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Surname
MAXWELL
Forename
Janet
Day
22
Month
12
Year
1903
Age
14
Occupation
Stone Picker
Mine/Quarry Name
Kinneil
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bo'ness
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
Deceased was employed to pick dirt from amongst the coal on a travelling band 30ft. by 4ft. which conveyed it from the screen to the trucks and which was driven by a horizontal shaft parallel to and 3ft. 9ins. distant from it. He was standing with her back towards the shaft when her clothing was apparently caught by the head of a pinching pin in a thrust collar on the shaft and she was carried round several times with it receiving injuries which terminated fatally on the following day. Female.