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Surname
MITCHELL
Forename
Andrew
Day
30
Month
10
Year
1906
Age
55
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Avochie Quarry
Mineral Worked
Granite
Owner
Robert Mitchell
Location
Huntly
County
Aberdeenshire
Details of Event
A shot had been fired some distance up the quarry face and deceased and the foreman were engaged taking off the loose stones, when a mass of rock came away above him and he was precipitated with the stones to the quarry bottom and killed him. He had a rope but he failed to keep his hold of it.