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Surname
GAFFNEY
Forename
Barclay
Day
04
Month
01
Year
1907
Age
37
Occupation
Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochore
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochore
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
The shaft sinking had been completed, and deceased with three other sinkers were engaged putting in the permanent pumps a service engine was in use to lower the material required and the cage on being raised to the surface was taken up to the pulley, striking a crossbeam and causing the chain connecting the rope to cage to break and cage went back down the shaft in its descent it wrecked the woodwork surrounding the shaft at the surface, and part of the wood fell down the shaft, and deceased who was standing on a bunton was struck and thrown off falling to the bottom.