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Surname
KERR
Forename
David
Day
28
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
19
Occupation
Filler
Mine/Quarry Name
Starlaw Deans, No.3
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Deans
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
These men were stooping pillars alongside a fault and a certain area of oil shale had been taken out and the root allowed to fall in the waste. A haulier named Robert Kerr wished to fire a shot in a pillar, went partly up a fall in the waste to see how thick the rib of the remaining portion of the pillar was when his naked light in his cap ignited firedamp which had been allowed to accumulate, severely burning himself the deceased, David Kerr, who was close to him and William Jack who was working at a pillar at the other end of the waste 120 feet away. David Kerr died on December last and William Jack on January 2nd. 2 killed.