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Surname
MILLAR
Forename
Alexander McIntosh
Day
12
Month
12
Year
1932
Age
Occupation
Pack Builder
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Falls of Roof at Working Face - At Bowhill Colliery, Fifeshire, on December 8, a pack-builder was standing on fallen stones in the waste two or three feet behind the last row of supports when he was struck by a large stone which fell from the roof and injured him fatally. It was sometimes necessary to blast the roof in the waste to get stone for pack building and one shot had already been fired for that purpose. He was making an inspection to decide upon the position for another shot hole and should have remained under cover of the supported roof. [From Inspector of Mines Report for 1932]