| Accidents occuring during 1900 but reported in 1901 report | |||||||||||
| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Occupation | Age | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1900 | April | 4 | Craighead No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Brown | Miner | 39 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face(injured on 4th April 1900 and died on 23rd February 1901) | |
| 1900 | July | 7 | Candie | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Alexander Williamson | Miner | 63 | Falls of roof | Fall of stone at face. Died 18th April, 1901. | |
| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Occupation | Age | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1901 | January | 8 | Foulford | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Stott | Wagon shunter | 44 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | A labourer was bringing forward two loaded trucks from the back-lye to a dross washer, leaving nine loaded trucks standing trigged in the back-lye. After proceeding some distance he observed that the nine trucks had got away, and were following him. Shouting to a fellow workman to take charge of the two trucks, he ran back to secure the nine, but failed to stop them. They overtook the others, and drove them with some violence against some empty trucks standing in front. Deceased had at the moment gone between two of these to couple them, and was crushed between the buffers. He died five hours afterwards. | |
| 1901 | January | 11 | Clyde | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Isaac Collison | Miner | 47 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | Crushed by a full hutch while drawing in front instead of behind | Newspaper Report - Hamilton pages |
| 1901 | January | 11 | Limefield (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Richard Sneddon | Miner | 32 | Underground by explosives | Deceased worked in an upset rising 1 in 2. and in the usual way bored and charged holes for shots at the face, four "yankee" or holing shots were placed at different parts, and over these were two "brairder" shots. When everything was ready deceased began to ignite the fuse of each shot, and apparently he had trouble in getting the fuse of one of the "brairders" to ignite, which caused delay, and one of the shots exploded and he was thrown to the bottom of the upset, a distance of 40 feet, and before help could reach him the remainder of the shots, except one, exploded. The fuse of the unexploded shot, a "brairder," showed signs of a light having been applied to it. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1901 | January | 11 | Shields | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd | George Wright | Miner | 30 | Underground by explosives | While forcing 1 ½ lbs of compressed gunpowder into a shot hole, drilled in sandstone, apparently by means of a steel jumper, the charge exploded. | Newspaper Report |
| 1901 | January | 12 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | John Chalmers | Jigger engineman | 33 | On surface – miscellaneous | After putting a driving belt upon a pulley, deceased was returning along a gangway underneath the pithead scaffold. At a point where the clear height was 4 ft. 2 in. his head apparently came against an overhead beam, he overbalanced and fell to the ground, a distance of 16 ft., striking the end of a truck as he fell. He sustained injuries which resulted fatally ten hours afterwards. | Newspaper report - Auchterderran pages |
| 1901 | January | 15 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | Robert Hamilton | Fireman | 32 | Falls of roof | Deceased men were instantaneously killed by the sudden fall of about 70 tons of roof consisting of rock bands and fakes, intersected by numerous lypes and joints. The road was 9 to 10 feet in width, and the roof was supported by bars 1 foot apart. Part of it hart been repaired and re timbered on the previous night. It was inspected by Hamilton and the oversman about an hour before the accident took place, and considered to be in safe condition. | |
| James Black | Wheeler | 40 | |||||||||
| 1901 | January | 21 | Wallyford | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Ltd | William Hamilton | Sinker | 37 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased and other sinkers were enlarging a shaft and a few fathoms below them was a scaffold on which the debris fell. The enlargement was proceeding at a point a short distance below the Great Seam and where a crosscut mine left the shaft to cut the seam. The previous shift had left their work fearing a fall and the contractor and others were in the shaft for the purpose of making it secure when a large quantity of stone fell away above the crosscut, and the two deceased fell with it to the scaffold below, the contractor and others escaping with difficulty | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| Patrick Hooligan | Sinker | 47 | |||||||||
| 1901 | January | 22 | Carmuir | Stirling | Carmuir Coal Co Ltd | Robert Brownlee | Labourer | 59 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased and another were shifting forward some loaded trucks to clear the taillye at a screen, deceased being at the left rear buffer. The truck under the screen being fully loaded, the screenman removed the trig, and permitted it to gravitate forward, meantime giving his attention to trigging up the succeeding empty trucks in the proper position. The loaded truck moved further than he anticipated, overtook the others, and crushed deceased against the buffer, killing him almost instantly. | Newspaper reports - Stirlingshire accidents |
| 1901 | January | 23 | Loanhead | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Robert Notman | Miner | 36 | Underground – suffocation by natural gases | About the beginning of the year a fire was discovered in the rise workings of the Corbie Craig Coal Seam, and to extinguish it the air current was cut off by means of stoppings. The result was that the workings referred to and the workings of other seams in the same district were filled with gases from the fire and black damp. When the workings were re-opened deceased, who with others was engaged at that work, wandered into another section in search of some tools, and was suffocated. | |
| 1901 | January | 23 | Kirkwood | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Matthew Savage | Miner | 37 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | He entered a disused heading which was not fenced off and had not been inspected by the fireman. His naked lamp ignited an accumulation of fire damp From Main body of report: Happened in Kirk wood Colliery, owned by the Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Company, Limited, to a miner who, with an open light, entered a disused heading which was not fenced off and had not been inspected by the fireman. After the explosion the owners were induced to work the seam with safety lamps, but failing to come to an agreement with the miners the working of the seam was stopped for months. |
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| 1901 | January | 25 | Burnt Broom | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co, Ltd | John Murray | Waggon trimmer | 25 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While shifting a waggon below the scree he was crushed against a post supporting the scaffold | |
