Full Details
- Surname
- MURDOCH
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 26
- Month
- 12
- Year
- 1903
- Age
- 27
- Occupation
- Miner
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Pumpherston
- Mineral Worked
- Oil Shale
- Owner
- Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
- Location
- Uphall
- County
- Linlithgowshire
- Details of Event
- A mass of shale fell away from a vertical joint at the corner of a stoop in a working 8ft. 6ins. in height and dipping 1 in 5. Part of it fell upon deceased killing him instantly.
