| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Additional Information | ||
| 1909 | January | 8 | Brownrigg No 2 | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Chas. Brady | 54 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of coal and "falling" at working face of stooping. | |
| 1909 | January | 11 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Beall | 43 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While turning out his loaded tub on a cut chain incline (dip 1 in 3), another miner turned his tub out at a bench 32 feet higher up and let it over the landing. He had omitted to put in the wooden block and it came down on deceased. | |
| 1909 | January | 13 | Govan No 5 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | John Murray | 67 | Waggon trimmer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Found injured in four-foot way near screens. | |
| 1909 | January | 19 | Bannockburn No 2 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Gilbert Templeton | 26 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on old road while repairing it. | |
| 1909 | January | 19 | Common No 15 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Joseph Richmond | 16 | Pony driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Run over in some unknown manner by race of hutches which he was taking along road. | |
| 1909 | January | 21 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Brown | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was cleaning up rubbish along his longwall face preparatory to digging more coal. He suspected his roof, sounded it and found it bad and was on his way out from under it when it collapsed injuring him so severely that he died 1 ½ hours later. | |
| 1909 | January | 25 | Bank No 1 | Ayr | New Bank Coal Co | Win. Hunter | 64 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | When adjusting empty hutch on low deck of cage, the cage was lowered and it caught him. | |
| 1909 | January | 27 | Michael | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | David Linton | 58 | Assistant Oversman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased made a seat on the fourth tub of a loaded rake to have a ride up a dook haulage road, and while the tub passed under a low part of the roadway he was crushed against the roof. | |
| 1909 | January | 28 | Enterkine No 9 | Ayr | George Taylor & Co | Jas. Morgan | 17 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at road-head. | |
| 1909 | January | 29 | Alloa | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Robert Mitchell | 53 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were taking off coal at the face, when the roof suddenly fell away from lype, throwing out two props, and injuring both men. The former died 5 months later. | |
| 1909 | January | 29 | Lanemark Afton Pit | Ayr | Lanemark Coal Co Ltd | Jas, Jackson | 40 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of coal and roof at working face while holing. | |
| 1909 | January | 31 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Fowler | 35 | Pitwright | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | Deceased stepped on to one of the buntons at the mouth of the pit shaft, to steady a pump rod, which had been slung under the cage to be taken down. On coming out again his foot slipped and he fell 180 fathoms to the shaft bottom. | |
| 1909 | February | 3 | Calderbank No 2 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Thos. Bright | 33 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (5.45am) Ignited firedamp when making an inspection of workings. From the Main Body of report: The first fatal explosion occurred on February 2nd in Calderbank, No. 2 pit, Lanarkshire, worked by the United Collieries, Limited, and resulted in the death of a fireman. This man was engaged making, or had finished making, an inspection of the Kiltongue coal workings prior· to the entry of the workers. He admitted having lit his open lamp and kindled the fire·damp in a cavity in the roof It would seem, therefore, that he was either carrying an open light when making his inspection, or that he failed to properly examine the workings with the safety lamp with which he was provided. |
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| 1909 | February | 5 | Castlecary (Fireclay) | Stirling | John G Stein & Co Ltd | William MoKee | 29 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was laying rails in his road, when a piece of fireclay fell from the side upon him. | |
| 1909 | February | 8 | Greenrigg | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | John McIntyre | 16 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased was filling a tub with coal, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | February | 11 | Dechmont No 3 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Jas. Sim | 42 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at face of stone mine on knocking out props set for drilling machines. | |
| 1909 | February | 11 | Cadder No 17 | Lanark | Carron Co | Joseph Mills | 36 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of ironstone while holing, through ironstone being insufficiently spragged. | |
| 1909 | February | 12 | Bredisholm No 1 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | John Johnstone | 29 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1909 | February | 12 | Bannockburn No 3 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Walter Turnbull | 26 | Engineer | On surface – by machinery | While oiling a bearing of fan engine he got caught by the flywheel. | |
| 1909 | February | 12 | Herdshill | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | William Black | 61 | Labourer | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | Deceased came from the prop wood stack with a tub loaded with props to send it down the shaft, and evidently he stumbled as he opened the door fencing the shaft, and fell down meeting the ascending cage on his way down. | |
| 1909 | February | 15 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | John Grant | 52 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased and two other miners had just got on to the cage to be raised to surface, when a stone fell upon the cage and they were crushed. The stone fell away from the front of an old mid working 123 fathoms up. From Main body of report: An accident occurred at the bottom of a shaft, causing the death of two men. The cage had arrived at the bottom, and men were about to enter it when a stone fell on the cage top crashing through it. The stone had fallen away from an old opening off the shaft 123 fathoms up. The shaft had been carefully examined during the morning and no defect observed. |
Newspaper report |
| Richard Fitzpatrick | 28 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | February | 18 | Longrigg | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Robert McGregor | 28 | Wagon-Shifter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased had run some loaded waggons forward from a hopper and was bringing another forward behind them. He had a "trig" laid to stop it and forgetting apparently the loaded waggons, he was bending down watching the last one coming on to the " trig" when his head was caught and he was killed instantaneously. | |
| 1909 | February | 18 | Redding | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Daniel Rankin | 44 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was at work at the coal face, when a huge stone fell from the roof carrying the props with it and killed him instantly, | |
