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- Surname
- HALDANE
- Forename
- David
- Day
- 19
- Month
- 05
- Year
- 1915
- Age
- Occupation
- Washer Engineman
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Aitken
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Fife Coal Co. Ltd
- Location
- Kelty
- County
- Fifeshire
- Details of Event
- 19 May 1915: Accident At A Coal Washer - On Wednesday afternoon while in the act of oiling a coal washer at the Aitken Pit, Kelty, David Haldane, washer engineman, residing at 144 Union Street, Cowdenbeath, had his sleeve caught in one of the pinion wheels. His arm was dragged in and badly lacerated and fractured. The machinery was at once stopped. The injured man, who was attended to by Dr Keay, was removed to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. [Dunfermline Journal 22 May 1915]
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