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Surname
GUNN
Forename
Edward
Day
14
Month
12
Year
1922
Age
26
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Prestongrange
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Summerlee Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Prestonpans
County
Haddingtonshire
Details of Event
Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – A large stone fell off the face of the brushing in a newly brushed roadhead, and, in falling, struck Gunn (who had just completed filling a hutch with coal) on the back of the head and fractured his skull. He died half-an-hour later.