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Surname
MUIR
Forename
James
Day
04
Month
08
Year
1902
Age
32
Occupation
Haulage Runner
Mine/Quarry Name
Morningside
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
United Collieries Ltd
Location
Wishaw
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The engine for the dook haulage is situated on the surface and rope is led down the shaft in wooden rhones. While the rake was descending the rope burst through the rhones into the shaft just as the cage was ascending and the cage caught the rope and forced it upwards. At that moment the deceased was pushing behind the rake at a flat part of the roadway and the sudden raising of the rake pulled the tubs beck and caused them to run over him.