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Surname
UNKNOWN
Forename
Unknown
Day
NK
Month
NK
Year
1927
Age
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Kingshill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Coltness Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Allanton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1927: Suffocation by natural gases - At Kingshill Colliery, Lanark, a fireman who had been making inspection on a Sunday evening was found asphyxiated by fire-damp on one side of the brattice in a narrow steep place which had been driven up the vees of a fault for exploration purposes. His electric lamp was alight, but his flame safety lamp was extinguished and hanging on his belt. Presumably he did not expect gas in quantity in the place, as none had been found previously, and he apparently was in the midst of an accumulation before he thought of testing for it. There had been a long stoppage of the fan for repair during the day, and if he had been alive to the possible results of this the accident should not have happened.