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Surname
CRAWFORD
Forename
Andrew
Day
07
Month
09
Year
1910
Age
62
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Elphinstone
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Edinburgh Collieries Ltd
Location
Tranent
County
Haddingtonshire
Details of Event
He attempted to get into a cage at the surface level without a banksman being present, when the engineman, who did not know he was going to, started the cage, and it caught and knocked him into the shaft and he fell to the bottom, a distance of 300 feet.