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... House. was killed in No. 1 Pit, Lumphinnans on Friday morning about 10 o'elfwk. Clark was at work on e scaffold suspended in the shaft, whan the structure tilted, and he was precipitated to the pit bottom, many fathoms beneatii. and killed. The result ...
... reaching the bottom, it was found that the skip had fallen, and had broken through the scaffold below. The bodies of the poor fellows were lying in the sump beneath. The scaffold was composed of six-inch oak, and this was broken through as if it had merely been ...
... LAD FALLS 30 FEET. OVERBALANCES ON SCAFFOLDING. A Dunfermline apprentice slater, who fell from a 30-foot-high scaffold on Tuesday, had remarkable escape. The lad, Angus M‘Donald (16), who resides with an aunt in Bridge Street, Dunfermline, was carrying ...
... 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 ...
... work. ing on a scaffold composed of an 11-inch batten. I Since the accident they had put up a permanent scaffold. They completed the work a little after twelve, midnight, and witness was on the cage, while deceased was on the scaffold banding the tools ...
... workmen's candles igniting a quantity gas which must have accumulated under the scaffold from the lower portion of the shaft. All the men are married, with the exception the one who killed. ...
... was work on scaffold, over forty feet from the ground, in the drying stove. Tee scaffold oa which the men were at work was about two feet iu width, and was suspended from the roof by means of iron bars. Along both sides of the scaffold a wirs rope run ...
... Iron Company. It appears that a abaft has been sunk there about latbos in depth, and on Triday four men welted work ge a scaffold half-way down the shaft, engaged ta (Arizjog away the woodwork which ha.' been put in while the shaft wee being sank. Part ...
... 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 ...
... pit sinker, residing at Woodhall, near Calderbank, was killed on Saturday night by a fall in the shaft of Dlessrs Dixon's 2 Pit, at Calder. Deceased, along with another man, was at work on a scaffold in the shaft, when he accidently slipped and fell 59 ...
... present erecting at Cameron Distillery, and Monday morning one of the scaffolds gave way, when some and labourers were precipitate ...
... James Muir McPhail, 11 Tweed Avenue, Kirkcaldy. McPhail, a sergeant paratrooper during the war, was killed when he fell about thirty feet from scaffolding in a Kirkcaldy factory on June 12. ...