forename
Patrick
Day
08
Month
03
Year
1929
Age
21
Occupation
Pit Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Wester Auchengeich, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Bishopbriggs
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
8 March 1929: Glasgow Pit Workers Fatal Fall - Michael M'Gever (21), pit sinker, who resided at 48 Abbotsford Place, South Side, Glasgow, met his death under tragic circumstances on Saturday at Messrs James Nimmo & Co.'s No.3 Pit, Wester Auchengeoich Colliery, Auchinairn, Bishopbriggs. M'Gever and another sinker, Edward Boyle, 379 Argyle Street, Glasgow, was standing on a cage about six fathoms from the surface, being engaged putting new slides into the pit shaft. Endeavouring to remove a bolt from one of the wooden battens, which separates the one shaft from the other, and to which the slides are fixed, M'Gever had to use an iron punch. On removing the punch, M'Gever seems to have overbalanced, and, falling between the battens, he was precipitated into the adjoining shaft, where there is no cage. He fell a distance of 110 fathoms, and when picked up life was extinct. [Scotsman 11 March 1929] NB According to NAS catalogue name was Patrick McGever