| Year | Month | Day | Name of Colliery | Where situated | Owners name | Person(s) killed | Occupation | Age | Category (if given) | Cause of death and remarks | Extra details |
| 1880 | January | 7 | Overtown Station No 1 | Cambusnethan, LKS | Brand & Co | Bernard Gilligan | Collier | -- | Falls of sides | At stooping | |
| 1880 | January | 16 | Woodyetts | Denny | R Addie & Son | Alex McLachlan | Miner | 32 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | When preparing to blast and whilst drawing the needle (copper) the shot exploded From Main body of report: Happened in a mine being driven in "whin." The deceased and his neighbour had just completed a bore hole, which they had charged with powder, and inserted the usual stemming. I understand they were in the act of withdrawing the "needle" - a copper one - when the shot exploded, the deceased was fatally injured, but singularly his companion escaped. The mode of withdrawing the "needle" was by putting a "jumper" or iron rod through the eye of the "needle," and whilst the deceased struck it - the jumper - with a hammer, his neighbour held it in position. | |
| 1880 | January | 20 | Bothwell Park No 1 | Bothwell, LKS | Wm Baird & Co | John Fee | Drawer | 14 | Miscellaneous underground- by tubs and trams | Tub went over him on a drawing road | |
| 1880 | January | 25 | Ferryton | Clackmannan | Clackmannan Coal Co | Wm Hall | Collier | -- | Falls of roof | At face, long wall. Died 14th February | |
| 1880 | January | 27 | Arden No 2 | New Monkland, LKS | Wm Black & Sons | Jas. Waddell | Sinker | -- | Miscellaneous in shafts | Fell with a scaffold which was insecurely lashed | |
| 1880 | January | 28 | Foulshiels | Whitburn, Linlithgow | Robt. Henderson | Edward Devlin | Bottomer | 32 | Miscellaneous in shafts | The engineman felt something jamming the cage and stopped it. Deceased was found squeezed between the cage and the door heads. There was no one else at the pit bottom | |
| 1880 | January | 31 | Gartness | New Monkland, LKS | Gartness Mineral Co Ltd | Henry Hewitt | Locomotive brakesman | 26 | On surface – miscellaneous | Jammed between buffers while passing out after coupling a wagon to the engine | |
| 1880 | January | 31 | Glenclelland | Dalziel, LKS | Kerr & Mitchell | Pat. Monaghan | Collier | -- | Falls of sides | While taking down head coal. Died 3rd April | |
| 1880 | January | 31 | Kilgrammie | Girvan | Cowper & McHarrie | Wm Gallacher | Collier | 29 | In coal mines | Fall of roof at face | |
| 1880 | January | 31 | Kirkwood | Coatbridge | Summerlee Iron Co | Francis Nicholas | Collier | 24 | In coal mines | Fall of roof at face | |
| 1880 | February | 9 | Hallcraig | Carluke, LKS | Coltness Iron Co | Wm Cadzow | Drawer | 13 | In ironstone mines | Fall of roof on drawing road 8 yards from face. Long wall | |
| 1880 | February | 9 | Ibrox | Govan | W S Dixon | William Fleming | Miner | 17 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fall of roof whilst engaged putting up wood | |
| 1880 | February | 10 | Allanshaw | Hamilton, LKS | Allanshaw Coal Co | Robt. Kelso | Collier | 24 | Falls of sides | At stooping | |
| 1880 | February | 13 | Garriongill No 1 | Cambusnethan, LKS | Coltness Iron Co | John Paul | Collier | 73 | Falls of roof | At face on entering in the morning, stoop and room | |
| 1880 | February | 20 | Cowdenbeath | Beath, FIF | Cowdenbeath Coal Co | John Morgan | locomotive brakesman | 19 | On surface – miscellaneous | Crushed between buffers of locomotive and waggon | |
| 1880 | February | 23 | Cronberry | Lugar | Eglinton Iron Co | John Richmond | Miner | 36 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | February | 25 | Kirkwood | Coatbridge | John Hendrie | James Higgins | Collier | 36 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | February | 26 | Dunsyston No 2 | Shotts, LKS | Summerlee Iron Co | Mich. Connelly | Collier | -- | Falls of roof | At face while holing | |
| 1880 | February | 28 | Pennyveenie | Dalmellington | Dalmellington Iron Co | Alex Jones | Fireman | 44 | In coal mines | Explosion of fire damp From Main body of report: Happened to a fireman, who it appears had gone into an abandoned road in search of a “sleeper” when a slight explosion took place. There is some uncertainty as to how the explosion happened, the ordinary shift was at work, and from all accounts no one was aware of the presence of fire damp at that time. | |
