| 1959,
5th February
JOHN MCMURDO
SANQUHAR COLLIERY FATALITY
Haulage Worker Struck By Falling Stone
The people of Sanquhar were shocked at the week-end when a well-known
local man, Mr John McMurdo (56), 29 Forsyth Avenue, died in the Dumfries
and Galloway Royal Infirmary as the result of injuries received in
an accident at Gateside Colliery three days earlier.
Mr McMurdo, who was employed as a haulage worker at the colliery,
had only restarted work four days prior to the accident after a spell
of illness.
On Thursday he was assisting another workman, George Newlands, with
the erection of a steel girder on the haulage road in Sunnyside section
of the colliery when a stone fell from the roof and pinned him to
the ground.
After receiving medical attention at the colliery he was removed by
ambulance to the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, where he died
on Sunday night. He suffered from a compound fracture of the pelvis
and other internal injuries.
Dumfries & Galloway Standard 11/02/1959 / W / 5 / D - MM82A
Fatality At Gateside Pit
Sanquhar was shocked by the death of a well known local man, John
McMurdo, aged 56 years of 29 Forsyth Avenue, in Dumfries and Galloway
Royal Infirmary as a result of injuries received in an accident at
Gateside Colliery three days earlier.
John, who was employed as a haulage worker at the colliery, had only
been restarted nine days after a spell of illness, and on Thursday
he was assisting another workman, George Newlands, with the erection
of a steel girder on the haulage road in Sunnyside Section of the
colliery when a stone fell from the roof and pinned him to the ground.
After receiving medical attention at the colliery he was removed by
ambulance to Dumfries Infirmary where he died on Sunday night. He
suffered from a compound fracture of the pelvis and other internal
injuries.
Nithsdale Observer, Friday, 13th February, 1959 -
MM82
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