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Surname
RUNDELL
Forename
Robert
Day
11
Month
05
Year
1913
Age
37
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Raploch
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Raploch Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Larkhall
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The fireman and an assistant were engaged cutting a hitch at the top of a cuddle brae. They charged a shot containing 1.5lbs. of gelignite, and proceeded down the brae some 40 yards to await its going off. When the shot went off the concussion extinguished both their open lights. Shortly afterwards they heard a hutch running down the brae thinking it was the cuddy that had broken away, they attempted across to the empty side, and the fireman, being uppermost, was struck by an empty hutch which, they allege, ran from a side road off the brae, and which was started away by the concussion of the shot. I am inclined to think they were either using this hutch as a shield from the shot, or that they lit the shot and them jumped into the empty and rode down the brae. He died four days later.