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Surname
LOWER
Forename
John
Day
14
Month
10
Year
1901
Age
51
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Oakbank
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Mid Calder
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
Deceased was taking out a stoop in a seam 6ft. 6ins. in thickness and had reduced it to a pillar about 12ft square. The left corner had been holed and left ungibbed for three days when as the shale did not break deceased set a gib under it extended the holing and bored and charged a shot hole. While drawing the gib preparatory to firing the shot the shale suddenly fell from an unseen lype and killed him instantaneously.