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Surname
SLATER
Forename
John
Day
25
Month
03
Year
1913
Age
51
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Balgonie
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Balgonie Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Thornton
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased was sitting in a lye waiting for a rake of empty hutches coming in, when he was caught, and fatally crushed against a rake of full hutches standing in the lye, by a runaway full hutch from the top end of the lye, and which he mistook for an empty hutch.