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Surname
WELLS
Forename
Daniel
Day
12
Month
11
Year
1908
Age
32
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Lochore
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochore
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
Three shots were prepared and charged with Saxonite in a stone mine, and the fuse used was Bickfords Patent Igniter. The fuses were lighted in the usual way by means of the authorised implement. As the fireman left the face he remarked that one tube had not lit, and in the interval of waiting he prepared another tube when two shots had exploded. He and Wells returned to the face when the shot exploded, killing the latter instantly and causing in juries to the former, which resulted in his death next day. 2 killed.