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Surname
MacGREGOR
Forename
George
Day
22
Month
08
Year
1923
Age
Occupation
Steerer
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosewell
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Location
Rosewell
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
22 August 1923: Foden Engine Overturns - Driver's Fatal Injuries. - Workmen were engaged yesterday in removing a Foden engine and waggon which had overturned at an embankment near Rosewell colliery on Tuesday. The steerer, George Macgregor, belonging to Liberton, had a leg broken while trying to get his engine past, a farm binder, the Foden swerving to the left and knocking down a telegraph post before it overturned. Macgregor was removed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the Whitehall colliery ambulance, where it was found that he was also seriously injured internally and he passed away in the Infirmary about six hours after being admitted. [Scotsman 23 August 1923]