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Surname
MITCHELL
Forename
John
Day
14
Month
08
Year
1900
Age
65
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Devon
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Alloa Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Sauchie
County
Clackmannanshire
Details of Event
While a bogieman was riding in front of a set of loaded tubs on an engine dook 1,100 yards in length, he observed deceased standing on the right side of the road. Immediately after passing him he heard a cry, and at once jumped off the bogie and signalled to stop the set. His lamp having been extinguished, he went down the dook for a short distance to get a light, and on returning found deceased on the left side of dook about 10 yards above the point where he had passed him, and in the act of crawling from between the fourth and fifth tubs of the set. Deceased stated that while the set was passing him his foot slipped, and he fell against the electric signal wires, receiving a shock which caused him to recoil and fall between the tubs. From the relative positions of deceased, some pump pipes, a wire rope,and the signal wires, it appeared to be much more probable that he had been attempting to get upon the tubs or the couplings between them in order to ride up the dook, a practice which, although forbidden by the Special Rules, was evidently somewhat prevalent in the mine at the time. Deceased succumbed to his injuries nine days afterwards.