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Surname
WALKER
Forename
A. (injured)
Day
16
Month
10
Year
1911
Age
Occupation
Contractor
Mine/Quarry Name
Dalmeny
Mineral Worked
Oil Shale
Owner
Dalmeny Oil Co. Ltd
Location
Dalmeny
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
Grieve was working with two other men. A. Walker contractor and A. Connolly miner. They were stooping or removing pillars on the lower side of a small area of waste which had been worked out and the roof allowed to fall. The roof had fallen up through 40ft. of strata and in doing so hall passed through two seams of shale, and Grieve apparently went up him the waste to slide this fallen shale down into the roadway, where Walker and Connolly where working, when his naked light ignited firedamp which had been allowed to accumulate, severely injuring him and Connolly, who was close to him. The deceased (Gilooley), Livingstone, a Fireman, and William Lees, who were going to see what was the matter, were also severely burned by the second flame, which extended about 200 feet into a main level above. 2 killed 2 injured.