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Surname
COOPER
Forename
John
Day
15
Month
11
Year
1921
Age
25
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Wellesley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Methil
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
15 November 1921: A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the Wellesley colliery of the Wemyss Coal Company, Denbeath. The men attending a coal-cutting ;machine had occasion to swing it round to a fresh part of the face when John-Cooper (25) was struck by the bar, and sustained injuries to which he succumbed later in the day in the Hospital. Cooper was unmarried, the son of Mr. W .Cooper Buckhaven. [Scotsman 16 November 1921] Fatality At Denbeath - John Cooper (26), Erskine Street, Buckhaven, while at work in Wellesley Colliery, Denbeath, was caught with the bar of a coal-cutting machine and sustained such injuries that he died in Wemyss Memorial Hospital shortly after his admission. [Dunfermline Journal 19 November 1921]