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Surname
SCOTT
Forename
Stenhouse
Day
28
Month
01
Year
1914
Age
16
Occupation
Trapper
Mine/Quarry Name
Newbattle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lothian Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newtongrange
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
His duty was to open a wooden ventilation door at the foot of an incline in order to allow rakes of full hutches to pass through. He sat in a manhole besides the door, and to open it had to step in front of it and pull it towards him. On this occasion he had not attempted to open the door soon enough, and was crushed against it by the rake of hutches coming down. It is probable that he had lost his light and owing to the darkness, was not aware the rake was so near to the door when he attempted to pull it open. A chain should have been attached by which he would have been able to open the door without stepping out of the place of refuge; the accident would thus have been avoided.