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Surname
WALLACE
Forename
Samuel
Day
28
Month
08
Year
1913
Age
32
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Law, No.3 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd
Location
Carluke
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The deceased and another man were attempting to draw a coal cutting machine up the face by its own power without the disc cutting. The revolving disc caught the coal, twisting the machine partly round, and Wallace was knocked on to the picks and badly injured. He died about two hours later.