| 1909 | February | 24 | Hopetoun No 44 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | Robert Smellie | 56 | Oversman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While an empty rake was descending an Ingoing eye, one tub uncoupled, and ran down against three others resting on a prop on centre of roadway causing these tubs to run away ; deceased was doing some repairs to a pump on the roadside, and for safety he crossed over to a branch road, and just then the runaway tub left the rails and crushed him against a wooden pillar. | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
| 1909 | February | 26 | Braidhurst | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Thomas McCallum | 37 | Repairer | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were clearing away a fall on a roadway, filling the debris into tubs and stowing it in an old roadway: while moving a loaded tub, it caught on one side, and when clearing the obstruction a fresh fall took place, and he was buried beneath it. The roof was very bad, and the fall carried away the timbers. | |
| 1909 | February | 27 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Robert Sharp | 42 | Labourer | On surface – miscellaneous | Deceased was inside a condenser cleaning it out, when he was scalded by steam and water. | |
| 1909 | March | 1 | Batonrigg | Lanark | Baton Collieries Ltd | Thomas Dickson | 39 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Deceased was driving an electric coal cutter along a machine wall which had a very bad roof. He and the fireman had superintended the timbering and were both satisfied with it. While the machine was cutting the whole roof collapsed breaking the timber and a large stone fell on deceased and dislocated his neck. The colliery had been working irregularly and the "weight" which should have been back in the waste had got forward on the face of the coal. | |
| 1909 | March | 1 | Broxburn (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Robert Anderson | 36 | Oversman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The mine starts from the surface, and the mineral is hauled by an engine and dook rope. A loaded rake had been hauled a short distance up a steep gradient, when a chain bar of one of the tubs broke and 8 tubs came back, and deceased was fatally crushed. | |
| 1909 | March | 2 | Castlehill | Lanark | Chapel Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Lee | 51 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was putting back a charge of gelignite with a wooden stemmer when it exploded. The explosive was hard and therefore unsafe. | |
| 1909 | March | 3 | Westfield (Limestone) | Edinburgh | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert Linster | 50 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased and another miner were inserting the final charge of Blasting Gelatine into a long hole in limestone which had been "cracked " a few times before. The charge exploded and injured both men, deceased succumbing five days later. | |
| 1909 | March | 11 | Howmuir | Lanark | Auchinlea Coal Co Ltd | Peter McEwan | 27 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Deceased was driver of an electric coal cutter and had charge of the other machine-men. The accident occurred at a road head which was newly brushed and which deceased had examined while the machine was standing. It had just been set agoing again, when a large stone fell and killed him. Flat crowns were not in use in the machine wall, but if two had been applied here, the accident would not have occurred. | Newspaper report |
| 1909 | March | 11 | Roslin | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Henry Ramage | 33 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | Deceased was standing on a temporary scaffold working off coal in a seam with a gradient of 65 degrees, when one of the supports gave way and he fell across a prop 7 feet below and was killed. | |
| 1909 | March | 12 | Springhill No 4 | Ayr | Arch. Finnie & Son | Campbell Banks | 23 | Haulageman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When jumping off a race of hutches on which he was riding without permission, he fell and was run over. | |
| 1909 | March | 12 | Motherwell | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | David Fraser | 53 | Repairer | Falls of roof | Deceased was doing repairs, when a small stone fell upon his arm inflicting a slight accident. He died from blood poisoning 12 days later. | |
| 1909 | March | 13 | Swinhill No 2 | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Wm. Maclean | 29 | Fireman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on road while repairing it. | Newspaper report - Dalserf pages |
| Wm. Plenderleith | 16 | Chainrunner | |||||||||
| 1909 | March | 14 | Polmaise No 3 | Stirlingshire | William Mooney | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Death certificate | ||||
| 1909 | March | 19 | Little Raith | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Hedley | 19 | Assistant Bottomer | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased was an Assistant Bottomer at a mid working, and when the cage was about to reach the landing he opened the gate fencing the shaft, and fell into it. | |
| 1909 | March | 19 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Thomson | 60 | Wagon-Shifter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While following his ordinary duties he fell from the gangway, alongside the waggons, to the railway, a .distance of 7 feet and was killed. | |
| 1909 | March | 22 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Lees | 56 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was at work at the face when a piece of face coal fell and rolled down crushing him against a prop. | |
| 1909 | March | 22 | Ferniegare No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Jas. Hutchins | 36 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while setting a prop. | |
| 1909 | March | 22 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | William Christie | 20 | hanger-on | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | March | 22 | Minto Colliery | William Lamb | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Newspaper report - Auchterderran pages | |||||
| 1909 | March | 24 | Alexander Hunter | Death not listed in Inspectors report | Died of pneumonia Newspaper report- Bothwell pages | ||||||
| 1909 | March | 29 | Rosehall No 3 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Jas. Cameron | 30 | Drawer | Falls of side | When holing, a small piece of coal fell and cut his finger. Blood poisoning resulted, and he died on the 8th of May. | |
| 1909 | March | 31 | Hamilton Palace No 1 | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | Arthur Dickson | 32 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When travelling out a haulage road, he was caught by a runaway hutch. | Newspaper report |
| 1909 | March | 31 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Aitkin | 28 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was working in a thin seam and after being out to his road for a prop, was on his hands and knees under his brushing again, when a piece of blaes, 4 ½ inches thick, gave way between props and struck him behind the head and bore him to the ground. His forehead struck a piece of coal, which caused fracture of his skull. Serious symptoms set in, and he died four days later. | |
| 1909 | March | 31 | Motherwell | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | James Lang | 27 | machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | To follow | |
