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Surname
HODGE
Forename
Alexander
Day
21
Month
12
Year
1902
Age
56
Occupation
Foreman
Mine/Quarry Name
Straiton Quarry
Mineral Worked
Limestone
Owner
Clippens Lime Co. Ltd
Location
Straiton
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
The limestone is lowered by means of a very steep self-acting inclined plane and deceased and a miner pushed over a loaded tub in the absence of the man who attended to the brake at the wheel with the result that the loaded tub ran rapidly down and deceased, in attempting to escape from the ascending empty tub ran in its way and was struck by it causing him to be thrown violently forward whereby his face came into contact with a stone inflicting injuries to which he succumbed three days afterwards.