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Surname
MILLER
Forename
Archibald
Day
18
Month
09
Year
1900
Age
21
Occupation
Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Drumpeller, No.4 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Wood Ltd
Location
Coatbridge
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
While in the shaft screwing up the pump valve cover the engineman raised the cage which caught him and caused him to fall to the bottom a distance of 533 fathoms. The prescribed code of signals was not used when the deceased and the overman ascended to the pump but the cage was raised from the pump without a signal having been given.