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Surname
WILKIE
Forename
James
Day
28
Month
02
Year
1902
Age
62
Occupation
Quarrier
Mine/Quarry Name
Craigie Quarry
Mineral Worked
Whinstone
Owner
D.C. Guthrie
Location
Craigie
County
Forfarshire
Details of Event
Deceased and another workman were charging a dipping hole with Nobel's gelignite when an explosion occurred. The probability is that the cartridges were in a hard and therefore an unsafe condition. The stemmer used to ram the explosive was made of wood.