Full Details

Surname

SMITH

Forename

Alexander

Day

07

Month

08

Year

1913

Age

32

Occupation

Assistant Machineman

Mine/Quarry Name

Giffnock

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Giffnock Collieries Ltd

Location

Thornliebank

County

Renfrewshire

Details of Event

He was engaged replacing the blunt picks on the disc of a coal cutter with sharp ones, and when the disc began to revolve so that the part under the holing, where the blunt picks were, should be brought outside, the picks apparently struck the coal and the machine rebounded, causing the end next where deceased was to strike him and throw him on to the disc, which drew him to the coal and inflicted terrible injuries, from which he died.