Full Details

Surname

URE

Forename

Barbara

Day

09

Month

03

Year

1933

Age

16

Occupation

Pithead Worker

Mine/Quarry Name

Kinneil, Furnace Yard Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

Kinniel Cannel & Coking Coal Co. Ltd

Location

Bo’ness

County

Linlithgowshire

Details of Event

9 March 1933: Crushed Between Waggon - While crossing the railway line at Furnaceyard Pit, Bo'ness, yesterday, Barbara Ure (16), pithead worker, 92 Kinneil Road, Bo'ness, was seriously injured by being crushed between two waggons. She failed to notice workmen coupling waggons, and passed between two which closed in on her. She was removed in an unconscious condition to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 10 March 1933]