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Surname
STEVENSON
Forename
David
Day
24
Month
11
Year
1913
Age
68
Occupation
Picker
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Deceased came forward on to a scaffold, about the height of a railway wagon from the ground, to see a loaded wagon lowered from under the delivery end of a picking belt. Just as it was being lowered he was seen to step from the scaffold on to the wagon and bend down, as though to pick something up, despite the fact that he was a heavy, aged and rather infirm man. He appears to have been thrown out by the wagon stopping suddenly; he was found on the ground unconscious and bleeding. He died five days later without having regained consciousness.