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Surname
DONALDSON
Forename
John
Day
07
Month
04
Year
1922
Age
40
Occupation
Surface Foreman
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath, No.7 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
On Surface – By Machinery – He was starting the screening plant engine which had centred. After opening the throttle valve he was turning the fly wheel by hand, and when the engine got off the centre it ran faster than he expected. He was pulled forward and pitched down through a hole in the floor on to the sidings, 12 ft below, alighting on his head, and sustaining a fracture of the skull and a fracture of the right arm. He never regained consciousness and died about 12 hours later.