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Surname
McKENZIE
Forename
Hugh
Day
30
Month
05
Year
1929
Age
Occupation
Pithead Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Wallyford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd
Location
Mussleburgh
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
30 May 1929: Musselburgh Pithead fatality - Hugh M'Kenzie, a pithead worker, unmarried, who resided in Wallyford, was instantaneously killed while at work drawing hutches of rubbish off the cage at Wallyford Colliery, Musselburgh. Winding manipulation to adjust the cage to surface level was proceeding, when the shaft protection gate, which had been hoisted, descended and struck M'Kenzie on the neck. [Scotsman 31 May 1929]