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Surname
CUNNINGHAME
Forename
Thomas
Day
31
Month
10
Year
1906
Age
10
Occupation
Schoolboy
Mine/Quarry Name
Tranent
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Waldie & Sons
Location
Tranent
County
Haddingtonshire
Details of Event
While the colliery locomotive was approaching the weighbridge with a train of loaded waggons the boy attempted to jump on a waggon of the moving train, and missing his hold fell on the rails and the last waggon wheels passed over him.