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Surname
SMART
Forename
Robert McLean
Day
07
Month
04
Year
1970
Age
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Hindsward Opencast
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cain & Hamilton
Location
Cumnock
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
Robert McLean Smart, machineman, 8 Burnside Place, Auchtermuchty, Fife, died on 7 Apr 1970 at Hindsward Open Cast Mine, Skares, Cumnock, Ayrshire, when the bucket of a dragline excavator machine there containing several tons of rock emptied on top of the bulldozer he was driving and crushed him"