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Surname
FOULIS
Forename
David
Day
17
Month
07
Year
1902
Age
42
Occupation
Platelayer
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another were carrying timber through a gap in a train of empty trucks standing in a siding. A number of loaded trucks were shunted into the same siding and on buffering against the standing trucks closed the gap and crushed deceased between the buffers causing injuries which terminated fatally two hours afterwards.