Full Details

Surname

ADAMS

Forename

William Whisker Kechans

Day

23

Month

04

Year

1965

Age

Occupation

Denior Oversman

Mine/Quarry Name

Glencraig

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

National Coal Board

Location

Lochgelly

County

Fifeshire

Details of Event

William Whisker Kechans Adams, senior oversman, 11 Manse Road, Glencraig and Peter Chalmers, unit electrical engineer, 12 Manse Road, Glencraig, both drowned on 23 Apr 1965 in the underground workings of Glencraig Colliery, Parish of Ballingry, Fife, when the haulage of a bogie in which they were travelling went out of control and said bogie ran downhill and was submerged in a flooded portion"