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Surname
MARSHALL
Forename
David
Day
23
Month
11
Year
1937
Age
Occupation
Oncost worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Woodend
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Coltness Iron Co. Ltd
Location
Armadale
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
23 November 1937: Railway Line Fatality - Pit Boy Severely Mutilated - On Tuesday afternoon, a youth named David Marshall, 33 Westrigg, Blackridge, was run over by several waggons of a mineral train near Woodend Colliery, and was so severely injured that he died within an hour of admission to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. Marshall was engaged as a worker at Woodend Colliery. It is understood that he fell over a rail and before he could recover himself the waggons passed over both his legs and his right arm. [West Lothian Courier 26 November 1937]