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Surname
MUIR
Forename
David
Day
21
Month
02
Year
1900
Age
56
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Hill of Beath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was stamping a hole in the coal head to support the inner end of a bar, which was intended to support a portion of the roof, from beneath which the coal had just been taken. While doing so, a large wedge-shaped stone of triangular section fell from between two ''lypes," killing him almost instantaneously. The existence of one of the "lypes" was known of prior to the accident, but that of the other was only revealed when the stone fell.