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Surname
ORR
Forename
Peter
Day
21
Month
06
Year
1919
Age
17
Occupation
Filler
Mine/Quarry Name
Mossbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
21 June 1919: FATAL ACCIDENT AT COWDENBEATH COLLIERY. A sad mining accident took place at Mossbeath Colliery, Cowdenbeath, on Saturday, resulting in the death of Peter Orr, 17 years of age, son of Thomas Orr, 85 Moss Side Road, Cowdenbeath. The boy was working with his father filling at the "face," when a stone fell from the roof, killing him instantaneously. [Dundee Courier - Monday 23 June 1919] Also Dunfermline Journal 12 July 1919.