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- Surname
- HUNTER
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 17
- Month
- 05
- Year
- 1906
- Age
- 37
- Occupation
- Miner
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Ingliston
- Mineral Worked
- Oil Shale
- Owner
- Youngs Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd
- Location
- Kirkliston
- County
- Edinburghshire
- Details of Event
- Two shot holes were bored in the shale, charged with 1.5lb. of gunpowder, and white tape fuse was used one shot was in centre and one in bottom. Both shots missed and after waiting 40 minutes deceased returned and withdrew the stemming of the former recharged the hole and fired it. Later on he was unramming the latter when the charge exploded.
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