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- Surname
- COOPER
- Forename
- Thomas
- Day
- 06
- Month
- 06
- Year
- 1903
- Age
- 35
- Occupation
- Quarryman
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Battery Quarry
- Mineral Worked
- Whinstone
- Owner
- Alexander Brunton & Son
- Location
- North Queensferry
- County
- Fifeshire
- Details of Event
- The quarry has been worked in two lifts, floors each having a face about ? feet in height. Twelve months lot to the accident a quantity of tirr and rotten rock fell from the brow and formed a slope at the foot of the upper face. The lower face had reached the tail of this slope and while deceased and another were lifting some rock from the lower floor a stone fell from the slope referred to and struck deceased causing injuries which resulted fatally nineteen days afterwards.
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