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Surname
SIMPSON
Forename
Henry
Day
01
Month
11
Year
1922
Age
21
Occupation
Pithead worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Cameron
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wemyss Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Buckhaven
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Sundries – A tub of dirt was being transferred from one side of the pit bank to the other via the top deck of the double-decked cage. The tub up-ended on the cage and deceased stepped on the cage in order to right it when the engineman lowered without being signalled. Deceased was found on the cover of the cage 9 ft. from the surface. He sustained a fractured skull, and died 20 minutes later.