| 1901 | January | 25 | Haughhead | Lanark | Haughhead Coal Co Ltd | Patrick Reddy | Miner | 38 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | The fireman found gas in two adjoining working places. After, it is said, he cleared out the gas from one place and permitting the miners to commence work in it with naked lights, he and two others were clearing out the gas with safety lamps in the other place when firedamp ignited at the naked light of Reddy, who was in the place from which the fireman said he had expelled the gas. Other 3 men were injured by the explosion From Main body of report: Happened in Haughhead Pit, and by it the fireman and a miner lost their lives, and other three men were injured. In making his morning inspection the fireman found gas in two adjoining long-wall working places. After, it is said, clearing out the gas from one place, and allowing the miners to commence work in it with open lights, he and other two miners began with safety lamps to clear out the gas from the other place, when firedamp ignited at the naked light of one of the miners who had just entered the place from which the fireman said he had expelled the gas. There is no doubt in my mind that the fireman had not cleared away the gas in the place where it was ignited, and he was wrong in permitting any of the workmen to enter these places until the firedamp was entirely dispelled from both. Had there been an adequate amount of ventilation the gas would not have accumulated at the point where it was ignited. | |
| Graham Perrie | Fireman | 43 | |||||||||
| 1901 | January | 25 | Glenbuck, Davie Pit | Ayr | Cairntable Gas Coal Co, Ltd | Wm. Wilson | Miner | 21 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while drawing props | Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages |
| 1901 | January | 27 | Holytown No 8 Pit | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Matthew Mackinnon | Reddsman | 38 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Without sanction the fireman allowed the deceased to inspect the workings instead of doing it himself and while doing so with a naked light he ignited fire damp From Main body of report: Happened in Holytown No. 8 Pit. The fire-man, without sanction, took upon himself to delegate his duty of inspecting the workings previous to the commencement of the shift to a reddsman, and while the latter was making the inspection with a naked light instead of a safety lamp he encountered an accumulation of firedamp with the usual result of such folly. |
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| 1901 | January | 30 | Candie | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John Dick | Coal cleaner | 17 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was picking stones in a truck which was being loaded at a screen, the lower end of which was supported by a beam which crossed the road 5 ½ inches above the lip of the truck. The screenman went to shift the truck forward, and warned deceased of his intention, but it was not clear that the latter heard or understood him. He was then standing on the lip of the truck, clear of the screen, but got down into the truck, which in moving forward caught and crushed his head against the cross-beam referred to. He succumbed eight days later. | |
| 1901 | February | 4 | Balbardie | Linlithgow | Balbardie Colliery Co | Alexander Reid | Miner | 23 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased and his neighbour were brushing a level road when a stone fell off the side and killed him instantly | |
| 1901 | February | 6 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Peter Young | Miner | 20 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at face of working face in Ell Coal stooping section. The fall was 12 feet by 11 ½ feet and 3 ½ feet high, and was caused by a want of props. | |
| 1901 | February | 7 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Robert Tagg | Engineer | 30 | Haulage – on machinery | Deceased was engaged with several others erecting a pump underground, and when placing a cylinder in position the support on which it hung slipped from its place, and, in falling, struck him on the head. He died from his injury 11 days afterwards. | |
| 1901 | February | 9 | Redding | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John McAulay | Miner | 27 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased and some others were riding on a tank locomotive which was about to lift some carriages in which the miners were to be conveyed to their work. Owing to the darkness, the driver failed to see that the carriages had been left standing nearer to the point from which he was approaching than wan usual. He applied his brake and reversed the locomotive at the usual place, but owing to the skidding of the wheels he failed to pull up in time. Deceased, who was sitting on the front footplate, was killed instantaneously. The men had no authority to ride upon the locomotive ; but it appeared to have been permitted to become an established practice. | |
| 1901 | February | 15 | Hill of Beath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Patrick McRoberts | oncostman | 30 | Underground fires | Suffocated by gases from an underground fire. | See Report. |
| James McFarlane | oncostman | 44 | |||||||||
| Andrew Nasmyth | Fireman | 34 | |||||||||
| Robert Birrell | Oversman | 33 | |||||||||
| Alexander Carr | oncostman | 43 | |||||||||
| Martin McTearn | oncostman | 36 | |||||||||
| James Reid | Miner | 35 | |||||||||
| 1901 | February | 16 | Wemyss | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Christie | Miner | 64 | Falls of roof | Deceased was building a pillar in a long wall level in a seam 7 feet in thickness, when about 15 cwts. of coal and stone fell from between two parallel lypes and killed him instantly. There were no gibs under the coal, and the nearest rance was 12 feet distant. | |
| 1901 | February | 20 | Haugh No 2 Pit | Stirling | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Patrick Haggerty | Drawer | 19 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | Run over by hutches on a self acting incline. He was taking an empty hutch along a line of rails parallel to the incline and apparently thinking that the hutches were running into him, he stepped aside in front of the descending full hutches | |
| 1901 | February | 23 | Craighead No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Brown | See entry under 4th April 1900 at top of page | ||||
| 1901 | February | 25 | Limerigg | Stirling | John Nimmo & Son Ltd | Robert Guinney | Pit bottomer | 67 | Shaft accidents – falling from part way down | Deceased was engaged at a mid-working, and when about to put a loaded tub on the cage it moved up, and he and the tub were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 44 fathoms. When the cage was in its position at the mid-working the engineman neglected to pin down his brake, and the weight of the opposite cage with empty tub and rope caused it to descend, at the same time causing the cage at mid-working to ascend, thus leaving the shaft unprotected. | |
| 1901 | February | 25 | Gilbertfield No 2 Pit | Lanark | Cambuslang Coal Co Ltd | Patrick Kilrain | Pony driver | 18 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | He seems to have fallen off the front of a “race” of full hutches and was run over | |
| 1901 | March | 2 | Oxenford | Edinburgh | A White & Co | John Donaldson | Miner | 39 | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged with another workman withdrawing props after the coal stoop had been extracted, when a fall took place and he was partly buried, attempts were made to rescue him, but other falls occurring he was completely buried. | |
| 1901 | March | 4 | Limefield (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Thomas Sneddon | Miner | 20 | Falls of roof | Fall of top shale from the roof near the face of a level. | |