| 1909 | April | 8 | Camp (Limestone) | Edinburgh | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Charles Ford | 40 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased was in the act of adjusting a loaded tub on the cage, when it was raised and he was crushed at the door heads. The engineman apparently lifted the cage without getting the signal. | |
| 1909 | April | 13 | Knowehead | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Alex. Lumley | 39 | Pitheadman | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | He pushed empty hutch into the open shaft at low scaffold while cage was at pithead, and fell after it. | |
| 1909 | April | 14 | Auchengeich | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Robert Park | 50 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at coal face in a machine wall when about to set up props. | |
| 1909 | April | 14 | Fauldhead | Dumfries | Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd | Marion Halliday | 14 | Stonepicker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | When crossing rails in front of two moving waggons at the scree she got run over. | |
| 1909 | April | 22 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | John Anderson | 55 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was cleaning up the dross on the roadway, behind some loaded waggons, when some empty waggons were let down and ran too fast colliding with stationary waggon under the screen, causing it to move forward, deceased tried to escape but was crushed between moving waggon and stationary waggon beside him. | |
| 1909 | April | 22 | Dumbreck No 2 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alex. Miller | 44 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (3.15pm) In cleaning out an accumulation of gas, the air current carried the gas to his naked light, and caused explosion. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | April | 26 | Benarty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Gulland | 48 | Hanger on | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | Shortly after the rake had started to run on an inclined roadway a ''false" link in the chain gave out and tubs ran back, crushing deceased who failed to get clear. | |
| 1909 | April | 27 | Polmaise No 4 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | John McVicar | 38 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (7.45pm) While examining an outburst of gas, it apparently ignited at his safety lamp. Three other men were injured. From the Main Body of report: The second on the list is that of an explosion of fire-damp in No. 4, Polmaise Colliery, Stirling, where safety lamps alone were used. The fireman was examining the workings, and on finding gas, his lamp ignited it, and caused an explosion, whereby he lost his own life, and three other workers were injured. It was thought that the fireman's lamp must have been detective. |
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| 1909 | April | 27 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | George Maxwell | 28 | miner | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | April | 29 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Henry Geddes | 52 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was stripping coals in a machine wall, and had knocked out a prop, which was in his way. He had just got another, and intended setting it up, when a large stone fell and injured him so severely, that he died ten hours later. | |
| 1909 | May | 1 | Pennyvenie No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Peter McMurray | 67 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place near side of an old road. | |
| John McMurray | 19 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | May | 3 | Wilsontown | Lanark | William Dixon Ltd | George Burt | 43 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was on a bogie hauling a loaded rake to the shaft on an endless rope haulage roadway, and apparently it left the rails and threw him off, the rope continued still to move, and he was dragged for some distance, and was found dead. | |
| 1909 | May | 6 | Bannockburn No 1 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Wm. Dazley | 44 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While travelling down dook ling chain got disconnected from a hutch, which ran back on him. Men were prohibited from travelling on the dook there being a separate travelling road. | |
| 1909 | May | 7 | Broxburn (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Robert Kennedy | 27 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The drawer at the top of a "Cuddie brae " allowed his loaded tub to run too far, and and as the blocks were out it ran on to the brae, deceased was proceeding down at the time, and on hearing the shout to stand clear he stepped right in front and he was carried to the bottom, and fatally crushed. | |
| 1909 | May | 10 | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Co | David Love | 56 | Surface-Foreman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was moving some waggons and as they were getting too much way, he attempted to stop them by inserting a coupling pole and as soon as it entered the wheel spokes it came round suddenly and the projecting part struck him and he was thrown under the wheels. | |
| 1909 | May | 10 | Parkhead | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Thomas Smith | 44 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was at work, when a large stone fell away from between lypes, carrying the props with it, and falling on him. | |
| 1909 | May | 11 | Douglas Park No 1 | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | David Shannon | 16 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of side in road-head while occupied filling a hutch. | |
| 1909 | May | 13 | Bonnyside (Fireclay) | Stirling | Dougall & Sons Ltd | Thomas Hillstone | 50 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was boring a hole for a shot, when the roof coal suddenly fell upon him. The vibration caused by working the boring machine acting on the roof through the "machine tree" may have loosened the coal. | |
| 1909 | May | 13 | Blackhill No 9 | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Robert Hay | 40 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face when taking down head coal. | |
| 1909 | May | 20 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Gavin, Junr | 33 | Manager | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was driving a locomotive, when the motion suddenly reversed, and as it was going toward a dead end buffer with which it would collide, he jumped to the ground and fractured his left leg: he succumbed to his injury about a month later. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | May | 21 | Rosehall No12 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Peter McGhee | 36 | Brusher | Falls of side | Fall of side of road while repairing it. | |
| 1909 | May | 26 | Wallyford | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | William McNeill | 45 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and two other brushers were about to set timber to a part of the roof just brushed, when a stone fell upon him and he was killed. | |
| 1909 | May | 28 | Quarter No 1 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alexander Baxter | 67 | Overman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in lye while clearing away a previous fall. | |
| 1909 | May | 31 | Roman Camp (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Samuel Turtle | 37 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | Some mineral fell from the face and slid down a very steep gradient, throwing out several props in its descent, one of which struck deceased and threw him against an upright prop, causing injuries to which he succumbed two days later. | |
