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Surname
DUNSMUIR
Forename
Blair
Day
04
Month
08
Year
1927
Age
50
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitehill, Nos 1 & 2 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Cumnock
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
5 August 1927: Cumnock Man's Death - While working in the afternoon shift at Whitehill Colliery, Cumnock, on Thursday, Blair Dunsmuir (50), miner, Ayr Road, Cumnock, was struck by a falling stone and knocked into a moving coalcutter. He received terrible injuries to the back and arm, and was removed to the Bute Hospital, Cumnock. He died at two o 'clock yesterday morning. [Scotsman 6 August 1927]