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THE FIRST FATALITY AT YALLEYFIELIL

... an unmarried man, was killed at Valleyfield Colliery, on Tuesday. He was engaged on a scaffold putting slides in the shaft of No. 1 Pit, when he lost his balance and fell a diatance of 44 feet on to the top of a lower scaffold. When picked up a few minutes ...

THORNTON

... TRAGEDY. MAN KILLED WHEN '4CAFFOLD COLLAPSES, TEN OTHERS INJURED. While work was proceeding in connection with the sinking of a new shaft at Beighion Colliery, near sheffeld, on Sunday morning, a scaffold collapsed and one ' man was killed, seven others ...

NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT

... 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 ...

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

AUCIITERMUCNTY

... there were two or three scaffolds, and at one part there were three planks forming part of one of the scaffolds. The men were working all night and, about 2 o'clock in the morning, be received a 'phone call that Hanigan had been killed. He immediately visited ...

/ 13 IM4, HOW BEVIN BOY MET HIS DEATH FELL DOWN PIT SHAFT. The story of how a Berth

... the low scaffold. Before the Sheriff returned a formal verdict. Mr Currie said that this boy was from Orkney, and had been called up for nettonal service, and his death in the circumstances was es much a casualty of war as those who had been killed on the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1944
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 989 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NUT CAME OFF MECHANISM

... Rotheq Colliery, Thornton, a three-and-a-half ton hoppit and 0,04 K) lbs. of wire rope fell 1,000 feet down the shaft and killed a Kirkcaldy pit sinker, Andrew Russell, 101 East March Street. Sc•-:-ral of the 21 workers trapp.d at the bottom of No. 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1951
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 586 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SALUTING THE OUARTIROSOK

... country Dryden lived In poverty and. distress. Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress. Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaffold Spenser died forsaken and in want ; Milton sold his copyright Paradise Lost for ilk in three payments, and finished his ...

coIIVLETINO THE EQCII•NIENT

... that they permitted to be used a winch fur raising and lowering a scaffold in one of the shafts at the Valleyfield Colliery which was not sufficiently braked, with the result th.t the scaffold collapsed, and four men fc'l to the bottom of the shaft and were ...

GIRDER'S FATAL SLIP

... erecting a steel girder in the Chemise section of the colliery about seven o'clock when the scaffold supporting the girder collapsed. The girder struck Carr, killing him instantaneously, cud injuring Wilkie and Peebles, who were conveyed to Wemyss Memorial ...

PITTENWEEM

... Gothenburg moveurznt. Mr Dewar was a conwiderable landowner. FATAL FAIL. A pitsinker named James 111'061. living at Crosshill, was killed at the Mary Pit, Lochore, belonging to the Fife Coal Company, ott Monday ruing. Sinking Olerations are being carried on, and ...

kiONEY SAVING 04D1F1,•4%•

... should be destroyed. flies aid agriculture b 7 kill, ing the Insther-jacheta. Daily Paper. Ma sentimental heart is sad, feel a fool, a knave. a Of vilest malefaction. For many are the times that Have killed a wasp without a sigh— And gloried in the action ...