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Surname
TWEEDIE
Forename
Daniel McDonald
Day
12
Month
02
Year
1932
Age
Occupation
Hutch Repairer
Mine/Quarry Name
Kinneil
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Kinniel Cannel & Coking Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bo’ness
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
FAI record - NAS "Daniel McDonald Tweedie, hutch repairer, 33 Castleloan, Bo'ness, died on 12 February 1932 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from septicaemia resulting from injury sustained on 26 January 1931 in Kinneil Colliery, Bo'ness, when a spanner he was using slipped, crushing the forefinger of his right hand against a hutch." The following MAY be the same accident: Accidents on the surface - A different type of accident which takes an annual toll of life both above and below ground occurred to a tub repairer who skinned his forefinger when screwing a nut with a spanner. He did not go to the first-aid room to have the wound cleansed and dressed, but his mate applied iodine to his greasy and dirty finger and put a bandage on. He finished his shift and presented himself for work next day but had to return home and died of septic poisoning 17 days later. [From Inspector of Mines Report for 1932]