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Surname
McDOWALL
Forename
John
Day
06
Month
01
Year
1914
Age
26
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was passing down a brae when a fall occurred, without warning, which imprisoned him, without apparently seriously injuring him. Efforts were made to liberate him, but before this could be done a second fall occurred, which killed him. The place where the accident occurred was a low part of the roadway at the face of some back brushing, It had lowered appreciably during the holidays, so touch so that several of the full hutches came into contact with the roof timbering whilst the rakes were being run, and a bar secured to the top of an empty rake had struck it with some violence As this was only a short time before the first fall it probably had a good deal to do with it. The roof above was very bad.