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Surname
ORR
Forename
David
Day
30
Month
07
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Polmaise, Nos 1 & 2 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell Ltd
Location
Stirling
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1929: Electricity  At Polmaise 1 and 2 Colliery, Stirling, a motorman was found electrocuted by the side of an oil immersed switch from which the oil tank had partly dropped away leaving live contacts exposed.  It is surmised that he had released one of the wing nuts which hold the oil tank in position, possibly when seeing it not quite screwed up, and that when the tank dropped he lost his balance and fell forward on the contacts."