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Surname
NELSON
Forename
Robert
Day
11
Month
04
Year
1911
Age
33
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Carmyle, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Dunlop & Co. Ltd
Location
Carmyle
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another man were at work in the bottom of a winding shaft, which was being deepened. They detached, the winding rope from the kettle in the shaft bottom and signalled for it to be raised, in order that a second kettle might he lowered from the seam above to allow of some water being got out of the bottom of the shaft more quickly. The rope after being raised swung about, and the shackle pin caught two battens, which formed the "strike" or landing boards for the kettles of water at the seam above, and pulled them up; they fell down the shaft on to the head of deceased, 6 fathoms below, and killed him. If the signaller on the landing had attended properly to his duty, he should have stopped the rope when it began to swing, and the strike should not have been made so that it could he caught by the shackle pin in the way it was.