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Surname
HENIGAN
Forename
Michael
Day
13
Month
02
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Pit Sinker
Mine/Quarry Name
Wellesley
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Methil
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
13 February 1929: Denbeath Colliery Fatality - The operations at the sinking of a new shaft to the Wellesley Colliery, Denbeath, for the Wemyss Coal Company, were attended by a fatal accident on Wednesday morning. One of the pit sinkers, Thomas Hinnigan, lost his balance on the scaffold and fell a distance of 150ft. Deceased, who belonged to Ireland, was in lodgings in Methil, and it is understood he was almost at the end of his engagement, the shaft being nearly finished. [Dunfermline Journal 16 February 1929] Fife Colliery Fatalities - An inquiry into the death of Michael Hannigan, pit sinker, 233 Wellesley Road, Methil, who fell a distance of 255 feet through the breaking of a plank in the Wellesley Colliery, was held by Sheriff Dudley Stuart and a jury at Kirkcaldy on Friday. John Brown, manager of the colliery, said that a shaft had just been sunk, and the men were engaged in taking out compressed air pipes. The men were standing on a platform, and while one of the other men was engaged in loosening the pipes, the pipe jerked down to the platform on which Hannigan was standing, and broke the plank. Hannigan fell 265 feet. A formal verdict was returned. [Dunfermline Journal 30 March 1929] NB Death certificate spells name as Michael Henigan