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Surname
O'DONNELL
Forename
Edward
Day
29
Month
08
Year
1917
Age
Occupation
Drawer
Mine/Quarry Name
Deans, No.4 Mine
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Deans
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
29 August 1917: Fatal Mining Accident At Dean's Works – On Wednesday evening a young man named Edward O'Donnell, while working at the face in No.4 Shale mine Dean's belonging to the Pumpherston Oil Company, was so severely injured by a fall of shale that he died shortly afterwards. [Scotsman 31 August 1917] Edward O' Donnell, miner's drawer, 57 Glen Road, Livingston Station, died on 29 August 1917 in No.4 Shale Mine, Deans, Bathgate Parish, Linlithgowshire, when a large piece of shale fell upon him. NAS Reference: SC41/13/1917/11