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Surname
GRIEVE
Forename
Frederick Henry
Day
15
Month
12
Year
1925
Age
14
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Manor Powis
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Manor Powis Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Causewayhead
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1925: Sundries At Manor Powis Colliery Stirling, a boy of 14 years having nothing to do at the moment, put his head and shoulders through a broken window pane in the washer and grasped an aerial lighting cable 20in from the window, thereby receiving a fatal shock. Register of FAI - killed almost instantaneously by putting his hand through a broken window and getting hold of the aerial cable for the lighting system