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Surname
URE
Forename
Barbara
Day
09
Month
03
Year
1933
Age
16
Occupation
Pithead Worker
Mine/Quarry Name
Kinneil, Furnace Yard Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Kinniel Cannel & Coking Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Bo’ness
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
9 March 1933: Crushed Between Waggon - While crossing the railway line at Furnaceyard Pit, Bo'ness, yesterday, Barbara Ure (16), pithead worker, 92 Kinneil Road, Bo'ness, was seriously injured by being crushed between two waggons. She failed to notice workmen coupling waggons, and passed between two which closed in on her. She was removed in an unconscious condition to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 10 March 1933]