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Surname
BEGBIE
Forename
Alexander
Day
05
Month
07
Year
1900
Age
32
Occupation
Pitheadman
Mine/Quarry Name
Deans
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Deans
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
Some water was being drawn from the bottom of a pit sinking to the Houston Coal in a barrel attached to the winding rope. As the barrel was raised from the bottom its lip caught the lower edge of the barring jerking the rope and causing it to oscillate somewhat violently in the shaft. Deceased. who was standing at the striking scaffold at pithead put out his hand to steady the rope. but missed it overbalanced and fell to the bottom of the shaft 108 feet below striking the barrel in his descent. His skull was fractured.