New Search

Return to Search Results

Full Details

Surname
THOMSON
Forename
Alexander
Day
03
Month
11
Year
1926
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Robroyston
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Watson Ltd
Location
Barmulloch
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1926: Suffocation by natural gases: At Robroyston Colliery, Lanark, two miners who had resumed work for the first time during the last month of the stoppage, were given permission to go to a certain point, where there was a through airway between two stone drifts, to seek their tools, which they said had been left there in April. The roads had been examined to this point but not beyond. No fence, however, had been erected, but the men were well warned not to go beyond the part specified. They did not return when they ought and their bodies were found among firedamp 70 yds. beyond where they ought to have stopped.