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Surname
BRUCE
Forename
Robert
Day
07
Month
06
Year
1910
Age
18
Occupation
Coal Picker
Mine/Quarry Name
Coursington
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wishaw Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Motherwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Owing to a chain breaking the screening machinery was stopped. He went from his place of work and climbed up to near where there were some gear wheels, and was talking and smoking with another lad when the machinery started and his feet were drawn into the wheels. He had no right to be where he was.