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Surname
McDONNELL
Forename
James
Day
30
Month
09
Year
1910
Age
26
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Starlaw Deans
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Deans
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
He was boring a shot hole at the face and the drawer was filling the hutches. The gradient was 1 in 2.5 and the hutches were resting against a prop the prop slipped and the hutches ran forward and crushed him against the face.