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Surname
WILSON
Forename
Andrew
Day
16
Month
12
Year
1927
Age
Occupation
Mine/Quarry Name
Lindsay
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Kelty
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
16 December 1927: Fife Pit Accident - Fourteen Men Injured - Cage Crashed To Bottom - Fourteen miners were injured, three of them seriously, in an accident which occurred yesterday morning at the Fife Coal Company' s Lindsay pit, Kelty. A double-decked cage, carrying sixteen men, was being lowered in the shaft when a defect, so far unexplained, developed in the winding apparatus. The result was that, instead of stopping at the staging, the cage crashed into the pit bottom. The occupants were subjected to a violent shock, their heads, in some cases, coming in contact with the sides and roof of the cage. First-aid men assisted the injured miners out of the cage, and with all speed they were conveyed to the surface, where two doctors were soon in attendance. Three of the men, more seriously injured than their comrades, were removed, in an ambulance waggon to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. They were:- Albert Coutts, 9 Ness Buildings, Kelty, fracture of the right leg and dislocation of the knee; Andrew Wilson, Normand Place, Cocklaw Street, Kelty, laceration of the right foot; and William Gray, 203 Stenhouse Street, Cowdenbeath, severe shock end bruises about the body. After having their injuries attended to by the doctors at the pithead, the other men were transported in ambulance waggons to their homes. They all suffered from shock and leg and face injuries. These men were:- John Clarkson, Oakfield Street, Kelty; Joe Arnott, 45 Naysmith Place, Kelty; George Dunn, Catholic Institute, Cowdenbeath; Ignatius Moore, Kirkford; William Grey, 11 Adams Terrace, Kelty; James Cargill, 3 Scotland's Place, Kelty; Robert Watson, Kirkford; Andrew Paterson, East Park Street, Cowdenbeath; David Sinclair, Doune Terrace, Kelty; Andrew Philp, Keltyhill, Kelty; and Alexander Richardson, Brown's Buildings. Kelty. Trifling damage was done to the shaft and winding apparatus. [Scotsman 17 December 1927]