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RGC man killed by steel bar

... RGC man killed by steel bar A Fatal Accident Inquiry was held on Wednesday into the death of a 32-year-old scaffolder, who was killed by a steel bar which fell from a height of 50 metres at the RGC Offshore oil-rig construction yard in Methil. said he ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 950 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

l’ll’i Eflt: rßctoo Work killed aft I f ffoldi A WORKMAN died after plung- that Mr Riddell, of 22 Chester

... Work killed aft I f ffoldi A WORKMAN died after plung- that Mr Riddell, of 22 Chester Grove, Sheriff Court that the accident hap- Consultant pathologist Dr Ibrahim Cross braces could have been Procurator Fiscal Mr Frank Crowe ing from scaffolding in an ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1992
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 375 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Gallery That Fell The fourth in a series of articles tracing the strands in the pattern of events leading ..

... fourth in a series of articles tracing the strands in the pattern of events leading to the tragedy in 1828 when 28 people were killed in the fall of the Kirkcaldy Old Kirk gallery. The work of building a new Parish Chuich in Kirkcaldy doesn’t seem to have ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1967
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Fatal Fall in Dockyard

... Queensferry, was killed in an accident at Rosyth Dockyard on Monday. Irvine, a skilled labourer, was with a squad of workmen Ealnting an auxiliary vessel, Fort Langley, in the main basin when he slipped and fell from the scaffolding on to a catamaran ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1958
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHOT MAN

... leading his men away, Porteous sprang from the scaffold, snatched the musket of a nearby soldier and shot a man dead. Several of the other guards followed his comand and as a result six or 'seven people were killed and a greal many hurt and wounded. John Porteous ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1967
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

VILLERS BRETONNEUX

... The last time I was here the Memorial was surrounded by scaffolding getting the finishing touches before being unveiled by the King and Queen in 1938. To-day it is again hidden by scaffolding. The reason is that it was badly knocked about in World War ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1950
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Hopper Crashes 1,000 Feet Down New Shaft

... bottom of the shaft scattered and. protected by steel scaffolding, fiattened against the walls but the hopper struck 36- vear-old pit-sinker, Andrew Russell, 101 East March Street, Kirkcaldy, ile was killed instantly. message was lowered asking bat the position ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1951
Newspaper: Fifeshire Advertiser
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Inventive

... chase ‘'em and shoot ‘em. Levels and ladders involves setting up a scaffold type of structure on the screen along which your hero character can move and pick up treasure while killing aliens. Chase ‘em and shoot ‘em type games are in the honoured tradition ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CONCERN OVER FLATS DANGER

... or even killed.” Alan McFarlane, director of housing, said: “| agree wholeheartedly. The contractor has secured the ground floors, and employs a watchman, but even this does not seem to discourage some people. “They are cimbing up the scaffolding to the ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1986
Newspaper: Glenrothes Gazette
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 341 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

the increase

... and scaffolding. In 1981, 16 of the 26 deaths were as a result of falls from more than two metres and someone had managed to kill himself by falling a distance of only four feet. Workers most at risk were those engaged in demolition, scaffolding and roofing ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1982
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 360 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

l DIY « DOMESTIC OR COMMERCIAL FITTING « AS SEEN ON TV by J. H. C. Laker

... which reconstructs one of the most baffling crimes in American history. In 1892 Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were killed by an axe. Lizzie was tried and found not guilty. Yet today Lizzie is remembered as America’s most famous parricide. In this ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1984
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 18 | Tags: none