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Surname
CUMMINGS
Forename
John Hart
Day
14
Month
11
Year
1964
Age
Occupation
Miner's Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Valleyfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
National Coal Board
Location
Newmills
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
John Hart Cummings, miner, 60 Craigmyle Street, Dunfermline, died on 14 Nov 1964 at Valleyfield Colliery, Parish of Culross, Fife, when a number of loaded mine cars ran away from a loading point and collided with two empty mine cars which were being pushed from the pit bottom by a diesel locomotive driven by him"