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Surname
SHAW
Forename
John Jnr
Day
21
Month
09
Year
1915
Age
19
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
23 September 1915: Gas Explosion In Bowhill Pit - While John Shaw Jnr (19), miner, 3 Front Row, Cardenden, was employed in taking down a hutch of coal in the Foulford seam of No 1 Pit, Bowhill Colliery on Thursday, he was burned on the right side of the face and shoulder by the explosion of a small pocket of gas. The place had been tested a short time previously by a safety lamp, and gave no indication of gas. It is supposed that the gas has escaped through a fissure in the coal. The burns were not serious. [Dunfermline Journal 25 September 1915]