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Surname
BROWN
Forename
William
Day
01
Month
10
Year
1912
Age
21
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Crofthead
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
P. Thornton
Location
Fauldhouse
County
Linlithgowshire
Details of Event
He was behind a coal cutting machine driving it under a roof where clay filled the hollows of a rolling rock. The coal fell close to the disc, allowing the roof supports set or needled in to fall away from the clay roof, two tons of which descended and suffocated him.