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- Surname
- SOMMERVILLE
- Forename
- William
- Day
- 10
- Month
- 04
- Year
- 1912
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Roadsman
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Wilsontown, No.3 Pit
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- William Dixon Ltd
- Location
- Forth
- County
- Lanarkshire
- Details of Event
- He was working on a dook with a gradient of 1 in 8, when a hutch, which had been left snibbled on the rails 60 yards above, was started by the friction of the haulage rope, and ran down the dook and struck him. He died on the 13th inst.
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