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Surname
MELROSE
Forename
Harry
Day
01
Month
06
Year
1927
Age
29
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Newtongrange, Lingerwood Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lothian Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Newtongrange
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
1 June 1927: Fatality At A Midlothian Pit - While drawing props in Lingerwood pit, Newbattle, yesterday, Harry Melrose, a brusher, was crushed by a fall of stone from the coal workings. Death was instantaneous. Melrose was 29 years of age, and resided at 31 Fifth Street, Newtongrange. [Scotsman 2 June 1927] Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1927: Falls of roof: At Newbattle Colliery (Lingerwood Pit), Edinburgh, on 1st June, a brusher was, along with another man, withdrawing steel props and straps from the waste behind a conveyor on a coal cutting and conveyor longwall face in a seam 7 ft. thick. He apparently had difficulty in getting one of the last props out and went in to the waste side of the prop and was loosening it when a fall of roof occurred which killed him. There was a Sylvester prop withdrawer some 40 yards away and this ought to have been used : the man and his mate were using pick and hammer.