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Surname
BENNIE
Forename
Matthew
Day
20
Month
12
Year
1914
Age
20
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Meadowbank
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
James Nimmo & Co. Ltd
Location
Polmont
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
When starting an electrically-driven coal cutting machine into its cut, he threw the switch at once into the full-on position. The disc caught into the coal and caused the machine to swing violently across the face, and he either fell or was thrown on to the disc. He was so severely injured that he died about 4 ½ hours later.