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Surname
MOFFAT
Forename
David Tweedie
Day
01
Month
03
Year
1938
Age
23
Occupation
Mine worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Castle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Douglas
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
1 March 1938: Mineworker Killed - David Tweedie Moffat, aged 23, was fatally injured in Castle Colliery, Douglas, Lanarkshire, on Tuesday night. He was pushing a hutch of coal to the shaft when he failed to observe that the conveying carriage was not in position Both he and the hutch fell down the shaft, a distance of nearly 150 feet. Moffat, who had only recently become a mineworker having been at farm work tor some time, lived with his parents at 39 Castle Terrace Douglas West. [Scotsman 3 March 1938]