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Surname
RAFFERTY
Forename
Joseph
Day
21
Month
11
Year
1919
Age
Occupation
Shale miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Fanspark
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Broxburn
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
21 November 1919: Fatal Mining Accident Near Broxburn - Joseph Rafferty, a shale miner, residing at Kennedy's Court, Broxburn, was entombed on Friday by a large quantity of shale which fell upon him from the roof while he was at work in Fanspark Mine, near Broxburn, belonging to Young's Oil Company. For eighteen hours a dozen of Rafferty's fellow workmen laboured heroically to remove the material and effect his release, during the greater part of which time Rafferty was known to be alive. At 4.30 on Saturday morning, however, when Rafferty was readied, it was found that he was dead. He was 45 years of ago, and leaves a wife and nine of a family. [Scotsman 24 November 1919]