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Details of Event: 29 January 1920: Boy Workers Tragic End - While at work on Thursday at the picking tables at No.1 Pit, Greenfield Colliery, William Stannage accidentally fell under the boarding and was caught in the revolving machinery and killed. Deceased who resided with his parents at 83 Donaldson Street, Burnbank, had just turned 14 years of age, and had only recently begun to work. [Hamilton Advertiser January 31 1920] Court of Session – Outer House – Tuesday January 18 (Before Lord Ashmore) - Boy Mine-Workers Death - W Stannage v Archibald Russell (Ltd) - Intimation was made of the settlement of an action in which William Stannage, miner, 86 Donaldson Street, Burnbank, Hamilton, sued Archibald Russell (Ltd.), coalmasters, Greenfield Colliery, Hamilton, for £500 damages for the death of his son William, aged 14 years. The boy had been employed by the defenders at their "coal-screeing" plant for about three months, earning an average wage of 26s. per week. In discharge of his duty on 29th January 1920 he proceeded to the gangway for the upper table, when he fell through a part that was unfenced and unguarded. He was caught by the lower delivery table, carried round a circular dram at the end and killed. The action was down for jury trial next week. The defenders have paid the pursuer £250 and expenses, and the action has been taken out of Court. [Scotsman 19 January 1921]