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Surname
BAXTER
Forename
William
Day
14
Month
02
Year
1925
Age
62
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Lumphinnans, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
14 February 1925: Lumphinnans Pit Fatality – Miner's Tragic Death – The Fife mining industry, and aged miner William Baxter, 62 years of age, who resided at Cowden Place, Hill of Beath. Baxter was employed in the fourteen feet seam of No.1 Pit, Lumphinnans Colliery, on Tuesday of last week, when he was struck by a fall from the roof. When he was extricated from below the fallen material it was seen he was in a serious condition, but it was not thought that the injuries would prove fatal. He was removed to at once to the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital, where he passed away last Saturday morning. Deceased was a widower, and leaves a grown-up family. One of his sons was a centre-half for two years with Cowdenbeath, and also played for Hearts of Beath. [Dunfermline Journal 21st February 1925]