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Surname
HOGG
Forename
Peter
Day
16
Month
05
Year
1922
Age
51
Occupation
Assistant Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Mossbeath, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
17 May 1922: Miner Killed at Cowdenbeath - Peter Hogg who resided at Back Row, Crossgates, was accidentally killed early yesterday morning in the Little Splint seam of No.1 pit, Mossbeath Colliery Cowdenbeath. He was caught and crushed by a coal-cutting machine. Hogg was a married man. [Scotsman 18 May 1922] Machinery – He was steadying the newly set haulage tree about 3 ft in front of a bar coal cutting machine, which was about to cut through a nose of coal “bar first,” until the tree should be tightened by the strain on the rope. While doing so he allowed his foot to get too close to the revolving bar, and the picks caught his boot and pulled him in, injuring him so severely that he died in a few minutes. Men should not be allowed to work in such dangerous positions.