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Surname
ALLARDYCE
Forename
Andrew
Day
07
Month
08
Year
1913
Age
46
Occupation
Deputy Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Fergushill, No.22 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A. Finnie & Son
Location
Kilwinning
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
They were both employed cleaning up a fall and setting limber at the entrance to a place which had been driven into faulty ground, for a distance of more than 250ft., and which was ventilated by means of brattice cloth. The fall had broken down the brattice, and the place, in consequence, had been standing unventilated for a week. On the morning of the accident the men, who walked with naked lights, for some reason went into the unventilated place and ignited gas, which exploded and killed Allardyce and burned Galome so severely that he died two days later. The men ought not to have gone into such a place, and Allardyce, at any rate, must have had some idea of what was likely to occur as he was spare fireman for the Pit. The fireman had neglected to erect or have erected a fence just beyond where the men were working to prevent them inadvertently entering the place. 2 killed.