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Surname
HEALY
Forename
Patrick
Day
15
Month
01
Year
1903
Age
21
Occupation
Loco. Shunter
Mine/Quarry Name
Denbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bowman & Co.
Location
Methil
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
The locomotive engine pushed part of a train of waggons into a siding off the main line giving the waggons sufficient impetus to enable them to clear crossing and as soon as the waggons had passed into siding deceased had held the points jumped on the engine. The locomotive then returned on the main line pushing the remaining part of the train in front and on reaching the crossing the engine caught part of a waggon just where deceased stood on the footplate fatally crushing him. The waggons in the siding had gradually moved back until the leading one fouled the crossing.