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Surname
McWILLIAMS
Forename
Thomas
Day
01
Month
03
Year
1912
Age
31
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Gartshore, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Twechar
County
Dunbartonshire
Details of Event
Owing to the miners' strike material for use underground was being sent down the pit, among other things were malleable iron tubes. On the dip cage five such tubes, 12ft. long by 3in. diameter, were placed, and they were not fastened in any way as the cage descended two left their position and leaned over towards the barring, and on reaching an old opening in the shaft fell into it unknown to the men at the pit bottom, and the ends projecting into the cage space. Deceased was ascending in the same cage and at the old opening it struck the tubes they were thrown into the shaft, and at the same time he was apparently also struck, thrown off the cage, and fell to the bottom, a distance of about 9 fathoms. From the nature of the injuries, deceased appears to have been killed from the tubes striking him.