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Surname
GARRITY
Forename
Joseph
Day
27
Month
08
Year
1931
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochore, Mary No.2 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochore
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
28 August 1931: Killed By Roof Fall - The jury [at a FAI] next considered the case of Joseph Garrity, coal miner, 39 Richmond Place, Lochgelly, who died on 28th August in the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital from injuries sustained by him on 27th August in No.2 Mary Pit, Lochore, in the course of his employment as a brusher, being caught by a fall from the roof in his working place. Alexander Burden, brusher, 12a Hunter Street, Lochgelly, said deceased was knocking in a tree to support the roof when the back swing of the mash hammer he was using struck a prop, causing a considerable fall. Garrity was pretty badly injured about the legs, a stone three feet long by three feet thick having fallen on them. It was a pure mischance. A formal verdict was returned. [Dunfermline Journal 3 October 1931]