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Surname
SMITH
Forename
Hugh
Day
19
Month
10
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Electrician
Mine/Quarry Name
Gartshore, Nos 9 & 11 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Twechar
County
Dunbartonshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1929:  On surface  One electrical fatality occurred at Gartshore 9/11 Colliery Dumbarton, where an apprentice electrician was employed in the cleaning of insulators in connection with a high tension overhead line. He was sitting on the girder frame work where a number of the overhead conductors are brought together for distribution purposes. The work was being supervised by an electrician, and it was expected that all the conductors had been made dead and would be kept dead by the switching off of the current at the Supply Station.  Owing to some misunderstanding as to instructions given by telephone from the man who was controlling the supply, the current was switched on and the apprentice unwittingly touched a live wire and was electrocuted.