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Details of Event: 5 February 1916: Fatal Accident At A Fife Colliery - Alexander Clunie, brusher, Reid Street, Dunfermline, was fatally injured on Saturday morning in the shaft of Dean Pit, Kingseat colliery. At one of the bottoms where the cage stopped he fell from the vehicle, which, moving away, crushed him against the side of the shaft causing injuries which proved almost instantaneously fatal. He was 31 years of age and married. [Scotsman 7 February 1916] Neglect To Use Gates- Pit Cage Is Subject of Rider By Dunfermline Jury – At a fatal accident inquiry at Dunfermline yesterday the jury passed a rider in regard to the practice of descending a pit-shaft without the gates of the cage being in use. The case under review was that of Alexander Clunie, miner, residing at 23 Reid Street, Dunfermline, who was killed in the shaft of the Dean Colliery, Kingseat, by his head being crushed between the roof of a descending cage and the plates at a midworking. Witnesses stated that when the mid-working level had been reached Clunie changed his position on the cage in order to improve the balance, when he got jammed. It was stated that the gates of the cage had been in disrepair, and were not being used. Miners occasionally used the cage without gates, although they had no authority for doing so. To their formal verdict the jury added the rider that the accident was due to neglect to use gates upon the cage. [Dundee Courier 3 March 1916]