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Surname
MEACHAN
Forename
Patrick
Day
05
Month
11
Year
1912
Age
38
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Holytown
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Holytown
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased, with another workman, was taming his loaded tub from his road to the lye of cousie brae when a loaded runaway tub came down the heading and ran against a tub on the same line of rails, causing it to move forward against his tub. He attempted to clear himself by springing to the side of the roadway of the lye, but was too late, the tub striking him and causing fatal injury. The runaway tub was loaded with debris, and two men in charge of it lost control while re-railing it 230 feet above.