| 1909 | June | 4 | Greenfield No 2 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Audley McKeown | 60 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place, where supports were only 3 ft. 3 ins. from coal face. | Newspaper Report - Hamilton pages |
| 1909 | June | 4 | Chapel | Lanark | Chapel Coal Co Ltd | David Robertson, Junr | 23 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Deceased set some props to the roof after the coal cutter had passed, and shortly after the part fell upon him carrying the props with it. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1909 | June | 7 | Fergushill No 28 | Ayr | A Finnie & Son | John McDonald | 37 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | When splitting a piece of coal it rolled over against his knee, and slightly injured it. Blood poisoning ensued, and he died on 9th June. | |
| 1909 | June | 8 | Banknock Cannerton Pit | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Edward Kerr | 40 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in lye at pit bottom while repairing it. | |
| 1909 | June | 8 | Chapel | Lanark | Chapel Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Gilchrist | 49 | Contractor Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was putting up the last prop on the line of "breakers " preparatory to fire a shot in the brushing, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1909 | June | 8 | Auchencruive No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alex. McLellan | 29 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place or near it. | |
| 1909 | June | 9 | Bothwell Park No 2 | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James McArd | 26 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was said to be walking in front of full hutch after putting snibble in front wheel, when snibble came out, and hutch ran away and went over him. | Newspaper report- Bothwell pages [gives name as McHarg] |
| 1909 | June | 10 | Callendar | Stirling | Callendar Coal Co Ltd | James McPherson | 23 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased was "backening" coal to the road, when a stone fell upon him; death resulted three weeks after. | |
| 1909 | June | 11 | Cornsilloch | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Allan Scott | 35 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He is said to have strained and ruptured himself while pushing a hutch, and he died on 13th October. | |
| 1909 | June | 14 | Cadzow No 2 | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | George Brown | 46 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of coal after withdrawing a sprag and preparing to wedge it down. | |
| 1909 | June | 16 | Polton | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | David Cairns | 36 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was building the debris made from the brushing, when a stone fell upon him injuring his head. He walked home, and died from a fractured skull six day afterwards. | |
| 1909 | June | 19 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James T. Cole | 19 | Repairer | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were engaged clearing a fall and securing the roof, when a stone fell upon him causing instant death. | |
| 1909 | June | 23 | Lochside | Fife | Lochside Coal & Fire clay Co | George Burt | 39 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged taking off blaes from an old working for brickmaking purposes, when the roof suddenly fell and killed him instantly. | |
| 1909 | June | 23 | Fordell | Fife | Countess of Buckinghamshire | Robert Wilson | 18 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged working off a "cut" of coal, when the roof suddenly fell away carrying the coal with it, and completely burying him. | |
| 1909 | June | 23 | Barony No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Boyd | 38 | Sinker | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | He fell off a scaffold in the shaft while signalling. | |
| 1909 | June | 24 | Knowehead | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Robert Leslie | 24 | Despatch clerk | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | When passing between buffers of stationary waggons locomotive moved waggons, and he was caught. | |
| 1909 | June | 25 | Auchinreoch No 2 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Samuel Jackson | 50 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | In passing stationary race of hutches on way to bottom, the race started and caught him. | |
| 1909 | June | 26 | Garthamlock No 6 | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | Wm. Milligan | 17 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Apparently while illegally drawing in front of a hutch he got run over by it. | |
| 1909 | June | 27 | Ferniegare No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | George Hunter | 22 | Machineman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (1.45pm) Explosion occurred when electric trailing cable was being lengthened by means of a plug connection. From Main body of report: To follow | |
| John Adams | 26 | Machineman | |||||||||
| Frank Tate | 30 | Gummer | |||||||||
| 1909 | June | 29 | Annandale No 11 | Ayr | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries | James Donelly | 32 | Engineman | On surface – by machinery | While working close to an unfenced revolving shaft he got caught by it. | |
| 1909 | June | 29 | Dumbreck No 2 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thos. Hughes | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place when either holing or taking down coal. | |
| 1909 | July | 2 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Borthwick Heap | 14 | Haulage-boy | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was detaching a chain from two loaded tubs which were running forward by gravity at a haulage landing. He had forgotten that other two tubs were already standing and his head was caught between the tubs. He was instantly killed. | |
| 1909 | July | 5 | Balgonie | Fife | C B Balfour | William McGraw | 19 | Drawer | Falls of roof | While pushing away a loaded tub from a face, deceased put one foot against a prop supporting the roof, which came out allowing part to fall upon him. | |
| 1909 | July | 7 | Rosehall No 7 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Wm. Walker | 30 | Labourer | On surface – miscellaneous | In pushing a full hutch away from pit mouth, his foot slipped, and he got caught by the descending cage. | |
| 1909 | July | 18 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Harry Williamson | 36 | Oncost | Falls of roof | At a part of an incline dipping 60 degrees, the roof was showing signs of collapsing near the vicinity of a "trouble," and deceased with another workman, named Andrew King, were engaged repairing and making the part secure : they had finished their shift, and were proceeding up the incline, when the roof collapsed, and all three were buried. The latter lay in a recess uninjured, and owing to the dangerous nature of the operations to effects his rescue, twenty-seven hours elapsed before he was released. | |
| David Beattie | 52 | Oncost | |||||||||
| 1909 | July | 19 | Gavieside (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | George Beattie | 44 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was employed to keep the Main Ingoing eye in order, and to see that nothing stopped the rakes of full or empty tubs. A rake had passed up and was just at the top when a coupling hook straightened out and four tubs came back 66 fathoms at 1 in 2 inclination and struck him. He was so severely injured that he died 10 hours later. | |
