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Surname
GILFILLAN
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
07
Year
1928
Age
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Donibristle, James & Marion Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
2 July 1928: Pit Fatality. - The other inquiry related to the death of Robert Gilfillan, brusher, 319 Broad Street, Cowdenbeath, who died in Dunfermline Hospital from injuries sustained while employed in Donibristle Colliery, belonging the Fife Coal Company, by a stone falling on his right knee from the side of the working place. Deceased's son said that he was working with his father on the morning of June 7. A piece of iron-stone came away and struck his father on the knee. His father did not think much of it at the time and finished the shift, but next day h complained of pains in his right knee. He consulted a doctor, who told his father that he was suffering from rheumatism. Deceased had to lie off work on the 10th, and as he became worse he was taken to Dunfermline Hospital on June 17, and died there 15 days later. Dr Ruth Elizabeth Miller, Dunfermline, said that Gilfillan's knee was in a very bad condition when he came to the hospital and an operation had to be performed immediately. The original abrasion had become septic. [Evening Telegraph 26 July 1928]