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Surname
IRVINE
Forename
Charles
Day
27
Month
05
Year
1939
Age
19
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Valleyfield
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newmills
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
27 May 1939: Youth's 40 Feet Fall Ends Fatally - The death occurred, in Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital on Saturday of Charles Irvine (19), 19 Burns Street, High Valleyfield , as a result of injuries which he received at the pithead of Valleyfield Colliery on May 15; He fell from a platform leading to the screening plant on to a railway line, distance of 40 feet, and was removed to hospital suffering from head injuries. [Scotsman 29 May 1939]