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Surname
NK
Forename
NK
Day
NK
Month
NK
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Blantyreferme
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1929: Electricity At Blantyreferme Colliery, Lanark, a conveyor pan shifter, with the assistance of another man, was manipulating a conveyor pan into its new position in a low and very wet working. The pan was on its edge, and it was allowedto ride over alive flexible cable connected to a working coal cutting machine. The edge cut through the cab tyre sheath and into a live conductor. Both men received a severe shock and, in the case of one, it proved fatal.  The operation on a coal cutter face like this should be such that when conveyor shifting is going on coal cutters should not be working in the same face and the trailing cables should be coiled up somewhere out of the way.