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Surname
CLARK
Forename
James
Day
08
Month
01
Year
1914
Age
24
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Woolmet
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Portobello
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
He was walking into a level driven through old stoops when a flat piece of blaes roof fell without warning and killed him instantly. The timbering rules requiring crowns to be set every 5 feet on the roads is under roof of the kind which fell and if these had been set the accident would have been avoided.