| 1880 | March | 2 | Niddrie No 11 | Portobello, Edinburgh | Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Grainger | Collier | 33 | In shafts – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | The spur gear of the winding engine broke, and they fell with the cage to the bottom | |
| Phillip Braidy | Collier | 17 | |||||||||
| 1880 | March | 14 | Blantyre No 4 | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Dixon Ltd | And. McLean | Collier | 21 | Miscellaneous underground- suffocation by gases | Supposed to have been suffocated by an underground fire. His body was found on the 12th January 1881 | Newspaper report - Blantyre pages |
| 1880 | March | 18 | Broxburn | Uphall, Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Henry Black | Miner | 55 | In shale mines | Fall of shale while holing. Stooping | |
| 1880 | March | 20 | Greenhead No 3 | Cambusnethan, LKS | Coltness Iron Co | James Rae | Collier | 18 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | March | 20 | Wellwood | Lugar | Eglinton Iron Co | Joseph Muir | Fireman | 42 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | By falling part way down shaft From Main body of report: Took place in a shaft, where a rope working in the pumping division for the purpose of haulage, caught the “buntens” which separate the pumping from the winding division, part of it projected in to the latter division, and the ascending cage got entangled with it about 20 fathoms from the bottom of the pit. The oversman being at the pithead at the time was lowered to the cage by means of a steam crab, and with an assistant was disengaging the rope, when the deceased, who was fireman in the mine, went to a midworking eight fathoms above the bottom, but 12 fathoms under where the cage was stopped, and commenced to climb up the "slides" in order to assist in relieving the cage. It is supposed that he had climbed to within four fathoms of the cage when he lost his hold and fell to the bottom. The injuries, though not supposed to be serious at the time, caused death six days after. | |
| 1880 | March | 23 | Lassodie No 9 | Beath, FIF | Lassodie Colliery Co | Wm. Penman | Collier | 2 - | Falls of sides | At face | |
| 1880 | March | 29 | Annockledge | Irvine | Annocklodge Oil Co | Thomas Welsh | Collier | 18 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fall of shale at face | |
| 1880 | March | 29 | Blantyre No 1 Ell | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Dixon Ltd | Hugh Sherry | Collier | 21 | Falls of sides | At face while holing | |
| 1880 | March | 30 | Auchinharvie | Saltcoats | M & Cunningham | Thomas Jones | Collier | 40 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | April | 3 | Fernigare No 2 | Hamilton, LKS | Archd. Russell | Patrick Curran | Collier | 16 | Explosion of fire damp | Died 12th April – see report From Main body of report: There as one explosion of firedamp which resulted in injury to three persons, one of whom died a week afterwards. A collier and his two sons were commencing stooping operations, and were driving the first “lift” alongside of an old room which was standing at a hitch 8 yards up. The roof in this room had fallen after the props had been taken out a day or two previously, and some firedamp collected in it which the fireman had failed to observe in the morning. A further fall shortly after they began work brought the gas out upon the men's naked lights. | |
| 1880 | April | 5 | Huttonhill No 1 | Bothwell, LKS | Huttonhill Coal Co | Wm. Chalmers | Brusher | 40 | Miscellaneous underground- explosions of gunpowder | While charging a hole the powder exploded | |
| 1880 | April | 8 | Caprington | Kilmarnock | W S Cunningham | James Stewart | Collier | 16 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | April | 10 | Misk | Kilwinning | Eglinton Iron Co | Alex Blane | Brusher | 50 | In coal mines | Fall of roof while engaged taking it down | |
| 1880 | April | 12 | Dalziel | Dalziel, LKS | John McAndrew & Co | John Hinshelwood | locomotive brakesman | 18 | On surface – miscellaneous | Fell off train of wagons and was run over | |
