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Surname
BOYD
Forename
James
Day
17
Month
10
Year
1929
Age
45
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Gateside
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd
Location
Kirkconnel
County
Dumfriesshire
Details of Event
17 October 1929: Miner Killed At Sanquhar - A distressing fatality, occurred in the Connelbush section of Gateside colliery, Sanquhar, yesterday, resulting in the death of James Boyd, aged 45, a miner, who resided at Kelloholm, Kirkconnel . He was engaged along with another miner, James Carnochan, in filling a hutch at the coal face, when without warning, a fall of stone came away from the roof. Boyd received the full force of the fall on his head, and sustained terrible injuries from which he died immediately. Fortunately, Carnochan escaped without injury. [Scotsman 18 October 1929]