Full Details

Surname

BLAIR

Forename

John

Day

17

Month

06

Year

1913

Age

16

Occupation

Pony Driver

Mine/Quarry Name

Lumphinnans, No.1 Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Fife Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Kelty

County

Fifeshire

Details of Event

He was found dead with his head tinder the buffer of the first of five full hutches standing on a gradient of about 1 in 25. Probably he was attempting to lift a hutch on the road which was the first of a rake of six hutches, and having spragged the five hutches above mentioned, he slipped and knocked out the sprag and allowed the five hutches to run forward on to him.