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Surname
RODNEY
Forename
William
Day
14
Month
01
Year
1917
Age
Occupation
Roadsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Allanton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Barr & Sons (Coalmasters) Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
14 January 1917: Larkhall Colliery Fatalities - Another fatal accident took place in No.2 Pit of the same colliery shortly after noon on Sunday, when a fall from the roof occurred in the main haulage road. At that time three men, Wm. Rodney, roadsman, 34 Portland Place, Hamilton, Malcolm Hill, bogie boy, 38 Raploch Street, and Cornelius Smith, 23 Brown Street, both of Larkhall, were engaged in the seam and all three were caught in the fall. The breakaway was unforeseen, and Rodney was completely buried by it. Assistance was procured and the unfortunate man was extricated, but life was found to be extinct, death having been probably been instantaneous. Hill, who was struck by a large stone, received a fracture of the left femur, and after having been medically attended, was removed to the Royal Infirmary in the ambulance waggon. Smith's injuries, which consisted chiefly of a punctured wound on the left arm pit, were not so serious and he was able to walk home. Rodney was a married man and is survived by a widow and young family. [Hamilton Herald 17 January 1917]