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Surname
DOUGRAY
Forename
James
Day
30
Month
10
Year
1907
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased worked on the back shift, in a level of a seam being opened out mid-way in the shaft. There were no gates to fence the opening but a bar was placed across during the fore shift, when no one was in the seam, and the bar was taken off when the back shift commenced and left on during the whole time the shift was at work. At stopping time deceased came from the face with a loaded tub, and evidently thinking the cage was there pushed it into the open shaft and he and it were precipitated to the bottom a distance of 67 fathoms.