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| Date: | 12th November 1908 |
| Colliery: | Lochore |
| Company: | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Cause: | By explosives |
| Lives Lost: | 2 |
| Category: | Miscellaneous Underground Accidents :: By explosives |
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 | Wells, Daniel, aged 32, Brusher, Three shots were prepared and charged with Saxonite in a stone mine, and the fuse used was Bickford's Patent Igniter. The fuses were lighted in the usual way by means of the authorised implement. As the fireman left the face he remarked that one tube had not lit, and in the interval of waiting he prepared another tube; when two shots had exploded he and Wells returned to the face when the shot exploded, killing the latter instantly and causing injuries to the former, which resulted in his death next day |
| | McLaren, John (died: 13 Nov 1908) , aged 28, Fireman, Three shots were prepared and charged with Saxonite in a stone mine, and the fuse used was Bickford's Patent Igniter. The fuses were lighted in the usual way by means of the authorised implement. As the fireman left the face he remarked that one tube had not lit, and in the interval of waiting he prepared another tube; when two shots had exploded he and Wells returned to the face when the shot exploded, killing the latter instantly and causing injuries to the former, which resulted in his death next day |
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