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Surname
NICOL
Forename
Hugh
Day
27
Month
08
Year
1926
Age
50
Occupation
Lead Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Queensberry Mine
Mineral Worked
Lead
Owner
The Wanlockhead Lead Mining Co. Ltd
Location
Wanlockhead
County
Dumfriesshire
Details of Event
27 August 1926: Wanlockhead Lead Miner Killed - A distressing fatality occurred late on Friday night in the Wanlockhead lead mine, when Hugh Nicol (50), was crushed by a descending cage. He was engaged at repair work at the pit bottom when he was struck by the cage and killed instantaneously. [Scotsman 30 August 1926] Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1926: Metalliferous Mines: There was one fatal accident during the year [in metalliferous mines]. It occurred at Queensberry (Lead) Mine, Dumfries, where two timbermen, who were also the shaftmen, had entered the skip at the surface after telling the engineman to which level to lower them. The engineman saw them into the skip, then lowered it a few inches and paused as an intimation that he was about to let them down At that moment one of the men put his head out and he was caught between the skip and a beam and killed. It is said he was leaning out to signal, but he had no need to signal. The mine arrangements were that the banksman should be present and signal and see all men safely away from the surface and if they had been fully acted upon the accident would not have happened.