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Surname
CONOBOY
Forename
Thomas
Day
09
Month
02
Year
1917
Age
58
Occupation
Pithead Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumphinnans, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
9 February 1917: Pithead Labourer Killed - Thomas Conoboy (58), pithead labourer, 9 Beveridge Place, Lumphinnans, met with serious injuries yesterday from which he died later in the day at Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. Conoboy was engaged on a scaffold or gangway between the pithead and the redd bing of No.1 Pit, Lumphinnans, when as the result of a wire rope slipping a drum and breaking, four hutches ran back and struck him before he could get clear. [Dunfermline Journal 10 February 1917]