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Surname
MACKIE
Forename
David
Day
29
Month
01
Year
1940
Age
41
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Polkemmet
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Dixon Ltd
Location
Whitburn
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
29 January 1940: Pit Roof Fall Casualty - When working yesterday in Polkemmet Colliery, Whitburn, owned by Wm. Dixon. Ltd, David Mackie, aged 41, repairer, of Jubilee Road, Whitburn, received a compound fracture of the leg and a fracture of the shoulder when he was pinned beneath a fall of roof. After receiving medical treatment, Mackie had to be carried a quarter of a mile to the Glasgow-Edinburgh road to be placed in a waiting ambulance waggon and conveyed to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 30 January 1940]