| 1901 | March | 7 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Bell Heggie | oncostman | 53 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | Deceased and several others were building brick side walls in a dook about 1,000 yards in length, having an average dip of 1 in 5. The dook was laid with a double road throughout, and was worked temporarily as a self-acting incline, the descending tubs, loaded with building materials, pulling up the empties. No blocks were used at dook head. The dook head men, having left a loaded tub standing double snibbled at the top of the incline, brought forward a second one, which was allowed to buffer against the standing tub. The impact carried both tubs on to the incline, where the two snibbles were unable to hold them, and they ran away. Deceased, who was about 400 yards down, was struck by the tubs, and sustained injuries which terminated fatally about an hour afterwards. | |
| 1901 | March | 11 | Blair No 2 Pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | John Smith | Miner | 19 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. Caused apparently by want of props | |
| 1901 | March | 11 | East Plean | Stirling | Plean Colliery Co | James Gemmell | Miner | 40 | Falls of side | Fall of stone from the side of working face | |
| 1901 | March | 14 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Thomas McEwan | Pin boy | 16 | On surface – by machinery | Deceased had been endeavouring to unhook a miner's pin or token from a nail underneath the body of a loaded tub. While crossing in front of the tub, his foot was caught by the creeper chain which dragged him down, fracturing and tearing off the leg below the knee. He succumbed to his injuries on the following morning. | |
| 1901 | March | 14 | Neilsland | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Wm. Murphy | Pony driver | 19 | Falls of side | Fall of side on horse road | Newspaper Report - Hamilton pages |
| 1901 | March | 14 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | John Scott | Miner | 25 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased had gone to the dip side of his face and withdrawn his sprags and in returning he passed between the face and a prop when the coal from which the sprags had been withdrawn came away and fatally crushed him against the prop | |
| 1901 | March | 15 | Fordell | Fife | Fordell Trustees | William Duncan | Labourer | 72 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While moving an empty wagon he allowed it to move too quickly down an incline, and, after following it for a considerable distance, attempting to put on the brake, he became exhausted and fell. Died on 4th August, never having resumed work. | |
| 1901 | March | 18 | Belhaven | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | James Swan | Wagon shifter | 45 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While shifting a wagon below the screen he was jammed against a post supporting the scaffold. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1901 | March | 18 | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Adam Pow | Miner | 29 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1901 | March | 19 | Dysart | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd | James Leslie | Miner | 22 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased was about to take down some head coal which had been shorn on both sides. While cutting out the bridge in front of the rise side shearings the head coal suddenly came down, part of it falling upon the deceased and causing injuries to which he succumbed while being taking outbye | |
| 1901 | March | 21 | Bentrigg | Lanark | Larkhall Collieries Ltd | John Ireland | Miner | 43 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | When clearing out a shaft from the bottom a rush of clay and mud engulfed him. | |
| 1901 | March | 29 | Dalquhandy | Lanark | Waddell & Son | James Gloag | Miner | 42 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | April | 1 | Blair No 9 Pit | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Cooper | Drawer | 37 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | While drawing in front of seven empty hutches which he was attempting to take down a road he was overpowered and crushed against the end of the road | |
| 1901 | April | 8 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Harrower | Miner | 17 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased worked in a place 17 feet wide going to the rise in in a seam 4 ½ feet thick. The coal had been holed and a shot fired which did not bring it down, and they appear to have been improving the holing previous to firing another shot when the coal came over | Newspaper report - Clackmannan pages |
| James Harrower | Miner | 23 | |||||||||
| 1901 | April | 8 | Daldowie | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co, Ltd | Hugh Morrison | Brusher | 42 | Underground by explosives | A spark from his lamp which was, contrary to the regulations, on his cap ignited compressed gunpowder in his case which he had opened | |
| 1901 | April | 11 | Cultrigg | Linlithgow | Barr & Thornton | John Carruthers | Drawer | 15 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased had just descended a shaft 35 fathoms in depth, where no bottomer was employed. He signalled the cage clear, and a moment later, as it had not been raised, attempted to cross upon it to the other side of the shaft. As he was entering it, the cage was raised, he was caught between it and the side of the shaft, was dragged up for some distance, and fell back into the bottom, being killed instantly. | |
| 1901 | April | 12 | Chapel | Lanark | Chapel Coal Co Ltd | Annie Reynolds | Coal cleaner | 17 | On surface – by machinery | The shoot which conveyed the nuts from the picking table to a hopper underneath had become choked, owing to the hopper being full. Deceased placed her foot upon the nuts, and was pushing them down, when it was caught by the plates of the picking table ; her leg was drawn in and the lower part of her body was severely crushed, resulting in her death three hours afterwards. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1901 | April | 15 | Donibristle | Fife | Donibristle Coal Co | William Archibald | Miner | 50 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased was taking off coal from the side of a stoop when the coal suddenly gave a burst; to escape injury he threw himself back and his head came into violent contact with a rail. He died from his injuries 4 days afterwards | |
| 1901 | April | 15 | Daldowie | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co, Ltd | William Dick | Miner | 61 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | Newspaper reports - Lanarkshire accidents |
| 1901 | April | 16 | Banknock Victoria Pit | Stirling | Young's Collieries Ltd | Thomas Millar | Miner | 47 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | Newspaper reports - Stirlingshire accidents |
| 1901 | April | 16 | Philpstoun (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | James Ross & Co | Magnus Dickson | Miner | 24 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | The mine dips from the surface, with an inclination averaging 1 in 3 ¾. An empty tub had been placed on the level scaffold at mine mouth, close to a block set to guard the incline. The block was 2 ins. thick, and crossed one rail only. Three other empties were pushed forward, and buffered against the one referred to, driving it over the block, and sending it down the incline. Deceased was at the moment travelling up the incline, and was struck by the runaway tub while he was endeavouring to reach a manhole, receiving injuries which terminated fatally fifteen minutes afterwards. | Newspaper reports - Lothian accidents |
| 1901 | April | 18 | Candie | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Alexander Williamson | See entry under 7th July 1900 at top of page | ||||
