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Surname
BAXTER
Forename
David
Day
15
Month
05
Year
1933
Age
16
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Herbertshire, Woodyett Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd
Location
Denny
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
15 May 1933: Boy Miner Falls Down Pit Shaft - At the Woodyett Pit of the Herbertshire Colliery, Denny, yesterday afternoon, when the men were being raised to the surface at the finish of their shift, a young miner, David Baxter (16 1/2), son of Thomas Baxter, Broomridge Terrace, Dennyloanhead, fell out of the lower deck of the cage down the shaft. Apparently the gate of the cage gave way. The body of the boy was found later in the sump at the pit bottom. The shaft is about 600 feet deep, and the cage is stated to have been nearing the surface at the time the accident happened. [Scotsman 16 May 1933]