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Surname
YOUNG
Forename
Robert
Day
18
Month
12
Year
1912
Age
33
Occupation
Loco Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bothwell Park
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Bothwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Deceased was picking up pieces of coal, which had fallen from the screens, as the coal passed into the wagons, with which to fire the locomotive boiler, when a piece, weighing about 14lbs., fell upon his head, inflicting a wound. He died 18 days later from erysipelas.