| 1909 | July | 22 | Eglinton No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thos. Watters | 17 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face when putting up prop. | |
| 1909 | July | 23 | Bedlay | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thos. McNaught | 14 | Labourer | On surface – by machinery | Caught by a runaway full hutch and pushed into creeper which was unfenced, and it caught him. | |
| 1909 | July | 26 | Over Dalserf No 2 | Lanark | Brand & Co | John Lockhart | 17 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | On returning to a shot of gelignite which was thought to have missed fire it went off on him. He only waited a few minutes. | |
| 1909 | July | 28 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thomas Stenhouse | 62 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased and two others were engaged making room to build side walls near the shaft bottom, when a stone fell upon him. At the time preparations were being made to support the part which fell. | |
| 1909 | July | 30 | Benarty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Whitehead | 15 | Pony-driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was bringing a pony rake out of a level and either triped while walking in front of the tubs, or struck his head on a crown and fell off, while riding on the tubs. He was found dead with his neck jammed between his rake and a prop at the side. | |
| 1909 | August | 3 | Lassodie | Fife | Thos Spowart & Co Ltd | Thomas Anderson | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased knew his roof required more props and had just taken measurement to get one to set up, when a large stone fell and killed him instantly. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | August | 3 | Queenslie No 2 | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | Jas. Paterson | 59 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (1.30pm) Ignition of gas at a hitch in working place. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | August | 3 | Little Mill No 2 | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Hugh Sloan (junr.) | 16 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place. The prescribed distance between props was exceeded. (Another man injured.) | |
| 1909 | August | 4 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Daniel McMurray | 27 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was holing when coal fell upon him; he died five weeks later from his injuries. There were no sprags up to the face. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | August | 5 | Glenboig (Fire clay) | Lanark | Glenboig Union Fireclay Co Ltd | Patrick Canavan | 17 | Drawer | Falls of roof | See Report From Main body of report: One accident, causing the loss of four lives, took place, in Glenboig Fireclay Mine. Stooping operations had been carried on for some time in the Fireclay Seam to the rise, and while engaged in extracting the first “lift” of another stoop the roof suddenly fell and the four men were buried under the fall. The area being stooped had been stopped for about 20 years, and in the interval the roof, which was a strong post of sandstone, had fracture along the old roadway, and the firsts “breaking" of clay had been taken off the face, an unseen fracture was relieved ; the support to the roof was insufficient to keep it up, and stone broke away by the fractures through its own weight. Probably what contributed largely to the fall was that the area where stoop had just been extracted did not close sufficiently in the waste, after the props were withdrawn, to take the weight off the stoop where men were at work. In my opinion a row of wooden pillars should have been placed on the old roadway parallel to the working face, and while this might not have prevented the roof from falling it would have enabled the men to get time to escape. It was a mistake to have so many men at work on a face of about 20 feet. | |
| William Taylor | 23 | Miner | |||||||||
| William Allan | 34 | Miner | |||||||||
| Joseph Anderson | 35 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | August | 5 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | George McLachlan | 27 | drawer | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | August | 15 | Auchengeich No 2 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. McMahon | 42 | Roadsman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Shock of electricity from fault in cable which he had coiled up in his hand. Was not authorised to handle cable. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | August | 17 | Bedlay No 1 | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert Wilson | 18 | Bencher | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Race of eight full hutches was being sent down incline. Not being coupled, six ran down into empty race at bottom, and caused two remaining full hutches to run back on Wilson. | |
| 1909 | August | 17 | Giffnock Sandstone Mine | Renfrew | ---- | William Duncan | 25 | Engineman | Metalliferous mines | Caught by shafting or pulley of crushing machinery when inside fence. | |
| 1909 | August | 26 | Bailliesmuir | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Patrick Rafferty | 41 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased and his neighbour lighted three shots, and retired to a safe place. When explosions ceased the former declared that all the shots had gone off and both proceeded back towards the face, and when within 15 yards of the shot holes another explosion occurred, and deceased was killed by the flying debris. One of the shots had "hung fire," as some considerable time elapsed after the first explosions until the fatal one. | |
| 1909 | August | 28 | Wallyford | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | George Bourhill | 17 | Winch engineman | On surface – by machinery | Deceased worked a crab winch used to haul debris to the redd bing. It appears that the engine ''centred," and he got up on top to move the drum and inadvertently put his foot on throttle valve lever allowing full steam to cylinders, and causing the drum to revolve whereby he was thrown over it to the other side and fatally injured. | |
| 1909 | September | 1 | Blackhill No 9 | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Jas. Wark | 16 | Drawer | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (3.30pm) His father on entering his working place ignited gas with naked light. Day fireman had found gas, but failed to conduct the air current to the spot. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | September | 1 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | George Grant | 53 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged brushing a roadway, when a stone fell and killed him instantly. | |
| 1909 | September | 2 | Parkneuk | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Coal Co Ltd | George Campbell | 22 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased, who had not much experience, had gone into to the working place of the miner who employed him, and had just began to fill a tub when some overhanging coal fell on him and killed him instantaneously. He had been told by the fireman that the coal was not safe. | |
| 1909 | September | 2 | Canderigg Broomfield No 4 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. Plenderleith | 58 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of overhanging stone, under which machine-cut coal had been taken down. | |
| 1909 | September | 3 | Carfin No 6 | Lanark | William Dixon Ltd | Alex. Boyd | 17 | Motor haulageman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He appears to have been reaching beneath the fencing of haulage gearing to wipe something, when he was caught by pinion wheels. | |
