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Surname
McDONALD
Forename
Ellis
Day
09
Month
10
Year
1933
Age
35
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Polmaise, Nos 3 & 4 Pits
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell Ltd
Location
Fallin
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
Fell down shaft. A Cambusbarron man met with a terrible death at Fallin Colliery on Monday night (9 October 1933). About 6.00 pm Ellis McDonald (35), Underground Fireman, Main Street, Cambusbarron, was working on the landing in the shaft at No 3 Polmaise Colliery, Fallin, when he stumbled and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of about 300 feet. He was immediately brought to the surface room where he was examined by Dr King, Bannockburn, who pronounced life extinct. His injuries were a broken neck, fractures of both legs and fracture of right arm. McDonald was a married man. (Stirling Journal).