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Details of Event: 4 November 1928: A Fatal Pick Injury - Consideration was given by the court [FAI at Dunfermline Sheriff Court] to the circumstances attending the death of William Keir, miner, 32 Eleventh Street, Bowhill, who died on 4 November 1928 at Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital from septicaemia resulting from an injury to his left leg received on October 1 in the course of his employment in No 2 Pit of Bowhill Colliery. John Forsyth, miner, Twelfth Street, Bowhill, explained that one day when he was working along with Keir, he sustained a pick injury to his leg. Keir told him that he thought the pick had injured the bone. Deceased, however, continued in his work for three days, but the wound became so painful he had to knock off. John Keir, 32 Eleventh Street, Bowhill, father of the deceased man, said that when his son came home on 1st October 1928, he said he had got a jag on the leg with a pick. The wound was just below the knee. It did not look very bad at the time, but it got very painful, and after three days his son had to stay at home from his work. He called the doctor, and was ultimately sent to the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. His leg was amputated on 1st November, and he died on 4th November from blood poisoning. The jury returned a formal verdict. [Dunfermline Journal 2 February 1929]