| 1901 | April | 18 | Donibristle | Fife | William Beveridge | Not listed | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Newspaper report - Beath pages | |||
| 1901 | April | 23 | Craighead No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | John McKay | Drawer | 21 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on road while taking in an empty hutch | NB Deceased most likely Jonas Giga. Newspaper Report - Blantyre pages |
| 1901 | April | 23 | Drumpellar Nos 3&4 Pits | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Richard Nisbet | Miner | 48 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | While illegally riding in an empty hutch attached to a race of full hutches coming down a haulage road they ran off the rails and his spine was broken | Newspaper report - Old Monkland pages |
| 1901 | April | 25 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Robert Beveridge | Miner | 69 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | Deceased was travelling down a self-acting incline 160 fms. in length, and having an average dip of 1 in 5. He was informed that a ''wreck" had taken place shortly before, owing to the ascending and descending sets colliding, but appeared to think he could get down the brae before the traffic was resumed. He had gone down about 70 fms. when the repairers, having set the tubs on the rails, signalled to the wheeler, and the tubs were set in motion. Deceased appears to have been tripped by the ropes, or struck by the empty tubs. He fell amongst them, and was crushed against the roof, sustaining injuries to which he succumbed while on the way to pit bottom. The repairers had not observed his light in the road, and believed he had been in the dark. | |
| 1901 | April | 30 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Walter Brown | Miner | 34 | Falls of roof | Deceased was taking off coal at the face, when the roof fell on him. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | May | 3 | Dechmont No 1 Pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | John McAllister | Repairer | 26 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | The rope came off the pithead pulley just as the cage with 8 men in it reached the pithead. When the cage dropped the deceased either jumped off or fell from the cage down the shaft. A gland clamped to the rope with a small pulley attached, left on by inadvertence by men working in the shaft, was the cause of the rope coming out of the groove in the pulley | Newspaper Report |
| 1901 | May | 3 | Knownoble | Lanark | Kerr & Mitchell | Peter McArdale | Miner | 39 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased was brushing a road in a long wall working. The brushing which consisted of blaes, fire clay and ironstone balls was too soft to require blasting and was usually taken down with the pick. He appeared to have shorn it all along one side, and to have been relieving a ball on the other side when a mass of fireclay fell upon him causing spinal and other injuries which resulted in his death 6 months later | |
| 1901 | May | 6 | Monkland | Lanark | Jas Dunlop & Co (1900) Ltd | Hugh Sloan | Miner | 25 | Falls of roof | Fall from roof at face of long wall in upper Drumgray seam. The fall was 20 ft. long. 3 ft. wide, and 1 ft. thick and came away from a crack and swung some timber. | |
| 1901 | May | 7 | Espieside | Lanark | James Wood, Ltd | William Stewart | Roadsman | 33 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on drawing road while repairing it. Another man was injured. | |
| 1901 | May | 8 | Farme | Lanark | Farme Coal Co, Ltd | Robert Falls | Brusher | 40 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1901 | May | 15 | Loganlea | Edinburgh | Loganlea Coal Co Ltd | James McFarlane | Pony driver | 15 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | Deceased appeared to have been riding outbye on the first of a set of loaded tubs, and to have fallen in front of them, probably owing to his head having come in contact with a haulage rope roller, which was hung from the roof. He was found lying underneath the leading tub. His skull had been fractured. | |
| 1901 | May | 16 | Gilmilnscroft No 3 Pit | Ayr | Gauchalland Coal Co | James Crichton | Fireman | 38 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | While “waffling” gas along with 2 roadsmen and a miner from a working place in which he had found an accumulation when making his inspection, an explosion happened. It was said that another man came in with a naked light and this ignited the gas, but this seems uncertain. Other 3 men were injured From Main body of report: Took place in No. 3 Pit, Gilmilnscroft Colliery, Ayrshire, and resulted in the death of the fireman and the injury of three other workmen. A level crosscut mine, 145 yards in length, was driven from the Main to the Major seam, and at the time of the explosion a heading, 20 yards in length, was driven in the coal, and a level at right angles to it for about the same distance was driven from the end of the mine. A wooden rhone, 2 1/2 feet by 2 feet in section, was led in to the end of the mine, and from that point bratticing was led to the face of the two working places. The ventilating current, such as it was, went in the mine, round the bratticing to the heading face, thence to the level face, and back through the wooden rhone. The coal gave off firedamp freely, and consequently safety lamps were used. The lamp station was at the outer end of the mine, and this was also the station appointed by the manager in terms of General Rule 4. It appears that on the morning of the explosion the fireman found at the face of the heading an accumulation of gas which the ordinary ventilation was unable to clear away, and he got the assistance of two miners and a roadsman to assist him to endeavour to "waff" it out by means of pieces of brattice cloth. Leaving their lamps at the foot of the heading, they were trying by waving or "waffing" the brattice cloth to dislodge the gas from the heading when another roadsman came in carrying, it was stated by one of the miners, although it was not afterwards proved against him, a naked light on his cap. Just as he reached the foot of the heading the explosion took place. The presence of firedamp had been reported in this working place daily for five weeks, and the miners working on the previous night shift had to be withdrawn on account of the gas accumulating. Every morning for some time the fireman got the assistance of the workmen to remove by "waffing" the gas which the ventilating current in accordance with General Rule 1 ought to have prevented from accumulating. The safety lamps were lighted below-ground instead of on the surface, contrary to Special Rule 86. The fireman who was appointed to perform the duties required by General Rule 10 (i) delegated these duties to another man, and contravened Special Rule 38 by failing to prevent the workmen from entering their working place until a report had been made that it was safe. The workmen also contravened General Rule 4 by passing the station before the workings beyond it had been stated by the fireman to be safe. The investigation of this explosion revealed an utter disregard of the regulations by all concerned, from the manager downwards. With your sanction the manager was charged with failing to provide adequate ventilation in terms of General Rule 1, and after a trial which extended into the third day he was convicted and fined £15. An appeal against the conviction was intimated, but the case was not carried farther. The overman was convicted under Special Rule 2 of failing to see that the safety lamps were lighted, &c. on the surface in terms of Special Rule 86, and the manager was also charged with the same offence, but the charge against him was withdrawn. The roadsman who came in to the foot of the heading at the time of the explosion was charged with having a naked light in a place where safety lamps were used, contrary to Special Rule 87 (5), but the sheriff found the charge "not proven." | |
