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Surname
BARTIE
Forename
Hamilton
Day
27
Month
05
Year
1913
Age
27
Occupation
Shaftsman
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochore, Mary Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochore
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
They were riding on the top of the cage which was loaded with timber, for the purpose of attending to some air rhones which were being sent down on top the cage. The engineman failed to check the speed of the descending cage, which crashed into the pit bottom. There was no overwinding prevention contrivance fitted to the winding engine. Leadbeatter died on the way to the Aitken Colliery, to which he was being conveyed underground, a few hours later, and Bartie died on the 10th June. 3 killed.