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Surname
WATSON
Forename
Robert
Day
03
Month
04
Year
1913
Age
22
Occupation
Banksman
Mine/Quarry Name
Carberry
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Edinburgh Collieries Co. Ltd
Location
Whitecraig
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
The deceased was turning round, after putting two empty hutches on to the cage, when he was struck by another empty, and knocked back into the shaft just as the cage descended, and was fatally crushed. A controller was provided to regulate the empties, and, by some means, this had evidently been half turned round, and so allowed another hutch to pass. Possibly Watson had only brought one hutch over the previous time and had forgotten to turn the controller.