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Surname
CAMPBELL
Forename
Archibald
Day
05
Month
09
Year
1937
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Earnock
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Watson Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
5 September 1937: A High Blantyre man, Archibald Campbell (45), 401 Main Street, was killed and two other miners were injured when an accident occurred yesterday at Earnock Colliery, Hamilton. The injured men are James Russell (22), 15 Waverley Street, Dunbank, Hamilton (fracture of the left arm and injuries to body), and John Gaffney (33), 41 Kenilworth Crescent, Dunbank, Hamilton (injuries to right side and thigh.) The injured men were removed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The accident occurred when the men were just about to finish their shift at the colliery yesterday afternoon. They were engaged in the Blackband section, and were moving a conveyer engine nearer the coal face, when a large stone fell from the roof. Campbell was crushed to the ground while Russell and Gaffney were struck by the stone. The two injured men just escaped death as the stone struck the conveyer engine, which served to prevent it from failing squarely upon them. A fourth man, James Walsh (25), 16 Purdie Street, Dunbank, Hamilton, also had a narrow escape. He was sitting beside Campbell, but the stone did not strike him in its fall. Walsh immediately went to his comrades' aid, and was assisted by other men working nearby. It was fully two hours, however, before they were able to extricate Campbell and the injured men. The stone measured 10 feet by 2 feet in thickness, and weighed about a ton. It was learned that the men had been employed in this section about only three weeks. [Scotsman 6 September 1937] Workmates' Tribute To Dead Miner - As a mark of sympathy for their dead comrade, the miners at Earnock Colliery, Hamilton, yesterday had an idle day, following the accident at the colliery on Sunday when a miner was killed and two were injured by a fall of stone. Mr James M'Kendrick, general secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners' Union, visited the colliery yesterday, and inspected the working place in his capacity as legal adviser to the workmen. [Scotsman 7 September 1937]