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Surname
RODMAN
Forename
Francis (Injured)
Day
06
Month
12
Year
1925
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Kirkstyle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Portland Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Riccarton
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
6 December 1925: A fatal accident occurred yesterday in Kirkstyle Pit, Kilmarnock. While several miners were engaged in widening a haulage road, a fall took place from the roof, and William Gillies M'Kenna, 13 Fleming Street, Riccarton, was pinned under it, and instantaneously killed. Deceased was 31 years of age, and has left a widow and two of a family. One of the other men, Francis Rodman, residing in Hill Street, Kilmarnock, was injured on both feet. He is a son of Alexander Rodman, pit foreman, one of the five men who were killed in an explosion of firedamp in the same pit in the early part of this year. [The Scotsman 7 December 1925]