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Surname
OSTLER
Forename
William
Day
22
Month
07
Year
1907
Age
18
Occupation
Driver
Mine/Quarry Name
Cowdenbeath, No.10 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another man were engaged making an airway through waste ground when a large fall occurred, displacing some timber which had been recently set and burying the three men. Ostler with the assistance of the third man managed to get himself freed and groped his way in the dark to where a pony stood it led him to the shaft bottom where he got help. McGartland died before being extricated and Ostler died five days later. At the Fatal Accident Inquiry subsequently held into the circumstances of the accident the jury, very properly, commended the pluck action of the Ostler in going for help a distance of 500 yards without alight although being fatally injured. 2 killed.