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Surname
SMITH
Forename
Alexander
Day
07
Month
08
Year
1913
Age
32
Occupation
Assistant Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Giffnock
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Giffnock Collieries Ltd
Location
Thornliebank
County
Renfrewshire
Details of Event
He was engaged replacing the blunt picks on the disc of a coal cutter with sharp ones, and when the disc began to revolve so that the part under the holing, where the blunt picks were, should be brought outside, the picks apparently struck the coal and the machine rebounded, causing the end next where deceased was to strike him and throw him on to the disc, which drew him to the coal and inflicted terrible injuries, from which he died.