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Surname
PATERSON
Forename
Robert B.
Day
21
Month
04
Year
1914
Age
47
Occupation
Pumper
Mine/Quarry Name
Bentrigg, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
H. McNeill Hamilton
Location
Netherburn
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
21 April 1914: Pit accident at Larkhall - Yesterday morning Robert B. Paterson, colliery fireman, residing at Grangerfield Place, Larkhall, lost his life in Shawsburn Colliery, Larkhall. He was examining the working places, and in the course of doing so he seems to have fallen down the shaft and been fatally injured. [Scotsman 22 April 1914] No one was present and how he met his death can only be conjectured, but it appears that he had been attending a steam pump at a mid working, and the heat seems to have affected him. He apparently crawled under a fence protecting the opening into the shaft, and fell into the shaft just as one of the cages was passing the place at a slow speed, as his body was found on the cage. The only mark of injury was on his head.