| 1901 | May | 18 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | John Richmond | Miner | 23 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place. | |
| 1901 | May | 20 | South Broadrigg | Linlithgow | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John McCabe | Drawer | 13 | Falls of roof | The roof fell on deceased while he was filling a hutch with coal at the working face. The roof is a treacherous fire-clay. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1901 | May | 21 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Daniel Bain | Joiner | 23 | On surface – by machinery | While engaged erecting a fence around a fan engine while it was in motion he was caught by the crank. | |
| 1901 | May | 23 | Banknock Cannerton Pit | Stirling | Young's Collieries Ltd | John Tripney | Miner | 55 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | Newspaper reports - Stirlingshire accidents |
| 1901 | May | 24 | Lassodie | Fife | Thomas Spowart & Co Ltd | William Taylor | Brusher | 37 | Falls of side | Deceased and another workman were engaged brushing a heading road when the roof suddenly fell. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | May | 24 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Gray | Brusher | 48 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased and fifteen workmen were being raised to the surface after the day's work was done, and by some unexplained cause he fell off the cage. The space between the end of the shaft and the cage was insufficient to allow him to fall into the shaft and he was dragged up to a "ring" and forced into its space and when the cage passed he dropped to the bottom a distance of 134 fathoms. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | May | 28 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | John Bell | Drawer | 17 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | Deceased was a drawer, but assisted at the foot of a cut-chain brae. Having put an empty tub on one end of the chain, a loaded tub was pushed over, and it ran away, and before he could get clear he was caught and so severely crushed against the wall side that he died six hours afterwards. The cause of the tub running away was the opening of a "false" link in the chain. | |
| 1901 | May | 29 | Hallside | Lanark | James Dunlop & Co Ltd | Michael Docherty | Brusher | 28 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof while travelling along a working face not in use | |
| 1901 | June | 2 | Bothwell Park No 1 pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Bunyan | shanksman | 26 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He went into the cage seat to clean it when the cage came down on him | |
| 1901 | June | 3 | South Broadrigg | Linlithgow | John Nimmo & Son Ltd | Thomas Marshall | Miner | 53 | Falls of side | Deceased was breaking away a place in a. stoop and room working, in a seam 3 ft. thick, having a roof of fakey fireclay. He had fired a bursting and a cut shot in the coal, and, finding that they had shaken the overhanging fireclay, he proceeded to secure it with a prop. While setting the prop the fireclay fell upon him, causing injuries which resulted fatally two days afterwards. | |
| 1901 | June | 4 | Northrigg | Linlithgow | James Wood, Ltd | Gavin Tudhope | Pit bottomer | 23 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased leaned over a gate, fencing the shaft at a mid-working, to cry to the bottom of the shaft 13 fathoms below, when one of the cages running in the shaft came down and caught his head. He appears either to have thought the cages were not running or thought he was in a safe position. | |
| 1901 | June | 12 | Douglas Park No 1 Pit | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | James Dickson | Miner | 18 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | Newspaper report- Bothwell pages |
| 1901 | June | 15 | Cousland (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | Robert Stirling | Miner | 30 | Underground by explosives | Deceased had six shots charged and ready to fire at the face of an upset, and he appears to have attempted to light all the shots at once, with the result that one exploded before he had lit them all. | |
| 1901 | June | 17 | Neilsland | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | David Gallacher | Pump attendant | 38 | Underground by machinery | Caught by pump machinery | |
| 1901 | June | 19 | Herbertshire No 2 Pit | Stirling | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | John Caldwell | Brusher | 27 | Falls of side | Fall of side at working face. A prop was being got ready to set beneath it | |
| 1901 | June | 21 | Bothwell Park No 1 pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Walter Grant | Roadsman | 18 | Underground by machinery | While holding up a haulage rope while another man cut a notch in a crown, the haulage engine was started and his arm was drawn in round a pulley | |
| 1901 | June | 25 | Westfield (Limestone) | Edinburgh | William Baird & Co Ltd | James Watson | Miner | 27 | Metalliferous Mines | After firing a shot in a thick seam of limestone he returned and was cuaght by the fall of a large block loosened by the shot | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1901 | June | 28 | Gilbertfield No 2 Pit | Lanark | Cambuslang Coal Co Ltd | Wm Livingstone | Miner | 30 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1901 | July | 1 | Warrix | Ayr | Bourtreehill Coal Co | James Watson | Brusher | 37 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at brushing face. He knocked out a crown to fire a shot when the roof gave way. | |
| 1901 | July | 3 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Wil. Ballingall | Wagon weigher | 50 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Run over by a wagon near a coal washer. He had left his cabin to call attention to something wrong with the washer. He had a wooden leg. | |
| 1901 | July | 11 | Hattonrigg No 4 pit | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Wm Laggan | Bottomer | 23 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | When descending in the cage from a mid working the cage caught him. He seems to have attempted to leave the cage after it commenced to descend | Newspaper report- Bothwell pages |
| 1901 | July | 22 | Dechmont No 2 Pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Daniel Docherty | Drawer | 28 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While taking a hutch down a “cuddie” brae the rope broke and the “cuddie” ran down upon him | |
| 1901 | July | 22 | Blantyre No 3 pit | Lanark | Wm. Dixon Ltd | Thos. Armstrong | Waggon shifter | 20 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While illegally spragging a waggon with a prop the sprag struck and threw him in front of the wheels which ran over him | |
| 1901 | July | 24 | Auchinraith No 1 pit | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Henry Tennant | Miner | 17 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | While descending in the cage with other 6 men the cage in some unexplained manner left the slides and they fell out | Newspaper Report - Blantyre pages |
| James McGurk | Bottomer | 37 | |||||||||
| 1901 | July | 29 | Sheriffyards | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | John Murray | Screenman | 45 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While coming out below the screens he does not appear to have noticed a train of empty wagons which were being pushed forward by a locomotive engine. The guard was on the leading wagon, and shouted to warn deceased. | |
