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Surname
CAIRNS
Forename
Robert
Day
14
Month
07
Year
1914
Age
44
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Whitehill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Lothian Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Rosewell
County
Edinburghshire
Details of Event
He was at work making a hole for a strap at the road-head of a longwall face in a seam 5ft thick when the two carrying bars and the polling wood above them, were swung out by a fall of blaes roof, which killed him instantly. Stringers to bind the carrying bars together would probably have prevented the swinging of the timber.