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Surname
STOTT
Forename
James
Day
08
Month
01
Year
1901
Age
44
Occupation
Wagon Shunter
Mine/Quarry Name
Foulford
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
A labourer was bringing forward two loaded trucks from the backlye to a dross washer leaving nine loaded trucks standing trigged in the backlye. After proceeding some distance he observed that the nine trucks had got away and were following him. Shouting to a fellow workman to take charge of the two trucks he ran back to secure the nine but failed to stop them. They overtook the others and drove them with some violence against some empty trucks standing in front. Deceased had at the moment gone between two of these to couple them and was crushed between the buffers. He died five hours after.