| 1901 | July | 30 | Fallahill | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | John Grant | Brusher | 40 | Falls of roof | Deceased worked alone, and was engaged brushing a road, and on the fireman making his round of inspection he was discovered under a stone quite dead. From the position it was thought deceased had been taking out props when the roof fell on him. | |
| 1901 | August | 1 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | John Devlin | Miner | 19 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in the waste close to his working face in Ell Coal stooping section. He ought not to have entered the waste where the props had been removed. | |
| 1901 | August | 1 | Lightshaw | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Gavin Robb | Hooker-on | 13 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While disconnecting a hutch of props from a tail chain on surface haulage road when in front of it he fell, and the hutch ran over him. | |
| 1901 | August | 2 | South Broadrigg | Linlithgow | John Nimmo & Son Ltd | William McCorrie | Miner | 31 | Falls of side | At the end of deceased's first shift in the pit he was holing the coal in a close place when a piece of it fell from a lype and crushed his head. | |
| 1901 | August | 2 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Herd | Repairer | 34 | Falls of roof | While repairing an engine dook a large stone fell upon him. | |
| 1901 | August | 3 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | John Morgan | Miner | 43 | Falls of side | Deceased and several others were widening out a 12 ft. place in a seam 3 ft. 9 ins. in thickness, and transforming it into a longwall heading. He was lying holing at a point about six or eight feet from which a shot hole had already been drilled and charged, when a piece of coal, 6ft.5 ins. by 2 ft. 5 ins. at extremes, suddenly burst off the face and fell upon him. causing injuries to which he succumbed the same day. | Newspaper report - Clackmannan pages |
| 1901 | August | 5 | Harburn (Limestone) | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | George Ritchie | Drawer | 16 | Metalliferous Mines | While filling a hutch with limestone at the face of a dook a mass of limestone fell from the side near the roof. | |
| 1901 | August | 8 | Riddochhill | Linlithgow | Gavin Paul & Sons Ltd | Peter Connelly | Miner | 28 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While deceased was following up a hutch containing some props on a short "cuddie brae" the rope broke, and he was forced backward by the hutch and jammed against a tree. The rope was made of steel wire, and was of ample strength. The cause of the fracture was not ascertained. | |
| 1901 | August | 9 | Rankinston No 1 pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Hugh Kirk | Engineman | 37 | Surface – miscellaneous | When starting the pumping engine the stop valve casing burst and the escaping steam scalded him to death | |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Craighead No 1 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Frederick Marks | Miner | 28 | Falls of roof | In stepping back to avoid a piece of coal which fell from the roof he slipped and fell against a hutch | |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Gartshore No 2 Pit | Dumbarton | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | John Gallacher | Drawer | 19 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | Newspaper reports - Stirlingshire accidents |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Kirkwood No 1 and 2 pits | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Thomas Stirling | Miner | 32 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place. | |
| 1901 | August | 15 | Woodhill No 8 Pit | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | James Murphy | Labourer | 76 | Surface – miscellaneous | When tipping a hutch of fire-clay into a waggon he fell off the unfenced gangway, a hight of 6 ½ feet | |
| 1901 | August | 16 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Japp | Fireman | 65 | Falls of roof | A miner was taking a cut off the inbye side of a stoop in a seam .5ft 10in. in thickness. Hearing the roof working at the level road, he went out and set some timber, and while doing so deceased approached from the outbye side. The miner reported what had happened, and deceased passed inbye, tapping the roof with a hand hammer. He had only gone a few yards, when a triangular stone 5 ft. by 2 ft. 3 in. at extremes, and 9 in. in thickness, fell from a lype hitherto unseen, and killed him instantly. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | August | 19 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | John Wilson | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof | The roof collapsed over a large area at the face of a long wall road in the Lochgelly Splint seam. | Newspaper report - Ballingry pages |
| 1901 | August | 19 | Douglas | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | John Hope | Miner | 24 | Falls of roof | Deceased worked in a room 9 to l10 feet wide. The face was standing on an upthrow of 3 ½ feet, and the left side had stripped an unproved upthrow for a distance of 14 feet. No one witnessed the accident, but they were believed to have fired a shot at the face, and to have been engaged in working off the loose stuff, when the roof burst in upon them, completely burying them. | |
| James Hope | Miner | 26 | |||||||||
| 1901 | August | 19 | Linridge | Lanark | John Horn & Co | William Craig | Miner | 14 | Shaft accidents – overwinding | Deceased and his father were ascending an upcast shaft, 34 fathoms in depth on a single decked cage worked by a single cylindered horizontal engine. As they approached the surface deceased remarked that they were going too fast. The cage was raised a considerable distance above the upper scaffold, and fearing that it was to be overwound, the father leaped off, fell upon the roof of the pithead house and rolledown upon the scaffold. Deceased jumped or fell from the cage, landed upon the pavilion end of the pithead house, rolled off and fell down the shaft and was killed instantly | Newspaper Report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1901 | August | 24 | Cadder (coal and ironstone) | Lanark | Carron Co | Richard Gibb | Labourer | 45 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | A train of waggons going down an incline was not spragged and ran into the lye where Gibb was working and killed him | |
| 1901 | August | 26 | Donibristle | Fife | Donibristle Coal Co | William Forsyth | Wheeler | 20 | Sundries | Inflow of moss | See report |
| Jas Bowman McDonald | Incline bottomer | 32 | |||||||||
| William Hynd | Pit bottomer | 52 | |||||||||
| Andrew Paterson | Ostler | 40 | |||||||||
| David Campbell | Fireman | 54 | |||||||||
| Thomas Rattray | Oversman | 54 | |||||||||
| Geo. Herd Hutchison | Miner | 50 | |||||||||
| Alexander Smith | oncostman | 48 | |||||||||
| 1901 | August | 29 | Oakbank (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | James Haddow | Miner | 38 | Underground by explosives | Deceased bored a hole for a shot to a depth of 3 feet 7 inches, and inserted the contents of two 1 lb cartridges of gunpowder into it; in beginning to stem, the gunpowder exploded and he was badly burnt and succumbed subsequently to his injuries. Deceased's cap with lamp attached was found near the hole, and the probabilities are the explosion was caused by a spark from the lamp. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1901 | September | 1 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Morris | Roadsman | 41 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | Deceased and others had moved upwards the drum of a carriage incline, and were testing the running of the carriage on which the deceased were. The rope came off the drum and fell on the axle, and the consequent jerk drew the rope out of the socket or hose next the back balance. The man at the brake was not able to hold the carriage, which dashed to the bottom. The props which are usually set to prevent the rope getting off the drum had not been put up. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| George Peacock | Roadsman | 48 | |||||||||
