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Surname
O'KANE
Forename
Patrick
Day
04
Month
04
Year
1917
Age
40
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Minto
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
4 & 5 April 1917: Three Fatal Accidents - On Thursday afternoon Henry Hogarth, a miner, lately residing at 123 South Glencraig, met with a fatal accident at his working place in the Nellie Pit, Lochgelly Colliery, by a fall from the roof. He died shortly after he was struck. Hogarth was 36 years of age. On Wednesday night Patrick O'Kane (40), miner, lately residing at Hunter Street, Lochgelly, was fatally injured by a fall from the face in his working place at the Minto Pit, wrought by the Lochgelly Iron and Coal Company, Ltd. Alexander Gray, a boy of 11 years of age, and the stepson of David Muir, miner, Long Row, Denend, fell over the stone quarry at Denend and was instantaneously killed. [Dunfermline Journal 7 April 1917]