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Surname
DICKSON
Forename
James
Day
15
Month
03
Year
1907
Age
42
Occupation
Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Aitken
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
In order to take away this debris to this redd bing with the least possible delay as it is raised from this shaft, an aerial ropeway was erected and close by the pit was a large hopper with a capacity to hold 90 tons of debris. By means of shoots, the debris was filled into buckets, and the buckets were carried by a rope to the redd bing. While this work of filling the buckets was in progress this structure collapsed, and deceased was buried among this debris. The cause of this collapse was due to a cross-beam of wood breaking at a part which was defective but which could not be observed.