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Surname
TODD
Forename
John
Day
19
Month
01
Year
1911
Age
70
Occupation
Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Hillhead.
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
J. & M. Craig (Kilmarnock) Ltd
Location
Kilmarnock
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
The winding engineman had lowered the cage to the Ell Coal inset and the deceased opened the gate and took the empty hutch off it. He then detached a loaded hutch from the loaded rake standing at the bottom, and pushed it down into what he thought was the cage. In the meantime, however, the cage had been raised up the shaft and deceased and the hutch fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 150 feet. The inset was badly lighted.