| 1880 | April | 14 | Tillicoultry | Tillicoultry, CLK | Alloa Coal Co | Wm. Patterson | Collier | 64 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | April | 30 | Dalquharran | Maybole | T F Kennedy | Jas Galloway | Collier | 37 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | May | 3 | Stonecraigs No 4 | Cambusnethan, LKS | Coltness Iron Co | Wm. Bryson | Collier | 25 | Falls of sides | At face, head coal | |
| 1880 | May | 5 | Cardonald | Govan | James Dunlop & Co | William Carle | Miner | 17 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Explosion of fire damp, injured 21st April, died 5th May From Main body of report: Took place in an ironstone mine, and was occasioned by the deceased, who, while passing to his work with his lamp on his head, ignited a small quantity of gas which had collected in the upper part of one of the roadways, and by which he was injured about the face and arms. The injuries caused by the explosion were at the time supposed to be slight, but death ensued two weeks after. | |
| 1880 | May | 5 | Quarter | Denny | Wm Baird & Co | James Stewart | Collier | 33 | In coal mines | Fall of coal and roof | |
| 1880 | May | 13 | Balgray | Beith | James Dunsmuir | James Dunsmuir | Owner | 30 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | May | 13 | Swineridgemuir | Beith | M & Cunningham | John Mullen | Miner | 18 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Whilst engaged blasting shot exploded before he got out of its way From Main body of report: The second also occurred whilst blasting. The deceased was alone at the time in one of the ordinary "walls" of the mine, and after boring a hole at the face, he charged it with powder in the customary way, using a straw filled with powder for a fuse. It is not known how the accident happened, but the shot must have gone off before he had time to leave the place; he was severely injured and died in consequence of the injuries about three weeks after. | |
| 1880 | May | 15 | Garscadden | Duntocher | M & Cunningham | James Johnstone | Labourer | 57 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fell from a scaffold, a distance of 20 feet From Main body of report: Took place in an ironstone mine and was occasioned by a “hutch runner” falling about 20 feet from a scaffold, whilst attempting to relieve a hutch he was in the act of emptying, and which had got jammed on the front of the tip. | |
| 1880 | May | 17 | Gauchalland | Galston | Gauchalland Coal Co | Wm Brown | Roadsman | 17 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| And. Robertson | Roadsman | 50 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |||||||
| 1880 | May | 25 | Newbattle, Bryans | Newbattle, Edinburgh | Marquis of Lothian | Wm. Robertson | Assistant bottomer | 63 | Miscellaneous in shafts | A loaded tub slipped out of top deck and some coals struck him. Died 27th May | |
| 1880 | May | 26 | Parkead No 2 | Dalziel, LKS | John Watson | Matthew Kennedy | Collier | 30 | Falls of sides | While taking down coal. Stooping | |
| 1880 | May | 30 | Carronhall No 5 | Bothkennar, STI | Carron Co | James Sharp | Engineman | 54 | On surface – miscellaneous | Scalded by hot water and steam while cleaning out the overflow pipe from hot-well during the time the engine was working | |
| 1880 | June | 1 | Wellwood | Muirkirk | Eglinton Iron Co | James Park | Collier | 32 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | June | 11 | Blantyre No 3 Ell | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Dixon Ltd | Wm Gardiner | Brusher | 25 | Falls of roof | On drawing road while taking down loose stone | |
| 1880 | June | 15 | North Motherwell No 2 | Dalziel, LKS | Merry & Cunningham | John Smith | Stone miner | 39 | Miscellaneous underground- explosions of gunpowder | Premature explosion of a shot. He lighted the straw instead of the match | |
