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Surname
BLACK
Forename
William
Day
02
Month
10
Year
1911
Age
25
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Fauldhead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd
Location
Kirkconnel
County
Dumfriesshire
Details of Event
He was taking a rake of tubs up an inclined part of a haulage road, and heard what he thought was a rake of empties coming down. He stepped in front of his own rake, and was walking there, when the tubs which he had heard, and which proved to be a rake of runaway loaded tubs, crashed into him and his rake, and injured him so badly that he died the same day.