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Surname
NUSON
Forename
Denis
Day
01
Month
10
Year
1913
Age
20
Occupation
Surface Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Auchincruive
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Prestwick
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
He was assisting to adjust empty tubs on cage when the cage suddenly descended, and he was thrown into the shaft and crushed between the cage and the scaffold at the mouth of the shaft. The engineman apparently went away without having received the signal from the surface.