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Surname
WRIGHT
Forename
George Amos
Day
02
Month
01
Year
1928
Age
34
Occupation
Engineer
Mine/Quarry Name
Plean, By-product Works
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Plean Colliery Co. Ltd
Location
Bannockburn
County
Stirlingshire
Details of Event
2 January 1928: As a result of injuries received by the explosion of a gas container at the by-product works at Plean Colliery, George Amos Wright (34), engineer, Forthview, East Plean, had died in Stirling Royal Infirmary. Wright was engaged welding a copper pipe with a flame produced by oxygen and coal gas when the gas container exploded and he was severely injured about the face and had an arm broken. [Dunfermline Journal 7 January 1928]