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Surname
HAGGIE
Forename
John
Day
21
Month
02
Year
1910
Age
28
Occupation
Undermanager
Mine/Quarry Name
Cousland, No.2
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Seafield
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
A fireman had found gas at a waste "break" in an abandoned level when making his first inspection and the deceased and the fireman were making another inspection of the place when the explosion took place. The fireman was on the top of fall and Haggle was following him; the former put his safety lamp up to where the gas was when there was an explosion and both were burned about the face and hands. Haggie died on the 20th.