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Surname
JAPP
Forename
James
Day
16
Month
08
Year
1901
Age
65
Occupation
Fireman
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
A miner was taking a cut off the inbye side of a stoop in a seam 5ft 10in in thickness. Hearing the roof of the working at the level road he went out and set some timber and doing so deceased approached from the outbye side. The miner reported what had happened and deceased passed inbye tapping the roof s hammer. He had only gone a few yards when a triangular stone 5ft by 2ft 3in. at extremes and 9in in thickness fell from a lype hitherto unseen and killed him instantly.