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Surname
ANDERSON
Forename
David
Day
29
Month
02
Year
1924
Age
21
Occupation
Pit Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Dewshill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Coltness Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
29 February 1924: Harthill Miner Falls Down Shaft - The death is reported from Salsburgh of David Anderson (21), pit bottomer, c/o Thomas Anderson (his uncle), Crossroads, Harthill, by falling down the shaft of Dewshill Colliery, where he was employed. He had been on the cage at the Ball coal seam bottom, along with a hutch of coal, when somehow he overbalanced and fell with the hutch to the sump, about 90 feet below. Death had been instantaneous. [Scotsman 4 March 1924]