| 1880 | June | 18 | Gilmilnscroft | Auchinleck | Gilmour, Wood & Anderson | Michael Curdie, sen | Collier | 43 | In coal mines | Explosion of fire damp From Main body of report: Occurred in a mine where fire damp had not been reported for at least four months before the accident. The deceased and his son had been at work for about 8 hours on the day of the explosion, and the latter, while returning from the pit bottom t the place where his father was at work, ignited some fire damp, by which he was burned. Though the explosion was slight the effect was to derange the ventilation, and three hours elapsed before it could be sufficiently restored to enable them to recover the bodies. In both cases death resulted, I believe, from the effects of the after damp. | |
| Michael Curdie, jun | Collier | 17 | |||||||||
| 1880 | June | 25 | Dalziel | Dalziel, LKS | Wishaw Coal Co | James Kelly | Collier | 14 | Falls of sides | While “holing” | |
| 1880 | June | 25 | Gartshore | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | Pat Dunnery | Pony driver | 16 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Was run over by hutches From Main body of report: Happened to a pony driver; it was his duty to draw the hutches from a lye or siding, where the colliers delivered them, to the pitbottom in races of 6 hutches. Before removal, however, he had to arrange the “race” that is, attach the hutches together by short coupling chains, insert a “snibble” in each, and remove a block placed upon the road for security until the load was about to be removed. It appears that on the day of the accident, he started a “race” of full hutches in the ordinary way, but before proceeding more than 30 yards he in some way got entangled with the hutches and was run over by them. It was found on after investigation that he had neglected to put in the snibbles before staring, and it is supposed that on discovering this overlook he had attempted to disengage his horse and so missed his footing, and was run over by the hutches. | |
| 1880 | June | 25 | Grougar | Hurlford | Eglinton Iron Co | John Hopkins | Pony driver | 13 | In coal mines | Fell before a “race” of hutches From Main body of report: Took place upon a “dook.” The deceased, a pony driver, was in the act of taking a “race” of empty hutches from the pit bottom to dispatch it down the dook, but having neglected to complete the coupling, as soon as the front part of the race passed over the brow of the dook, it got rapidly into motion, and capsized about 50 yards down. The deceased who sat upon the front overturned with it, and was found lying under the first hutch dead. | |
| 1880 | June | 25 | Kerse | Patna | M & Cunningham | John Skillen | Bottomer | 22 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Was caught by the cage when crossing the shaft From Main body of report: Occurred when the deceased, one of the bottomers, was crossing the shaft, by the cage being lowered upon him. | |
| 1880 | June | 25 | Lucknow | Stevenston | Eglinton Iron Co | Chas. Sharky | Brusher | 50 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | July | 1 | Longrigg No 1 | New Monkland, LKS | James Nimmo & Co | Robert Heaps | Collier | 37 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | July | 1 | Souterhouse | Coatbridge | Souterhouse Coal Co | Charles Lusk | Collier | 50 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | July | 2 | Muiredge No 1 | Leven, FIF | Bowman and Co | Archd. Izatt | Contractor | -- | Miscellaneous underground- on inclined planes | While riding on hutches he attempted to jump off at a level and was jammed | |
| 1880 | July | 7 | Hill | Dalserf, LKS | McLean, Dalzell & Co | John Copeland | Roadsman | 40 | On surface – miscellaneous | While disloading a fly wheel from a wagon by a crane the chain slipped and the wheel jammed him | |
| 1880 | July | 9 | Raith, Lady Pit | Auchtertool, FIF | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Alex. Todd | Labourer | 55 | On surface – miscellaneous | Jammed between a boiler and the chimney while assisting to get the former from a wagon to its seat | |
| 1880 | July | 16 | Farme | Rutherglen | A Fairie | Jas Turkentine | Brusher | 50 | In coal mines | Fall of roof whilst about to take it down | |
| 1880 | July | 28 | Balbardie Bog Pit | Bathgate, Linlithgow | Henry Walker & Son | Henry Philips | Roadsman | 44 | Sundries underground | Jammed by a pump rod which he was lifting. Died 4th August | |
| 1880 | August | 2 | Quarter | Denny | Wm Baird & Co | James Muir | Collier | 23 | In coal mines | Fall of coal and roof | |
