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- Surname
- RIGGANS
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 28
- Month
- 12
- Year
- 1927
- Age
- Occupation
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Pennyvenie, No.4 Pit
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Dalmellington Iron Co. Ltd
- Location
- Dalmellington
- County
- Ayrshire
- Details of Event
- Explosion of fire damp.
Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1927: Explosion: At Pennyvenie No.4 Mine, Ayrshire, on 5th December, a small section in a safety lamp area in a naked light mine was being worked with electric cap lamps when an explosion occurred and three miners were burned. Ten per cent, of the miners were searched daily but, even with this, the man who was burned so badly that he died told the Manager he had lit a match to light a naked light lamp when the explosion occurred. What tempted him to do so was not revealed till the Fatal Accident Inquiry, when it came out in evidence that the electric cap lamps were so badly kept that failures in light were not uncommon.
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