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Surname
COPELAND
Forename
John
Day
02
Month
05
Year
1931
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochore, Mary No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochore
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
2 May 1931: Lochore Colliery Fatality - Miner Struck By Fall of Roof - A Crosshill Miner, John Copeland (45), 3 John Street, has succumbed in Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital to injuries received owing to roof fall at No 2 Mary Pit, Lochore Colliery. Copeland sustained a fracture to the base of the skull and other injuries. He was attended at the pithead by Dr Sinclair, and removed to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. [Dunfermline Journal 9 May 1931] John Copeland died 2 May 1931