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Surname
MUIR
Forename
Hugh
Day
15
Month
04
Year
1918
Age
42
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Bothwell Castle, No.4 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Blantyre
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
15 April 1918: Blantyre - Colliery Fatality - About 3 o'clock on Monday morning, Archd. Campbell, 39, colliery fireman, 26 Colebrooke Street, Cambuslang, was accidentally killed, and Hugh Muir, 42, brusher, 130 Glasgow Road, Burnbank, Hamilton, had his right hand cut off by a fall of stone from the roof, in the west main coal seam of No.4 Pit, Priory Colliery, Blantyre. The men, along with others, appear to have been engaged clearing away a fall which had taken place in Friday last, when at the time stated a second fall came away from the roof. Muir was struck and thrown outwards, and managed to get clear except for the injuries to his hand. Campbell, however, was completely buried under the debris, his body not being recovered until. Campbell's body was taken home, and Muir was removed to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. [The Lanarkshire, Incorporating the Hamilton Herald 17 April 1918]