Full Details

Surname

THOMPSON

Forename

Thomas

Day

07

Month

12

Year

1910

Age

30

Occupation

Miner

Mine/Quarry Name

Dunnikier

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Fife Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Kirkcaldy

County

Fifeshire

Details of Event

The roof of a dook at a place where it was intended to turn off a level was being supported with iron girders. A prop was being set under a bearing girder when more than 15 tons of roof fell and buried deceased and another man. After three hours hard work they were extricated, but Thomson died on the 10th.