| 1909 | September | 3 | Cowdenbeath No 10 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Michael McFarlane | 42 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged with the overman and some others clearing a fall on a main incline. The overman had sounded the roof several times and was satisfied with it. When they were about finished a large stone fell from a height of about 10 feet, and injured McFarlane so badly that he died the same day. | |
| 1909 | September | 5 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | Robert Borland | 20 | Brusher | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | See Report From Main body of report: The fatal explosion occurred at Arniston Colliery, in the Splint Coal Seam. Deceased was a brusher, and he, with three others, was engaged in brushing a level roadway ; when the preliminaries were finished, he went up the heading close by for a “machine tree” with which to set up in order to bore a shot hole, and when at the face he ignited some gas which had accumulated at the face of the brushing, causing an explosion, whereby he was burned, and succumbed to his injuries two days later. The quantity of gas was small as no damage whatever was done. On the one side of the heading was a “fault” which gave off gas, and it was found in the vicinity about two months before the accident. An examination of the place was made during the shift previous, and no gas was found. A careful examination three days after the accident failed to find any trace of gas. There was a good air-current passing, and had proper care been taken to keep it, close up to the face there would have been no accumulation of gas. |
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| 1909 | September | 5 | Bardykes | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Archd. Neil | 40 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When letting two full hutches down incline, break-stick failed to control them, and he was struck by upcoming empty hutches. | |
| 1909 | September | 6 | Bardykes | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Andrew Alexander | 38 | Night overman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on self-acting incline while making a manhole. The fall swung the crowns while they were setting a cross crown at mouth of manhole. (Other two men were injured.) | |
| John Smith | 29 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | September | 8 | Auchengeich | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. McCall | 38 | Pit-bottomer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Leg cut by full hutches jamming him against empty hutch while handling it. Blood poisoning resulted. | |
| 1909 | September | 9 | Monkland No 11 | Lanark | Jas Dunlop & Co Ltd | Thos. Landles, senr. | 68 | Screeman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He fell from steps leading from siding to scree table in front of two moving waggons, and was caught by wheel. | |
| 1909 | September | 9 | Gartshore No 2 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Joseph Conolly | 46 | Reddsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While working on the dook he was caught by three empty hutches which somehow got uncoupled from the race. | |
| 1909 | September | 10 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Finlay, sen | 22 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased was putting a loaded tub on to the carriage when the middle finger of his left hand was crushed between the tub and side of carriage : blood poisoning set in and he died fifteen days later. | |
| 1909 | September | 10 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Daniel McMurray | See entry under 4 August 1909 Newspaper report - Beath pages | ||||
| 1909 | September | 13 | Benarty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Thomson | 47 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was riding up a dook on a rake of tubs when the drawbar of one of the tubs broke, and he was carried by the runaway tubs and crushed by them when they left the rails and overturned. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | September | 13 | Brucefield | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | William Brown | 27 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged taking off coal holed by a coal cutter, when a stone fell, and striking his head fractured his skull causing death next day. | |
| 1909 | September | 14 | Greenfield No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Francis Slavin | 16 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of side at road-head from an unseen lype. | |
| 1909 | September | 15 | Polmaise No 4 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | John Hilley | 37 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | While he and his neighbour were illegally firing a shot of arkite electrically, his neighbour fired the shot before he retired. Another man was injured. | |
| 1909 | September | 23 | Meadowhead | Lanark | Peter Cairns | Thomas Wilson | 17 | Pony-driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased hauled tubs up a dook by means of a horse in rakes of two to a lye. When near the lye he stopped his horse, uncoupled the tubs, and ran one tub at a time to the lye by hand, he did so on this occasion, and while proceeding with the first tub the second followed after, overtook and crushed him fatally. The second tub should have been spragged, but deceased forgot to do so | |
| 1909 | September | 23 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | Robert Millar | 36 | Pitheadman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While deceased was moving a loaded waggon, another waggon was sent away on the next line of rails, unknown to deceased, and it crushed him causing instant death. | |
| 1909 | September | 27 | Deans (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | Thomas Hare | 40 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased with some others was loading shale into tubs from a bing, and when loaded had to jig them on to the haulage rope, he was jigging a tub and when rope moved it he failed to get clear and his leg was fractured : he died six weeks later. | |
| 1909 | September | 29 | Dechmont No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Jas. McInally | 40 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Overcome by fumes of arkite after 3 shots in a blind pit. | |
| 1909 | October | 2 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Cairns | -- | Bottomer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was uncoupling loaded tubs, when a horse rake collided with the tubs and the fingers of his left hand were crashed and badly bruised. He died from blood poisoning ten days later. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | October | 2 | St Flannans No 1 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Jas. Linn | 19 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while filling a hutch. | |
| 1909 | October | 4 | Castlecary (Fireclay) | Stirling | John G Stein & Co Ltd | Daniel McLaren | 28 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased was "bottoming" at a mid working, and after the cage arrived, he opened the gate which fences the shaft, and took off the empty tub. Having placed the tub in empty roadway, he got behind the loaded tub and pushed it forward towards the cage, but cage had gone and he and tub were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. The engineman had not pinned the drum brake down and engine moved away. From Main body of report: The deceased pushed a loaded tub into the shaft when the cage was not at the landing. In this case the engineman permitted the cage to move away after deceased had taken off the empty tub. The system in operation for stopping the cage at the mid working was a bad one ; the descending cage with empty tub was stopped so that a loaded tub was in the opposite or ascending cage, and the ascending cage, being at some distance below the mid working, the engine was apt to move unless as firmly pinned down. |