| 1880 | August | 3 | Quarter No 4 | Hamilton, LKS | Colin Dunlop & Co | David White | Collier | 20 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | August | 7 | Addiewell No 11, Polbeth | West Calder, Edinburgh | Youngs Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Jas Campbell | Miner | 23 | In shale mines | Fall of shale while holing. Long wall | |
| 1880 | August | 9 | Kelty No 1 | Beath, FIF | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Peter Robertson | Collier | 33 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | August | 16 | Redburn | Irvine | Eglinton Iron Co | Wm Donaldson | Fireman | 35 | In coal mines | Explosion of fire damp From Main body of report: Happened to two experienced firemen. I understand that on the Saturday evening before the the accident a shift of men discovered, in an exploring mine in which they were working, a small accumulation of fire damp, I presume, from having laid open a “cutter” or “rent”. The gas did not prevent them completing their shift, but it had been of such importance as to induce them to call the oversman's attention to it, and according to his explanation he afterwards saw the fireman who had charge of the mine, and requested him to be careful on Monday morning while making his examination, in case the gas should continue to be given off and so accumulate during the cessation of labour on Sunday. Apparently some attention had been paid in consequence of this warning, for the deceased had taken the precaution to get his neighbour, who was fireman in another seam, to accompany him. So far as is known they descended the shaft shortly after midnight, or early on the morning of the accident, taking their safety lamps and open lights with them. Their usual time of returning having passed, those at the pithead began to fear for their safety, and the oversman and others descended the shaft in search of them; they ultimately went towards the place where firedamp had been discovered, and where evidence existed of a recent explosion. The ventilation was deranged, and after repeated attempts to enter the mine the sufferers were reached in the evening. They were burned, but it is more than probable that death was caused by inhaling the vitiated air of the mine. Notwithstanding that the deceased were experienced men, and specially cautioned in this particular case, they had inconsiderately gone into the mine with one or more open lights and come in contact with the gas, which under the circumstances, they ought to have anticipated. | |
| Jas Carswell | Fireman | 53 | In coal mines | ||||||||
| 1880 | August | 21 | Blackstone | Paisley | Blackstone Mineral Co | John Beveridge | Miner | 28 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fall of roof | Newspaper report - Renfrewshire pages |
| 1880 | August | 25 | Garscube | Maryhill | R Addie & Son | David Allan | Sinker | 24 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | August | 28 | Lumphinnans | Ballingry, FIF | Lumphinnans Coal Co | David Ross | locomotive brakesman | 17 | On surface – miscellaneous | Run over by wagons while attempting to sprag them | |
| 1880 | September | 1 | Hill | Dalserf, LKS | McLean, Dalzell & Co | Daniel Watson | Collier | -- | Falls of sides | While “holing” | |
| 1880 | September | 10 | Blantyre No 2 | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Dixon Ltd | Jno. Nichol | Apprentice mason | 14 | On surface – miscellaneous | Run over by a wagon while attempting to sprag it | |
| 1880 | September | 14 | Portland No 8 | Hurlford | Eglinton Iron Co | John Ross | Collier | 31 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | September | 15 | Raith, Lady Pit | Auchtertool, FIF | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Michael Miller | Roadsman | 45 | Falls of sides | While holing props which had been taken out to allow the head coal to fall. The props should have been placed outside of the unsupported head coal. Stooping | |
| 1880 | September | 17 | Lochhead | Dunfermline, FIF | Alex Wilson & Son | Robt. Ditchburn | Miner | 45 | In fire clay mines | Fall of fire clay while holing. Stoop and room | |
