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Surname
BROWN
Forename
David
Day
09
Month
06
Year
1905
Age
16
Occupation
Rope runner
Mine/Quarry Name
Battery Quarry
Mineral Worked
Whinstone
Owner
Alexander Brunton & Son
Location
North Queensferry
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
The material is conveyed from the quarry to the loading wharf by a travelling steam crane and deceased duties were to sit in front and attach the crane chain from the box, the loaded box had been discharged at the wharf and crane was returning to the quarry when by some means he fell off and was run over.