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Surname
BRODIE
Forename
William
Day
21
Month
05
Year
1900
Age
35
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Arniston
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Arniston Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Gorebridge
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
A strip of about 3ft. in width was being taken off one side of an old longwall road for the purpose of straightening it. Deceased was holing out the old stowage under the overhanging side when a stone 9ft. in length by 3ft. by 3 ft. at extremes suddenly came away from an old break formed by the subsidence of the roof over the longwall waste and fell upon him. He died whilst being extricated. The stone did not appear to have been in any way shored or ranced up.