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Surname
TAYLOR
Forename
Thomas
Day
27
Month
07
Year
1928
Age
Occupation
Haulage Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill, No.1 Shaft
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
27 July 1928: Bowhill – Accident – A rather serious accident occurred last Friday forenoon in No 1 Pit, Bowhill Colliery. While in the act of endeavouring to prevent further damage being done to a dook haulage road, Thomas Taylor, 32 Eighteenth Street, was caught and severely crushed between the return carriage and a girder. Taylor was employed on the haulage road and a hutch becoming jammed caused and undue strain on the rope, and thereby moved the carriage. He received serious internal injury, and his condition necessitated his immediate removal to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. [Dunfermline Journal 4 August 1928]