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Surname
ALLAN
Forename
Robert
Day
18
Month
01
Year
1911
Age
37
Occupation
Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Bedlay
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Glenboig
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
When putting a loaded hutch forward to put into the cage at a mid-landing in the shaft he went in from of it and down into the side the cage was not at. He and the hutch fell into the shaft and forced out two of the iron rods forming the cage seat and he fell to the bottom of the shaft a distance of 480 ft. He should not have been in front of the hutch if he had been at the back it is probable the accident would not have occurred.