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Surname
THOMPSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
07
Month
12
Year
1910
Age
30
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Dunnikier
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kirkcaldy
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
The roof of a dook at a place where it was intended to turn off a level was being supported with iron girders. A prop was being set under a bearing girder when more than 15 tons of roof fell and buried deceased and another man. After three hours hard work they were extricated, but Thomson died on the 10th.