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Surname
CAMPBELL
Forename
Patrick
Day
06
Month
08
Year
1910
Age
28
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Hillhouserigg
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Baton Collieries Ltd
Location
Shotts
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
The shaft in which this accident occurred, had recently been sunk from the Gas coal to the Mill coal seam, a distance of 48 fathoms. A pump was placed on a scaffold 12 feet above the Mill coal seam, fitted wills a hose suction pipe the hose was leaking, and the deceased and another sinker went down the shaft and replaced it with another. They were on the cage and were going to the pump scaffold and gave the signal ‘one’ and he proceeded to get out but as he was doing so the cage was taken away and he was fatally crushed. The engineman mistook the second signal to take the cage to the surface.