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Surname
ALEXANDER
Forename
John
Day
07
Month
11
Year
1902
Age
33
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Newliston Mine
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Kirkliston
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another workman put up a cuddie wheel to run the shale to the level below. In running the first tub some difficulty was experienced and they assisted by the near who worked in the place began to pull the chain when the whole erection collapsed and he was struck by a falling prop and killed instantaneously. The instructions to deceased and his neighbour who erected all the cuddie wheels in the mine were to stamp the legs into roof and pavement but on the suggestion of the mine who was in a hurry they put a crown to the roof and drove the legs hard on it instead of stamping the roof as instructed.