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Surname
ALLAN
Forename
Robert
Day
11
Month
09
Year
1907
Age
30
Occupation
Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Glencraig
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was employed to take off and put on tubs in endless rope haulage incline by means of Smallman clips This haulage rope worked intermittently and stood for long intervals. Deceased was found quite dead at the foot of the incline with a tub on top of him, which had upset. It is thought that deceased may have fallen asleep during the interval that rope stood, and was in this way of this tubs when the rope started.