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Surname
LINDSAY
Forename
George
Day
25
Month
03
Year
1903
Age
16
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Mossbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and some others were descending to a midworking 33 fathoms above pit bottom on the lower deck of a double-decked cage while eight men were ascending on the opposite cage which was also double-decked. Owing to momentary forgetfulness the engineman ran the descending past the midlanding and then considered it safer to bring the ascending cage to pit bank and let the men off before reversing. When the men left its upper deck the pitheadman signalled to have the lower deck brought up to the landing and simultaneously the bottomer recognising that the men on the cage at pit bottom were mid-working men signalled the cage to be raised. Unfortunately at the same moment deceased attempted to jump off the cage bottom and was caught and crushed against the landing.