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Surname
CALLAN
Forename
Robert
Day
06
Month
04
Year
1927
Age
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bardykes
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1927: Explosives: At Bardykes Colliery, Lanark, on 6th April, a coal cutting machineman was crawling along a coal face to get from one machine to another in order to obtain sharp picks. A brushing shot was fired just as he reached one of the roads and he was buried under the resulting fall of material and was killed. The fireman, who fired the shot, had shouted a warning, which he presumed the machineman and his mate, who were then at their machine, heard, but he did not wait for a reply. Other men beyond heard the warning shout and say it was loud and plain. This, however, is not the point in this accident, and likewise in some of the others of the non-fatal ones. The important point to note for all firemen and shotfirers, and for all persons who in naked light pits fire their own shots, is that a clear and definite duty is laid on them to see before firing the shot that all persons in the vicinity have taken proper shelter. They must also take suitable steps to prevent any person approaching the shot, i.e., all approaches to the shot must be guarded until the shot has exploded.