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Surname
REDMOND
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
05
Year
1926
Age
42
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Fauldhead, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd
Location
Kirkconnel
County
Dumfriesshire
Details of Event
16 April 1926 & 2 May 1926: Kirkconnel Pit Accidents - Miner Dies From Injuries - During the weekend an alarming series of accidents occurred in the Fauldhead Collieries of the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries. On Monday night Robert Redmond, 42 years of age, who resides in Kingsway, Kellobank, was working on the afternoon shift, and was in the act of preparing a blasting shot in his working place in Young's Dook No.1 Pit, when for some unaccountable reason the shot went off, and he received the force of it about the head and body. He was severely injured about the face, and was conveyed to Dumfries Infirmary, after receiving first aid treatment. Charles M’Intosh, a young miner who resided at the Model lodging-house in Back Street, was injured on Thursday night, and died from his injuries in Dumfries Infirmary on Friday. Deceased, who was a native of Paisley, had left the coal face with a loaded hutch of coals, and was delayed on the way out. Unfortunately another loaded hutch crashed into M’Intosh, who was jammed between the two hutches and sustained a fractured spine. His remains were conveyed to his home in Paisley. On Saturday William Sloane, miner, who resides in St Conal's Square, was injured by a fall from the roof, his left hand being crushed, and it was found necessary to amputate two fingers. John Laird, miner, Kirkland Cottage, who is employed in No.1 Fauldhead Pit, was attaching a hutch to a haulage when the wire rope broke and the clutch rebounded, with the result that Laird sustained a fractured arm. [Dumfries and Galloway Standard 21 April 1926] Note Robert Redmond died 2 May 1926 in Western Infirmary, Glasgow.