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Surname
HOTCHKISS
Forename
Harry
Day
30
Month
08
Year
1941
Age
18
Occupation
Apprentice
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath Central Workshops
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
30 August 1941: Apprentice Killed by Electric Cable - Harry Hotchkiss (18), employed in Fife Coal Company central workshop, Cowdenbeath, was fatally electrocuted early this morning. Hotchkiss, along with other apprentices, was enjoying the usual half-hour break at two o'clock by indulging a game of hide and seek. He could not be found when work was resumed. A search was made, but it was some time before his dead body was found on the platform of the large travelling electric crane, having come in contact with an electric cable, which caused instantaneous death. Hotchkiss, the son of Mr Hotchkiss, Foulford Road, Cowdenbeath, was an air-raid messenger. This is the first fatal accident that has taken place in the workshop since the building was erected in 1926. [Evening Telegraph 30 August 1941]