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Surname
WATTERS
Forename
John
Day
07
Month
05
Year
1936
Age
27
Occupation
Oncost Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Calderhead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Shotts Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
7 May 1936: Joseph Duffy, 28 years of age, married, a coat-cutting machineman, residing in lodgings at 28 Easter Row, Dykehead, Shotts, died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary yesterday from injuries received early in the morning while at work in Hassockridge Colliery, Shotts. Duffy sustained a broken leg, with arm and shoulder injuries, when the machine “kicked.” At Calderhead Colliery, Shotts, yesterday, John Watters, 27 years of age, residing at Torbothic Road, Shotts, an oncost worker, sustained a fractured thigh bone through being thrown off a haulage bogey. He was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 8 May 1936]