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Surname
McMILLAN
Forename
William
Day
07
Month
12
Year
1920
Age
17
Occupation
Pony driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Dykehead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
22 March 1921: Larkhall - Accidents - A fatal accident occurred in the Virtuewell seam of Dykehead Colliery, Larkhall, about 11.30 on Wednesday, whereby James Clark, 23, gummer, residing at 47 Avon Street, Larkhall, lost his life. He was taking up his employment when he got in the way of a gelignite shot, and receiving the full force of the charge was instantaneously killed. - On Tuesday, about 7.30, Archibald M'Kane, 48, miner residing at 3 Quarry Street, Larkhall, met with an accident while employed at the coal face in the lower Drumgray seam in No.3 Pit Cornsilloch Colliery. A large stone came away from the roof, due to the displacing of a pit prop at the side of the working, and he was struck on the shoulder, causing a simple fracture of the left shoulder bone. He was removed home and there attended by Dr Stevenson. - William M'Millan, 17, driver, residing at 33 Summerlee Rows, who in December last met with an accident in the Pyotshaw seam of Dykehead Colliery and had both legs fractured, beside sustaining other injuries, succumbed to his injuries in the Royal Infirmary on Tuesday morning of this week. [Hamilton Advertiser 25 March 1921] Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was filling debris into a hutch at the face of stone drift when the root collapsed without warning and he was pinned under the fallen material. The fall slipped from between two keen lypes and reeled out the supports. He received such injuries that he died on 23rd March 1922.