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Surname
SWAN
Forename
Robert
Day
13
Month
11
Year
1908
Age
34
Occupation
Pitheadman
Mine/Quarry Name
Newbattle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lothian Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newtongrange
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged sending bricks from he lower scaffold at surface to the pit bottom, and loaded the bricks into the tubs on the cage he signalled the cage with empty tubs to lower scaffold, and went forward to the shaft to open the gate where cage was but inadvertently opened the wrong gate and fell into the shaft.