Full Details

Surname

SWAN

Forename

Robert

Day

13

Month

11

Year

1908

Age

34

Occupation

Pitheadman

Mine/Quarry Name

Newbattle

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Lothian Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Newtongrange

County

Edinburghshire

Details of Event

Deceased was engaged sending bricks from he lower scaffold at surface to the pit bottom, and loaded the bricks into the tubs on the cage he signalled the cage with empty tubs to lower scaffold, and went forward to the shaft to open the gate where cage was but inadvertently opened the wrong gate and fell into the shaft.