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Details of Event: 29 September 1936: Buckhaven Miner's Death. - A similar verdict [formal verdict] was given in the inquiry into the death of Thomas Taylor, miner, 8 Lady Wynd, Buckhaven, who was employed as a miner by the Wemyss Coal Company at the Wellesley Colliery, Methil. On Tuesday, 29th September, Taylor was engaged in the Dysart Main Seam Dip Mine, when he was fatally injured by a race of moving hutches. David Webster, oversman, 24 Kenmore Terrace, Buckhaven, stated that on that day he had told Taylor to proceed to manhole near which there had been a fall on the earlier shift. He was merely stationed there to see that the haulage track was kept clear. He (Webster) had gone down to the foot of the road, and later in the afternoon learned that an accident had taken place. When he went to investigate he found there was no sign of Taylor at the manhole. Fifty yards further up a race of hutches had been stopped. Two of them were derailed and Taylor was beneath one of the hutches. Carried 50 Yards. - Further up there was another race of six hutches, four of which were derailed. Taylor had evidently been injured by the first race as well as the second. John Brown, 626 Wellesley Road, Methil manager of the colliery, remarked that Taylor must have been struck by the hutches at the manhole, and carried up by them 50 yards. It was evident that the first race of hutches had passed over his body. [Evening Telegraph 23 November 1936]