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Surname
CUMMING
Forename
John
Day
28
Month
09
Year
1904
Age
42
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Lassodie Mill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Rosewell Gas Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and three other workmen arrived at the Dunfermline Splint coal to be lowered to their work by the engine. The rake consisted of five tubs and when the dook rope was attached to the last tub the men boarded the rate when the tubs were pushed over four of them ran amain and all managed to get out but deceased who was in the fourth, at 112 yards down they came to a standstill through some leaving the jails, and the fourth had struck a prop which carried away the body and threw deceased into a man-hole. The tubs had not been coupled. Had the management provided a safety chain this accident could not have happened.