Full Details

Surname

SOMMERVILLE

Forename

William

Day

10

Month

04

Year

1912

Age

59

Occupation

Roadsman

Mine/Quarry Name

Wilsontown, No.3 Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

William Dixon Ltd

Location

Forth

County

Lanarkshire

Details of Event

He was working on a dook with a gradient of 1 in 8, when a hutch, which had been left snibbled on the rails 60 yards above, was started by the friction of the haulage rope, and ran down the dook and struck him. He died on the 13th inst.