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Surname
PURVIS
Forename
James
Day
12
Month
03
Year
1913
Age
48
Occupation
Quarryman
Mine/Quarry Name
Steelend Quarry
Mineral Worked
Whinstone
Owner
A. Burnton & Son
Location
Steelend
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
He was charging a hole with gelignite, which he knew to he partly frozen. One of the cartridges stuck in the hole and he pushed it hard with the wooden stemmer with the result that the whole charge exploded, and so seriously injured that he died about three hours afterwards.