Full Details

Surname

WILKIE

Forename

James

Day

28

Month

02

Year

1902

Age

62

Occupation

Quarrier

Mine/Quarry Name

Craigie Quarry

Mineral Worked

Whinstone

Owner

D.C. Guthrie

Location

Craigie

County

Forfarshire

Details of Event

Deceased and another workman were charging a dipping hole with Nobel's gelignite when an explosion occurred. The probability is that the cartridges were in a hard and therefore an unsafe condition. The stemmer used to ram the explosive was made of wood.