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Surname
AITKEN
Forename
Hugh
Day
29
Month
12
Year
1934
Age
18
Occupation
Belt Cleaner
Mine/Quarry Name
Easton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Bathgate
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
29 December 1934: Man Killed In Bathgate Pit - Crushed by a stone which fell from the roof in Easton Pit, Bathgate, owned by Wm. Baird & Co. (Ltd.), Hugh Aitken, (18), 8 Burnside Place, Torphichen, was killed instantaneously. He had been employed cleaning the belts of a coal conveyor when the fall occurred, and he was jammed between the stone and the machine. [Scotsman 1 January 1935]