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Surname
FLEMING
Forename
William
Day
19
Month
09
Year
1919
Age
Occupation
Pit-bottom Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Mid Breich, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Blackburn
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
19 September 1919: Boy Killed in a West Calder Pit - Yesterday morning a boy named William Fleming, son of Mr Fleming, Mossend, West Calder, was killed in Breich Shale Pit. He had fallen between a rake of full hutches in motion, and they passed over his body. The lad had just left school and started work in the pit this week. [Scotsman 20 September 1919] Newspaper report - Lothians pages "William Fleming Junior, pit-bottom worker, 15 Front Street, Mossend, West Calder, died on 19 September 1919 in No.1 Mid Breich Pit, Livingston Parish, Linlithgowshire, when he was crushed between a rake of hutches and the side of the road"