| 1901 | September | 3 | Garturk, Britton Pit | Lanark | Wm. Dixon Ltd | Wm. McLeod | pitheadman | 44 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | When pinching forward a full waggon from the scree other two waggons followed and he was crushed between the buffers | |
| 1901 | September | 4 | Auchinraith No 2 pit | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Stephen Robson | Miner | 36 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | September | 9 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Hodge | Fireman | 40 | Falls of roof | While passing from one longwall face to another by the rib side a stone from the roof fell on him. He had been warned not to use the road as the roof was not good. | |
| 1901 | September | 11 | Tarbrax (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Caledonian Mineral Oil Co Ltd | David Scott Telford | Bogie boy | 14 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While in charge of a bogie and rake of loaded hutches on a surface endless rope tramway, he fell from the bogie and was run over. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1901 | September | 16 | Woodend | Linlithgow | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | James Forrest | Pony driver | 20 | Falls of side | Deceased was proceeding inbye with a rake of tubs when a stone fell from the side in the lye, killing him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | September | 20 | Cousland (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | James O'Donnell | Miner | 35 | Underground by explosives | Deceased had prepared a "yankee" or holing shot at the face of a level, and while lighting the fuse or immediately after lighting it he appears to have lost his light, become confused, and must have been near the shot when it exploded, as he was blown 64 feet from the face, where he was found unconscious and much injured. | |
| 1901 | September | 25 | Greenfield | Lanark | Archd. Russell | James Murdoch | Miner | 33 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | September | 26 | Champfleurie (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Linlithgow Oil Co Ltd | John Morran | Miner | 41 | Falls of roof | Deceased and two other workmen were engaged repairing a level road when the roof suddenly fell. | |
| 1901 | September | 27 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Andrew Guthrie | Miner | 55 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at face of working place in Main Coal stooping section. Due to a want of props which were about 7 feet back from the face. | |
| 1901 | October | 3 | Dalquhandy | Lanark | Waddell & Son | Charles Freeley | Trimmer | 23 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While illegally spragging a waggon with a 6ft prop the sprag knocked him in front of the wheels | |
| 1901 | October | 7 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | William Rankine | Miner | 18 | Falls of side | Deceased was employed in a dook, and in passing an empty tub to give the chain-runner assistance with the dook rope, a stone fell off the side and crushed him against the tub. | |
| 1901 | October | 7 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Nairn | Wagon trimmer | 50 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was bringing an empty wagon forward to a screen to be filled with Parrot coal, and, to regulate its speed, he went to the brake on the side where there was a retaining wall, and appeared to have been crushed against the wall, and afterwards thrown down among the wheels. The space between the retaining wall and wagon side was 11 inches. | |
| 1901 | October | 14 | Hill of Beath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Wallace | Wagon shunter | 28 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was sitting on the buffer of the leading wagon of a train of empty wagons, being pushed by the locomotive engine to the top end of the pit, and, when he jumped off in centre of road, his foot slipped on a sleeper, and he fell across the rail whereby part of the train passed over him. Death ensued two hours afterwards, The morning was frosty and there was a thin coating of ice on the sleeper. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | October | 14 | Oakbank (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | John Lowe | Miner | 51 | Falls of side | Deceased was taking out a stoop in a seam 6 ft. 6 ins. in thickness, and had reduced it to a pillar about 12 ft. square. The left corner had been holed and left ungibbed for three days, when, as the shale did not break, deceased set a gib under it, extended the holing, and bored and charged a shot hole. While drawing the gib preparatory to lighting the shot, the shale suddenly fell from an unseen lype and killed him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | October | 16 | Blair No 2 Pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Kilpatrick | Shanksman | 41 | Shaft accidents – things falling from part way down | When engaged repairing the shaft, a stone fell upon the cage, smashing it and precipitating it and the men to the bottom | |
| George Kilpatrick | Shanksman | 37 | |||||||||
| 1901 | October | 21 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Keddie | 25 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were engaged brushing a heading road, and while withdrawing the props he sat under the brushing, when it fell and crushed him. He died from his injuries on March 11, 1902. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | October | 25 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Dow | Pithead worker | 30 | On surface – miscellaneous | Deceased had finished his work, and appears to have gone on to the hoist cage, probably with a view to being lowered to the ground level, and fell off. | |
| 1901 | November | 1 | Tarbrax (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Caledonian Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Charles Rouble | Miner | 32 | Underground by explosives | Deceased, who was a Pole, worked with a fellow countryman in an upset near the face of a level. They had charged seven "yankee" or holing shots, situated at intervals across the working face. Each man lighted three shots and retired to the level; and on hearing the six explosions, deceased returned to the face of the upset to light the seventh shot. He appeared to have been close to it when it exploded, causing injuries which resulted fatally on the same night. The shot, which was said to have caused the accident, was close to one side of the upset, and 2 feet from the adjacent shot. They were charged with gunpowder, and fired by means of gutta-percha covered fuse. | |
| 1901 | November | 2 | Beoch | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | James Wallace | Chair runner | 63 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | Crushed in some unexplained manner between the “race” of hutches and the side of haulage road | |
| 1901 | November | 10 | Houldsworth | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | Wm Clark | Winding engineman | 31 | Surface – miscellaneous | When assisting to put rails on the cage at the pit mouth his foot slipped down between the cage and the side of the shaft. He fell on the hutch guard and was fatally injured | |
