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Surname
HERD
Forename
Robert
Day
02
Month
03
Year
1906
Age
55
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosie
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Buckhaven
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another repairer were engaged in doing some necessary repairs in a section of Weymss coal and he hauled the debris in tubs to the dook haulage read by means of a horse and was proceeding outbye with a loaded rake when he met his accident. No one saw the accident but two workmen on their way home discovered deceased under the first tub of the rake quite dead. From the position in which deceased was found it is supposed that the rake was running at a high speed outbye on a gradient of 1 in 20 when the two leading tubs left the rails and up-ended, and that he was endeavouring to detach the horse’s tail chain when the weight of the tubs behind caused the tub to move towards the pavement and crushed his head.