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Surname
ROBINSON
Forename
James
Day
21
Month
11
Year
1918
Age
15
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosehall, No.15 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Coatbridge
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
21 November 1918: Serious Accident in Rosehall Pit – Two Boys Killed – About 2.5pm on Thursday a serious accident resulting in the death of two young lads and injury to a third took place in No.15 Pit Rosehall Colliery, belonging to Robert Addie and Sons, Coatbridge. A rake of twelve empty hutches had been run from the pit bottom down the dook, a gradient of 1 in 5 to Cosgroves Lye, 300 fathoms from the pit bottom, the haulage rope being attached to the rear hutch. The lye itself is level and it was necessary to push the empty rake into and around the curve. The haulage was stopped and the rope got out of the rhone in the shafts with the result that it got entangled in the ascending cage. The rope piling up derailed the hutches which were pulled to the side. This displaced the legs supporting the crownhead at the lye and caused it to fall upon the two lads, killing them outright. Their names were:-