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Surname
ATKINSON
Forename
Henry
Day
29
Month
12
Year
1922
Age
69
Occupation
Shale Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Pumpherston, No.5 Mine
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Uphall
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
Sundries - He was in the act of taking down coal when a piece of “fallen“ struck him on the right foot, causing a slight wound on the large toe. The injury was not immediately reported and attended to. He died from blood poisoning 10 days later. Sundries - He was approaching the face in a steep place with a charge of gunpowder to charge a shot hole which he had drilled when some shale tipped from the waste above him and knocked out two long props, one of which may have struck him and knocked him down or caused him to fall. He was found dead by his son, the two props lying across his legs. His skull had been fractured by the fall and death was instantaneous.