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Surname
DUFF
Forename
Robert
Day
13
Month
10
Year
1932
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Valleyfield, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newmills
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
13 October 1932: FIFE MINING FATALITIES - COURT INQUIRIES AT DUNFERMLINE - Father Killed While Working With Son - A Dunfermline miner told at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to-day how his father was killed by a roof fall while they were working together. Sheriff Umpherston and a jury conducted inquiries into six recent fatal accidents in West Fife. The man who was killed before his son's eyes was Robert Duff, miner, 24 Rumblingwell, Dunfermline. He was killed on 13th October by a roof fall in No.2 Pit of Valleyfield Colliery. Donald Duff, miner, 24 Rumblingwell, Dunfermline, the son of the deceased man, said he was working along with his father. They went down the pit about half-past one. His father was making needle holes in the coal sides when a big fall came away from the roof and he was dead when the fall was cleared away. The fall took place before four o'clock, and it was after seven before his father was got out. A formal verdict was returned. [Evening Telegraph 15 December 1932]