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| 1909 | October | 5 | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co Ltd | Wm. Houston | 30 | Reddsman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (10pm) He was sent by overman to redd a fall in airway, when his naked light ignited gas. Place had not been previously inspected. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | October | 5 | Gardrum | Stirling | Carron Co | Michael McLackie, Junr | 25 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was holing his coal, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | October | 5 | Donibristle | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Marshall | 23 | Shunter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was attempting to get on to the buffer of a waggon for lookout purposes during a shunt, when he slipped and fell and was run over. | |
| 1909 | October | 6 | Lightshaw No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Sloan | 36 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of coal while taking it down. | |
| 1909 | October | 8 | Lindsay | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Wright | 29 | Miner | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | Deceased and a number of other men were on their way in to their working places in the morning, and were travelling down a 1 in 3 Dook, when a rake of empties was pushed over by an unauthorised person at the top. In endeavouring to get into manholes deceased fell and had his skull fractured and two others were slightly injured. It was alleged that they were all riding in the tubs but there was no proof of this at the Fatal Accidents Inquiry. | |
| 1909 | October | 10 | Dalbeath | Daniel Nisbet | Newspaper report - Beath pages | ||||||
| 1909 | October | 11 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Hugh Boyd | 37 | Sinker | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased and another sinker were descending in the kettle, and when 8 fathoms from the bottom, the kettle struck a beam causing him to be thrown out into the shaft. | Newspaper report |
| 1909 | October | 12 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Cairns | See entry under 2 October 1909 Newspaper report - Beath pages | ||||
| 1909 | October | 12 | Canderigg Broomfield No 4 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Albert Cameron | 30 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working place while holing. | |
| 1909 | October | 16 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | Duncan Livingstone | 23 | Assistant Manager | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased was ascending on cover of cage, after taking some measurements connected with repairs of the shaft, when he took ill and fell off. From Main body of report: The latter was of a peculiarly sad nature; a shaft in which a fatal accident occurred by stone falling from side was under repair, and the manager’s son was assisting. The measurements for barring had been taken of part to be repaired, and deceased, with another man was ascending on cage cover with some pieces of wood, when he became ill, and falling off was precipitated to the bottom. |
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| 1909 | October | 18 | Hamilton Palace No 1 | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | John Gallocher | 50 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of brushing when starting a new place. No supports had been set. | Newspaper report - Bothwellhaugh pages |
| 1909 | October | 18 | Arthur | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Frank Curran | 40 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and his brother were securing a bad part of the roof, when it suddenly collapsed, and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1909 | October | 20 | Berryhill No 2 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Hugh Black Ralston | 40 | Reddsman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (12.30pm) Outburst of firedamp. From Main body of report: To follow | |
| Jas. Currie | 32 | Reddsman | |||||||||
| John Anderson | 30 | Miner | |||||||||
| Robert Anderson | 29 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | October | 20 | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Matchell (Pole) | 26 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was "backening" coal to the road, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Nellie | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | William McDermot | 30 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was filling a tub with debris which had been taken from the side of haulage road, when the roof suddenly collapsed, carrying four sets of timber with it, and burying him beneath. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Rosebank | Fife | John Nimmo & Sons Ltd | James Meiklejohn | 59 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was shovelling out coal at his roadhead, when part of the face of the brushing suddenly burst off, and injured him so severely that he died an hour later. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Meek | 56 | Miner | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | A loaded tub was being run on a "gurdy" braes dipping 1 in 3, and when a short distance down the tubs stopped, owing to the chain on the wheel becoming locked. To get the tubs to move the chain was " pumped," which caused an extra strain, and a "false" link gave out and tubs ran away ; deceased was caught at the bottom of the brae and fatally crushed. | |
| 1909 | October | 23 | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Co | Daniel Jenkins | 30 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased was assisting at a survey on the main haulage road, when a stone fell upon him from the roof. There was a movement on the roof caused by the workings of a seam above. | |
| 1909 | October | 25 | Murdostoun | Lanark | Murdostoun Colliery Co Ltd | Alexander Wotherspoon | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | While deceased and his neighbour were at work, the roof suddenly fell away from between lypes, and killed him. | |
| 1909 | October | 26 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Pottie | 43 | Washery-Engineman | On surface – by machinery | Deceased was oiling the bearings of one of the washery conveying tables while the machinery was going, at a part which was cramped and difficult of access. He was caught and carried several times round the shaft receiving injuries from which he died six days later. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | November | 1 | Ingliston (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | Edward Tinnie | 31 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was boring a hole for a shot, when the face shale came away suddenly, upon him. The fall carried away the sprags which were up to the face. | |
| 1909 | November | 1 | Rosehall No 3 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Francis Croal | 26 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on road while taking hutch along it. | |
