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Surname
DUNCAN
Forename
John Stenhouse
Day
29
Month
12
Year
1927
Age
19
Occupation
Pony Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Glencraig, No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
1 January 1928: Glencraig and Lochore – Accident – A young man named John Duncan, age 19, residing at Flockhouse, Lochore, sustained a fractured spine and other internal injuries as the result of an accident on Wednesday in Glencraig No.2 Pit. He was removed to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. [Dunfermline Journal 8 January 1927] John Stenhouse Duncan died 1 January 1928, age 20. Fatal Accidents In West Fife - Circumstances Examined at Dunfermline. - Five Cases Before the Court. - Inquiry was held at Dunfermline to-day into five fatal accidents which took place at Inverkeithing, Cowdenbeath, Lochgelly, and two at Glencraig Colliery. Sheriff Umpherston and a jury at Dunfermline considered the circumstances. The victims of the accidents and the apparent causes of death were as follows: ………… John Stenhouse Duncan, pony driver, lately residing at Flockhouse, Auchterderran, who died 1st January 1928, in the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital from injuries received on 29th December, 1926, in No.2 Pit of Glencraig Colliery by being crushed between a wall and a rake of hutches to which a pony was yoked. [Evening Telegraph 12 January 1928]