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Surname
SIMPSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
02
Month
12
Year
1913
Age
15
Occupation
Pitheadboy
Mine/Quarry Name
Meadowbank
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Polmont
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged in taking off the loaded hutches at No.1 shaft, which is a down-cast with forcing fan. A hutch of redd came up, which had to be taken off the opposite side to the full hutches of coal, and in order to do this, the cage had to be raised 3 inches. Owing to a mistake in the signalling the cage, instead of ascending, descended and Simpson was caught and pulled down with it. He fell to the bottom of the shaft and was killed.