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Surname
RUSSELL
Forename
Duncan
Day
11
Month
12
Year
1906
Age
31
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Shotts
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Shotts Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The system of haulage is endless rope speed 2.5 miles per hour. The tubs are conveyed in rakes of ten with a bogie in front and the rope is attached by means of a gripper or sheares. The haulage road is 1,400 yards long and worked by bogie boys between the mid bye and the shaft, a distance of 1,200 yards, and from the mid bye deceased bogied the tubs to and from the inside or inbye lye. When the rake had not reached the mid lye his custom was to go on with his loaded rake until he met the incoming rake and a transference took place. On the occasion on which the accident occurred he met a bogie boy 700 yards outbye from the mid lye, and, as usual, handed over his rake to the boy to proceed to the shaft, while he took the empty rake toward the inside. About 15 minutes afterwards another bogie boy was proceeding inbye with en empty rake when his bogie collided with the rear of a rake in front, and deceased shouted for help; he was found on the opposite line of rails under the tubs and the bogie was partly over to the empty side and free of the rope; his injuries were serious and he succumbed three days later. The accident was due to the rake having run amain and some of the tubs left the rails and at a lower part of the pavement than usual the bogie and tubs were thrown to the opposite side, and deceased was pushed out the track of a derailed truck was discovered for 150 yards. The plane is undulating and for 300 yards dipped inbye 1 in 14, and it appears deceased released the rope from the "hears and allowed the rake to run free inbye.