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Surname
STRANG
Forename
Robert
Day
10
Month
12
Year
1928
Age
25
Occupation
Electrician
Mine/Quarry Name
Riddochhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Bathgate
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
10 December 1928: Bathgate Man Electrocuted - A fatal accident occurred yesterday morning, at Riddochhill Colliery, Bathgate, belonging to Wm. Baird &.Co. (Ltd) coalmaster, a young electrician, Robert Strang (25), High Street, Bathgate, being electrocuted. It appears that while executing repairs in the power station, he had inadvertently come into contact with a high tension conductor carrying about 3000 volts, and was killed instantaneously. Strang was married at the end of June last. [Scotsman 11 December 1928]