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Surname
GRIBB or GRUBB
Forename
Richard
Day
13
Month
12
Year
1904
Age
33
Occupation
Shaftsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Dysart
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd
Location
Dysart
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another workman were ascending the shaft on the cage cover after doing some necessary work about a pump when a stone fell from the side of the shaft about 20 fathoms above and striking him he was knocked off the cage and fell into the shaft at the bottom of which were 20 fathoms of water. The part of the shaft from whence stone fell was not lined.