Full Details
- Surname
- BROWN
- Forename
- Samuel
- Day
- 05
- Month
- 12
- Year
- 1910
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Brusher
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Giffnock
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Giffnock Collieries Ltd
- Location
- Thornliebank
- County
- Renfrewshire
- Details of Event
- He was charging a hole with gelignite, and was pushing in the last of 27 cartridges and a detonator into the shot hole with a copper stemmer, when it exploded and killed him.
