Full Details

Surname

WADE

Forename

George

Day

08

Month

11

Year

1962

Age

Occupation

Mineral Borer

Mine/Quarry Name

Barony

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

National Coal Board

Location

Auchinleck

County

Ayrshire

Details of Event

Fall of Ground killed 4. John McNeil, colliery deputy, 48 Hannahston Avenue, Drongan, Ayrshire, Henry Green, colliery oversman, 47 Netherthird Road, Cumnock, Ayrshire, George Wade, mineral borer, 36 Newlands Terrace, Carluke, Lanarkshire and Thomas Carlyle Fyvie, mineral borer, 94 New Road, Ayr, all died on 8 Nov 1962 at Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, when they were overwhelmed and killed by an inrush of sludge"