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| Date: | 11th May 1908 |
| Colliery: | Bothwell Castle, No. 3 |
| Company: | William Baird and Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust |
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 | McKay, George, aged 30, Repairer, Explosion of firedamp ignited by a defective gauze in the lamp which was inadvertently taken into the mine by the fireman after another fireman had broken the top of the gauze in the lamp-room, and had placed it on a shelf. The gas is supposed to have accumulated owing to the closing of an airway by a fall |
| | Tonner, John, aged 23, Fireman, Explosion of firedamp ignited by a defective gauze in the lamp which was inadvertently taken into the mine by the fireman after another fireman had broken the top of the gauze in the lamp-room, and had placed it on a shelf. The gas is supposed to have accumulated owing to the closing of an airway by a fall |
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