| 1880 | September | 20 | Blair | Dalry | Eglinton Iron Co | David Massey | Miner | 52 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Crushed by hutches on engine dook From Main body of report: Took place on an engine plane, and was occasioned by the deceased attempting to get on to a train while passing the end of the roadway which led in to his working place. | |
| 1880 | September | 21 | Trees No 1 | Bathgate, Linlithgow | Wm Torrance | Adam Spalding | Collier | 34 | Falls of sides | While “holing” in a 10 feet place | |
| 1880 | September | 22 | Twechar | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | Robert Rankine | Chain runner | 20 | In ironstone/fire clay mines | Found run over by hutches on a dook From Main body of report: Occurred upon an engine plane, the sufferer was the person engaged as chain runner, who after signalling the race away, sat down, between the rails, in front of it, and was run over. No one saw the accident take place, but a drawer who had been at the foot of the incline shortly before the accident, stated that after the deceased signalled the train away, more than once, he sat down between the rails about 5 yards in front of it, and that he himself sat for a short time beside him, but finding the race was not drawn away at the time, he returned to his working place leaving the deceased sitting between the rails; upon going to the lye, at the foot of the incline, some time after, he found the deceased lying dead under one of the hutches about three yards further up the “dook” than where he left him. At the time of the accident the deceased was working an extra shift, and it is supposed that after he was left alone he had been overcome by sleep. | |
| 1880 | September | 24 | Polton No 2 | Cockpen, Edinburgh | Polton Coal Co Ltd | Archd McNeil | Sinker | 36 | Falling from part way down | Fell off scaffold while repairing pump rods | |
| 1880 | September | 25 | Boig | N. Cumnock | Lanemark Coal Co | James Harper | Collier | 28 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | September | 30 | Barrwood | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | James Willans | Roadsman | 42 | In coal mines | Fall of roof | |
| 1880 | October | 1 | Canobie | Canobie | Duke of Buccleuch | James Murray | Collier | 48 | In coal mines | Fall of coal. Injured 17th July | |
| 1880 | October | 2 | Aitkenhead | Mount Florida | G Crookston and son | John Dagnet | Collier | 35 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | October | 9 | Auchenheath No 4 | Lesmahagow, LKS | Nitshill & Lesmahagow Coal Co | Robt. Morton | Collier | 48 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | October | 11 | Rosehall | Coatbridge | R Addie & Son | John Cummock | Collier | 25 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | October | 14 | Bathville No 4 | Bathgate, Linlithgow | James Wood | James Frame | Collier | 20 | Falls of roof | At face | |
| 1880 | October | 14 | Fergushill | Kilwinning | A Finnie & Son | John Campbell | Brusher | 33 | In coal mines | Fall of roof. Died 14 days after the accident | |
| 1880 | October | 19 | Longlee No 2 | Dalserf, LKS | Wm Barr & Sons | ---- Stewart | Collier | 13 | Falls of roof | On drawing road 6 yards from face. Stooping | First name is not given by the inspectors report. An anonymous contributor has supplied the firstname Walter |
| 1880 | October | 22 | Drumbow No 2 | New Monkland, LKS | James Gemmell | Archd McNeil | Collier | 14 | Falling from part way down | Fell from a mid-working. He had been allowed to act as bottomer for his grandfather, who had not come out that morning | |
| 1880 | October | 26 | Blairhall No 1 | Culross, PER | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Thos. Cant | Engineman | -- | Boilers bursting | See report From Main body of report: There was a steam boiler exploded at Valley Field Colliery, near Dunfermline, by which one man, the engineman, was killed. The accident happened about 5 o'clock in the morning while he was raising steam to begin work at seven. The only other person present was a tramp who escaped unhurt. He heard the engineman on the top of the boiler when it exploded. It was a Cornish boiler and was one of a range of four which had been at work for ten years at a pressure of 40lb on the