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Surname
STEINITZ
Forename
Joseph
Day
10
Month
06
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Blantyreferme
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
A.G. Moore & Co. Ltd
Location
Uddingston
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
10 June 1915: Accidents at Uddingston Collieries - Four Men Injured - On Thursday evening owing to the irregular running of hutches at Messrs A.G. Moore & Company's Blantyre Ferme Colliery, Uddingston, three men were injured. One miner named Joseph Steinitz, residing at Croftbank Street Uddingston, said to have fallen in front of a rake, sustained a compound fracture of the left leg, which was also badly cut in two other places and was removed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Uddingston Ambulance waggon. Deogasis Sag, residing at 13 Pentland Place, Bridgeton, Glasgow, had his left leg badly crushed, and was removed home; while a Spaniard, name unknown, residing in the Company's houses at Calverdale Rows, Uddingston, was slightly injured and removed home. Yesterday forenoon, while a pit contractor named Thomas Daly, residing at Freebairn's Land, Main Street, Bothwell, was at work in Messrs Baird's Bothwell Castle Colliery, Bothwell, a fall took place. When extricated, it was found that Daly was seriously injured on the body and legs. He was conveyed home in a stretcher. [Scotsman 12 June 1915]