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Surname
YOUNG
Forename
Joseph
Day
14
Month
05
Year
1904
Age
45
Occupation
Bottomer
Mine/Quarry Name
Rosebank
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
John Nimmo & Son Ltd
Location
Dunfermline
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
There are two stopping places, one it lower bottom and one five fathoms above where coal is dugged and deceased was in charge of the former. The arranged signal was given by him when north cage arrived at lower bottom to rest it, and he took off the empty and was putting on a loaded one when the cage was raised apparently without a signal and was fatally crushed at the door heads. At the time of the accident and for short time before the winding engine was being worked by a person under 22 years of age.