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Surname
NK
Forename
NK
Day
08
Month
NK
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Portland, Nos 4 & 6 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Portland Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Hurlford
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1929: Shaft Accident  The other fatality from a rope breakage occurred at Portland 4/6 Colliery, Ayr, when a fireman who was called upon to examine the guides, which were giving trouble in a blind pit used for lowering coal from one seam to another, was killed. He was descending the shaft when the cage stuck for a moment or two, then fell away, and broke the rope. This was not a shaft in which persons were lowered or raised except for such work as the fireman had undertaken.