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Surname
FERGUSON
Forename
Fergus
Day
18
Month
05
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Demolition Man
Mine/Quarry Name
Muirbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Henry Ness & Co. Ltd
Location
Dunfermline
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
18 May 1915: Glasgow Man's Terrible Death At Muirbeath - Fergus Ferguson, residing in Glasgow, who was employed by William Glen, building material merchant, Comeley Park Street, Glasgow, to dismantle the pithead frame at Muirbeath Colliery, was killed there on Tuesday. While engaged at the top of the frame, he attached two wire ropes to the legs for the purpose of binding them together. On one of the frames being released both frames collapsed and he was precipitated to the ground, a distance of 50 feet. Death was instantaneous. He was a married man and leaves eight of a family. [Dunfermline Journal 22 May 1915]