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Surname
HUNTER
Forename
Joseph
Day
20
Month
12
Year
1911
Age
37
Occupation
Haulageman
Mine/Quarry Name
Tillcoultry
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Alloa Coal Co. Ltd
Location
County
Clackmannanshire
Details of Event
He was riding down a dook in the third hutch of a rake of twenty hatches, when the coupling of the eighth hutch became detached from the draw-bar hook, causing the eight front hutches to run away. Hunter was found crushed between two hutches near the foot of the dook.