square inch, and it appeared to have given way solely from weakness, the outside shell for a distance of 10 feet, near the wall on which it rested, having been reduced by corrosion from the original thickness of 7/16 inch to a thickness varying from 1/8 to 1/16 inch. It did not appear to have been regularly examined, for the flues around the outside shell of the boiler had been very dirty, and the drainage so bad that occasionally water lay along the outside shell where it rested on the mid-wall, and this water and damp had corroded the plates for the distance stated. The machinery and plant were being removed and in less than a fortnight there would have been no steam needed. | |
| 1880 | October | 28 | Southfield No 1 | Slamannan, STI | Wm Black & Sons | Jane Winning | Pit head worker | -- | Falling into shaft from surface | Ran a hutch into pit when cage was not there. There was a gate, in terms of General Rule 14, which she had not fastened up. | |
| 1880 | November | 11 | Westfield | West Calder | Wm Baird & Co | John Hayden | Miner | -- | Fall of limestone at face | ||
| 1880 | November | 12 | Sandlodge | Shetland | Sumburgh Mining Co Ltd | Mat. Tulloch | Miner | -- | Crushed by a pump-rod while passing under it | ||
| 1880 | November | 15 | Hill | Dalserf, LKS | McLean, Dalzell & Co | John Wardrop | Collier | 21 | Falls of roof | At face. Stooping | |
| 1880 | November | 22 | Shawfield | Carluke, LKS | John Wilson | James Allan | Collier | 14 | Miscellaneous underground- on inclined planes | Crushed by bogie and tubs on endless rope incline | |
| 1880 | November | 25 | Greenfield No 1 | Hamilton, LKS | Hamilton Coal Co | Thos. Wyper | Drawer | 15 | Falls of roof | On drawing road | |
| 1880 | November | 26 | Loanhead | Lasswade, Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co | Mich. Donnachy | Drawer | 16 | Falling from part way down | Fell from a level onto the incline. Edge seam | |
| 1880 | November | 29 | Blantyre No 3 Splint | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Dixon Ltd | James Neilson | Brusher | 50 | Falls of roof | In a road while redding a fall | |
| 1880 | November | 26 | Grangemouth | Grangemouth, STI | Grangemouth Coal Co | Peter Bennet | Wagoner | 50 | On surface – miscellaneous | Jammed between wagons | |
| 1880 | December | 3 | Springside | Dreghorn | A Kenneth & Son | Thomas Mackie | Collier | 21 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | December | 4 | Penicuik | Penicuik, Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co | Alex Cairns | Miner | 36 | In ironstone mines | Fell down a steep travelling way while building the sides. Edge seam, angle 58 degrees. Long wall | |
| 1880 | December | 6 | Addiewell No 2 | West Calder, Edinburgh | Youngs Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Hugh Lawlor | Trimmer | 21 | In shale mines | Struck by a train of empty wagons which were passing the screens | |
| 1880 | December | 15 | Hartwoodhill | David Neil | Not listed | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Newspaper report | ||||
| 1880 | December | 15 | Craigneuk | James Rox | Not listed | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Newspaper report | ||||
| 1880 | December | 19 | Muiredge No 1 | Leven, FIF | Bowman and Co | James Braid | Reddsman | -- | In shafts – ropes and chains breaking | Breakage of wire rope. It was supposed that the rope went off the pulley and the fall of the cage, about 13 feet, snapped the rope where it struck the axle. It was a very stormy morning with snow falling heavily at the time. | |
| James Matheson | reddsman | -- | |||||||||
| 1880 | December | 21 | Garriongill | Cambusnethan, LKS | Coltness Iron Co | Pat Wilson | Labourer | 19 | On surface – miscellaneous | Run over by a wagon while attempting to sprag it | |
| 1880 | December | 21 | Portland No 8 | Hurlford | Eglinton Iron Co | Wm Gray | Collier | 38 | In coal mines | Fall of coal | |
| 1880 | December | 25 | Craighead No 2 | Blantyre. LKS | Wm Baird & Co | Henry Gardner | Brusher | -- | Miscellaneous underground- explosions of gunpowder | Struck with stones from a shot | |
| 1880 | December | 27 | Stonelaw | Rutherglen | F R Reid | John Yuile | Collier | 52 | In coal mines | Fall of roof |