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Surname
ROBERTSON
Forename
James
Day
23
Month
11
Year
1912
Age
45
Occupation
Pitwright
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochgelly, Nellie Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Loghgelly Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was at work on a temporary scaffold over the shaft, near Pithead level, with two other men, the cage being about 18ft. below him, when the cage, which had been suspended in the shaft two and a half hours previously, began to rise slowly and he was pinned between the top on the scaffold which was carried up on the top of cage, and a girder, and the Winding Engineman, in attempting to release him, took the cage the wrong way, and deceased was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft.