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Surname
ANDERSON
Forename
Alexander
Day
19
Month
02
Year
1924
Age
14
Occupation
Bogieman
Mine/Quarry Name
Allanton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Barr & Sons (Coalmasters) Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
19 February 1924: An Allanton Colliery Accident – Of the eight fatal accident inquiries at Hamilton on Wednesday, all the verdicts by the jury were formal except that in the case of Alexander Anderson, bogieman, 32 New Street, Birkenshaw, who met his death recently while employed in Allanton Colliery, Ferniegair. Anderson was 14 years of age. In the case Mr James Murdoch, of the Lanarkshire Mine Workers' Union, represented the relatives of the deceased boy, and asked that a rider be added to the jury's verdict stating that there had been gross carelessness on the part of someone in not instructing this boy and his fellow worker – another boy – in their duties. The boys had been attending to running hutches when an accident occurred and their lights went out. They did not known how to stop the hutches. The jury accepted the proposed rider, and also suggested that an older person should have been with the boys. [Hamilton Advertiser 29 March 1924]