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Surname
BURNS
Forename
James
Day
05
Month
02
Year
1915
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Mossbeath
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cowdenbeath
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
5 February 1915: Cowdenbeath Miner Seriously Injured - James Burns, miner, residing at Stenhouse Street, Cowdenbeath, met with a serious accident in Mossbeath Pit, Cowdenbeath, yesterday forenoon. He had been engaged placing two empty hutches on the rails in a wheelbrae when he was struck by two loaded vehicles which had unexpectedly broken loose and jammed him against the empty hutches. He sustained a fracture of the skull. He was conveyed to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition. [Dunfermline Journal 6 February 1915] NB. James Burns died of a fractured skull on 5 February 1915 in Dunfermline Cottage Hospital