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Surname
DYER
Forename
Campbell Nicol
Day
14
Month
05
Year
1932
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Minto, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
14 May 1932 FATAL ACCIDENTS IN FIFE - Inquiry Before Sheriff at Dunfermline - A Kirkcaldy seaman's death drowning at Rosyth and a Lochgelly pit fatality were subjects of inquiries conducted Sheriff Umpherston and a jury at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to-day. …………. Mining Fatality. - The other inquiry was with regard to the death of Campbell Nicol Dyer, miner, 186 South Street, Lochgelly, who was killed by a fall of stone from the roof of No 1 Pit Minto Colliery on May 14. John Crawford Dick, miner, 17 White Street, Lochgelly, said he was working in the same place as Dyer. Something attracted his attention and he saw Dyer underneath a large stone which had come away from the roof. He was dead when witness got him out. John Wallace, colliery fireman, 36 Park Street. Lochgelly, said he inspected the place half an hour before the accident and saw nothing wrong. The props were set at regulation distance. Walter Black, manager, Minto Colliery, said it was an accident for which no one could be blamed. Dyer was well within his propping distance. A formal verdict was returned. [Evening Telegraph 16 June 1932]