| 1909 | November | 5 | Clyde Backmuir No 2 | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Co Ltd | Kazazes Walookauvger | 23 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Struck by a haulage pulley, placed at a bend getting somehow displaced, or by the rope when the pulley gave way. | |
| 1909 | November | 8 | Polquhairn | Ayr | Polquhairn Coal Co Ltd | James Clark | 38 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (8.30am) Fireman allowed him and others to enter a place before he first cleared out gas which was ignited by naked light. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | November | 8 | Loganlea | Edinburgh | United Collieries Ltd | Alex Wood | 19 | chain runner | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | November | 10 | Greenfield No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Edward Lusk | 43 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place owing to props not being set. | |
| 1909 | November | 11 | Bannockburn No 3 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Alex. Ramage | 28 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Returned to a shot of arkite, the fuse of which was thought not to have been kindled. | |
| 1909 | November | 12 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Fisher | 26 | Assistant-Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased was getting the bar of a coal cutter into position, and for that purpose was working the ratchet of the slewing part, when a pinion of the slewing gear broke, and bar came suddenly back the picks caught him inflicting terrible injuries. | |
| 1909 | November | 13 | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co Ltd | David Anderson | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while beneath it knocking out breaker props. | |
| 1909 | November | 16 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Herd | 47 | Contractor | Falls of roof | Deceased was examining a part of his roadway where a bar had fallen away, when the roof collapsed and fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | November | 17 | Portland No 5 | Ayr | Portland Colliery Co Ltd | Leslie Forrest | 40 | Fireman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in main road while inspecting workings for the day shift. | |
| 1909 | November | 19 | Ross | Lanark | Thomas Barr's Trust | Thos. Robb | 24 | Pitheadman | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Fell from mid-working or cage while ascending shaft. | |
| 1909 | November | 20 | Ponisk, Muirkirk | Ayrshire | George Samson |
Death not listed in Inspectors report Injured on 9 January 1901 |
Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages - see under 9 Jan 1901 | ||||
| 1909 | November | 22 | Carronhall | Stirling | Carron Co | Robert Galloway | -- | Shunter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was taking some empty waggons to the screens and in passing some other waggons on another parallel line, he was fatally crushed. There was not sufficient room to pass at the place and evidently deceased had forgotten, as he was well acquainted with the sidings. | |
| 1909 | November | 29 | Shieldmains No 7 | Ayr | A G Moore & Co | Peter Burns | 56 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof while getting coal outside his working place. | |
| 1909 | November | 29 | Loanhead | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | James Hughes | 21 | drawer | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | December | 8 | Dechmont | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | John Wallace | 39 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Shock from electrical lighting lamp or cable. From Main body of report: To follow |
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| 1909 | December | 8 | Whitrigg | Linlithgow | R Forrester & Co Ltd | John Riddoch | 51 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was on his way home, and in walking in front of a rake of tubs appears to have stepped to one side to allow the rake to pass him, and was crushed by tubs: he should have stepped into a manhole. | |
| 1909 | December | 10 | Caprington No 41 | Ayr | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries | Jas. Lennon | 17 | Driver | Miscellaneous underground – irruptions of water | Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. | Report |
| David McCabe | 33 | Miner | |||||||||
| Jas. Menzies | 15 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Peter Dorans | 36 | Waterman | |||||||||
| Alex. Clark | 16 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Chas. McSherry | 15 | Drawer | |||||||||
| John Balfour | 25 | Miner | |||||||||
| John Stewart | 17 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Hugh Ramsay | 19 | Waterman | |||||||||
| Henry Graham | 22 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | December | 13 | Brora | Sutherland | John Melville | William Bryden | 61 | Manager | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Died on January 10th.1910 from injuries received by an explosion of gas when making the statutory examination, under General Rule 4 of the: Coal Mines Act, 1887, with a naked light, on the date named. His vest, which had a calico back, was greasy from contact with the oily parts of a pump, caught fire and he was burned about the small of his back. Gas had been seen in the same place about a fortnight before, and in using a, naked light the deceased contravened General Rule 4 (1). The explosion occurred in a heading which was ventilated by means of a brattice ; this brattice was not properly hung, and there were, in consequence, places where it did not touch the roof and thus allowed the ventilating current to escape before reaching the face. It is probable that if the ventilation had been carried up to the face the gas would not have accumulated. | |
| 1909 | December | 14 | Littlemill | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Gavin Clark | 21 | Chain-runner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Jammed against timber by runaway hutch in engine dook. | |
| 1909 | December | 16 | Polmaise Nos 1 & 2 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | John McNaught | 35 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | While working the controller of coal-cutter he got electrocuted when leaning over the machine. | To follow |
| 1909 | December | 20 | Auchenbegg | Lanark | Waddell & Son | John Duffy | 48 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of coal at coal face, in a close place in stoop and room working. | |
| 1909 | December | 22 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John Keith | 28 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof between lypes in working place when engaged propping roof. | |
| 1909 | December | 22 | Dumbreck No 2 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Lizzie Robertson | 18 | Dirtpicker | On surface – by machinery | Clothing got entangled with counter shaft of screen. | |
| 1909 | December | 23 | Rosehall No12 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Chas. Traynor | 40 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Killed by shot of gelignite blowing through from adjoining place. | |
| 1909 | December | 24 | Drum (Fire clay) | Stirling | Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd | Alexander Cook | 26 | Drawer | Falls of side | While engaged breaking up ganister to fill into a tub, a large stone fell off the face and killed him instantaneously. | |
| 1909 | December | 26 | Queenslie | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | John Jollie | 38 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Stone fell from roof when removing "haulage-tree " in machine wall. | |