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Surname
METHVEN
Forename
John
Day
02
Month
01
Year
1925
Age
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Dunnikier
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kirkcaldy
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Information from the Inspectors of Mines - 1925: Roof fall At Dunnikier Colliery, Fife, a contractor brusher was preparing to set a bar to support the roof where a fall had occurred on a haulage road, when a bar, next the edge of the fall, broke and a stone fell on him. His spine was fractured and he died 23 days later. If a centre prop had been set as a temporary support to the bar, in accordance with the instructions posted at the pithead, the accident would probably have been avoided.