| 1901 | November | 14 | Craighead No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Peter Thomson | Miner | 26 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | November | 16 | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Rbt. Cuthbertson | pitheadman | 38 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While riding on footstep of Caledonian Railway Cos locomotive on branch railway he fell off and was run over | |
| 1901 | November | 17 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | Benjamin Ireland | Not listed | Death not
listed in Inspectors report Not work accident |
Newspaper report - Auchterderran pages | |||
| 1901 | November | 22 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | John Leslie | Locomotive guard | 17 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While using a length of wire rope to move wagons on one line by means of the locomotive engine on a parallel line of rails, he was caught between the rope and the leading wagon and severely crushed. | |
| 1901 | November | 25 | Balgonie | Fife | C B Balfour | James Berwick Smart | Roadsman | 46 | Falls of side | Deceased and three other workmen were repairing a main horse road, on the usual idle day, when a large fall took place off the side and crashed through the timbers completely burying him. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Craigend | Lanark | County Coal Co | James Lappin | Boiler fireman | 27 | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | He either jumped or in some unexplained manner fell down the shaft. No one else was at the mine at the time. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Bentrigg | Lanark | Larkhall Collieries Ltd | Thomas Kellighan | Bottomer | 28 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He appears to have been crossing the cage seat when the cage came down upon him. He was alone at the time. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Whistleberry No 2 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Patrick Larkin | Brusher | 40 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1901 | November | 30 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Moffatt | Miner | 25 | Falls of roof | Deceased was holing his coal when the roof suddenly fell on him. He succumbed to his injuries 16 hours afterwards | |
| 1901 | December | 4 | Dunnikier | Fife | Walter Herd & Sons Ltd | William Reynolds | Miner | 34 | Haulage – on machinery | Deceased and his neighbour were hauling a loaded tub up a dook by means of an ordinary windlass, and when the tub was a short distance up his neighbour thought there was something the matter with the machinery and he let go his handle causing the tub to go back and deceased who was at the opposite handle attempted to escape, but failed to do so, and was struck by the handle as it revolved in the reverse direction. | Newspaper Report - Fife pages |
| 1901 | December | 4 | Springhill No 4 Pit | Ayr | Archd. Finnie & Son | Angus Kerr | Pony driver | 60 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | He fell of the front of his “race” of full hutches and was crushed against the side of the road. It was his first day as pony driver. | |
| 1901 | December | 9 | Cornsilloch, No 3 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Robert Livingstone | Miner | 30 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | On entering their working place 2 ¼ hours after it had been inspected by the fireman, their naked lights ignited firedamp. Another miner was injured From Main body of report: The fifth fatal explosion resulted in the death of two miners and the injury of another. It occurred in Cornsilloch Colliery, which is one of the mines recently transferred to this district. The three miners worked together in a section of Ell Coal, where the stoops are being extracted. Owing to the want of hutches they did not enter their working place until about 2 1/4 hours after the fireman's inspection. When one of them was going up to the working face his naked light ignited gas which the fireman declared had accumulated after he had visited the place when making the usual inspection. Since the explosion the owner has agreed to work out the pillars with safety lamps. |
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| Archd. Campbell | Miner | 27 | |||||||||
| 1901 | December | 10 | Cornsilloch, No 2 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Robert McLean | Repairer | 45 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on horse road while redding a previous fall | |
| 1901 | December | 11 | Loanhead | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Walter Salton | Drawer | 17 | Falls of roof | The roof in a longwall place in a highly inclined seam fell, and swept out some wooden pillars on the rise side of the level and buried deceased, who was assisting the miner in the place to move a hutch. | |
| 1901 | December | 12 | Aucincruive Mossblown No 1 pit | Ayr | Auchincruive Coal Co | Wm Diamond | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. His working place was not propped as required by the new Special Rules | |
| 1901 | December | 12 | Dechmont No 2 Pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Thomas Tait | Miner | 36 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While taking a hutch down a “cuddie” brae the chain broke and the “cuddie” ran down upon him | |
| 1901 | December | 16 | Swinhill No 6 pit | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Peter McGowan | Miner | 17 | Shaft accidents – overwinding | When about to descend the shaft from the pithead the engineman started the engine the wrong way and overwound the cage, out of which they fell down the shaft. Another man in the cage escaped | Newspaper report - Dalserf pages |
| John Donnelly | Miner | 30 | |||||||||
| 1901 | December | 17 | Bothwell Castle No 1 pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Archd. McDermit | Drawer | 23 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on drawing road near working face | |
| 1901 | December | 21 | Holytown No 5 Pit | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | David Thomson | Miner | 20 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | While illegally drawing in front of a full hutch down an inclined road it ran him over. | |
| 1901 | December | 23 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co, Ltd | Alexander Ogilvie | Miner | 21 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | Newspaper report - Bothwellhaugh pages |
| 1901 | December | 24 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Innes | Miner | 29 | Other haulage accidents | Deceased was riding on the top of a loaded rake, when he was crushed against the roof. He died from his injuries on 25th February, 1902. | |
| 1901 | December | 25 | Gilbertfield | Lanark | Cambuslang Coal Co Ltd | John McLean | Labourer | 40 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | When leaning upon a gangway railing it gave way, and he fell upon the rails, a distance of 20 feet, and was run over by a waggon | |
| 1901 | December | 27 | Lightshaw No 4 pit | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Wm. Campbell | Miner | 33 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | December | 30 | Crofthead | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | Walter Bolton | Brusher | 29 | Falls of roof | After firing a shot in brushing the deceased began to take off the loose material, when a stone fell from roof, killing him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | December | 31 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Joseph Caton | Labourer | -- | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While leaving his work he was run over by a train of wagons pushed by a locomotive engine. | |