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Surname
STEVENSON
Forename
Robert McPhee
Day
07
Month
07
Year
1938
Age
18
Occupation
Demolition Labourer
Mine/Quarry Name
Haugh
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Kilsyth
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
7 July 1938: Young Kilsyth Man Killed At Work - A fatality occurred at Kilsyth yesterday, the victim being an 18-year-old labourer Robert M'Phee Stevenson, who lived at Drumtocher Street, Kilsyth. He had been engaged along with another man on the demolition of the engine-house at the Haugh Colliery, Kilsyth, which has been closed down His companion observed the brick wall sway, and shouted to Stevenson, but the latter failed to get clear and was pinned down by the mass of bricks. [Scotsman 8 July 1938]