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Surname
SIMON
Forename
Colin
Day
14
Month
01
Year
1925
Age
57
Occupation
Pit Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Muiredge
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Buckhaven
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
14 January 1925: Buckhaven Mining Fatality – Work on the night shift at Muiredge Colliery was abandoned on Wednesday owing to the death of a pit bottomer, Colin Simon. Simon was loading the cage with hutches when he was struck by a hutch and knocked into the foot of the shaft, three hutches falling over after him. Fifty-seven years of age, Mr Simon leaves a widow and four of a family. [Dunfermline Journal 17 January 1925]