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The details below are transcribed from the Mine
Inspector report for 1922. Details not transcribed from these reports are highlighted with a blue background Please note entries are arranged by date of accident. If there is a large gap between accident and date of death, a cross-reference has been inserted, however this has not been done for small gaps, so users should check carefully to ensure entries are not missed. |
| Date of Accident | Hour, hour of shift | Name and Description of Mine* | County | Name of Owner or Company | Firstname | Surname | Age | Occupation | Cause of Accident and Remarks | ||
| Year | Month | Day | |||||||||
| 1921 | August | 4 | 4pm, 2nd hour | Elphingstone | Haddington | Edinburgh Collieries Co.,Ltd | Andrew | Fairgrieve | 30 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side - He was taking down coal at the working face when about 2cwts. of coal and stone fell from the face and crushed him against the building of the waste. He died as a result of the injuries on 31st January 1922 |
| 1921 | September | 2 | 5pm, 3rd hour | Knowton | Lanark | Barr & Thornton, Ltd. | Thomas | Morris | 25 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was boring a shot hole at the face of a stone mine when a large stone fell from the roof and fractured his spine. He died on 20th June 1922. The stone had been tested and an attempt made to get it down but it seemed quite secure. The boring prop, which was set beneath it, was displaced by the fall. |
| 1921 | November | 24 | 1.45pm, 7th hour | Leven, No 4 | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | Robert | McKnight | 37 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – While deceased was shovelling coal to the roadhead a stone from the roof fell upon him, causing fatal injuries. The stone had fallen from between the front row of props and the face, breaking off at a lype next the coal. He died on 24th February. Newspaper report - Fife pages |
| 1921 | December | 7 | 4.30pm, 2nd hour | Dykehead | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co., Ltd. | William | McMillan | 17 | Pony driver | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was filling debris into a hutch at the face of stone drift when the root collapsed without warning and he was pinned under the fallen material. The fall slipped from between two keen lypes and reeled out the supports. He received such injuries that he died on 23rd March 1922. |
| 1922 | January | 3 | Motherwell | Peter | Delidy | Mine Inspectors report | |||||
| 1922 | January | 3 | Kenmuirhill Colliery | Patrick | Gilmour | Fall of stone from roof. FAI record - NAS & death cert. | |||||
| 1922 | January | 6 | 4.15am, 5th hour | Cadder, Nos 2, 15 & 17 | Lanarkshire | Carron Company | Michael | Gibbons | 49 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side - He was repairing near the face of a stone drift and whilst he was shearing the side preparatory to the erection of a set of timber, a slab of blaes weighing about 4 cwts., suddenly slipped. In attempting to evade the stone he fell heavily on his back and sustained a severe injury to his head. The stone struck him about the body and almost severed his left arm. He died about nine hours later. The fireman, chargeman, and deceased examined and tapped the side shortly before the accident and found no indications of danger. The blaes was of a very lipey character. |
| 1922 | January | 6 | 9.45am, 3rd hour | Canderside | Lanark | Jas. Nimmo & Co., Ltd. | Alexander | Smith | 24 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was walking along a main haulage road which was being enlarged, and was near where a shot had been fired. He was killed instantaneously by a stone which fell from the roof. The place had been examined and reported safe after shotfiring. |
| 1922 | January | 10 | 3.30am, 7th hour | Ferniegare | Lanark | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | John | Kelly | 36 | Coal cutting machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was in front of and driving a coal cutting machine. As he removed a prop which was in the path of the machine, a large stone slipped from an invisible lype and between two dry backs and killed him instantaneously. A strap was broken by the fall. Systematic strapping would have prevented the accident. |
| 1922 | January | 14 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Canonbie | Dumfries | Canonbie Coal Co., Ltd. | Samuel | Lindsay | 36 | Drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – Deceased was the hanger-on at the foot of a self-act brae with a gradient of 1 in 4 1/2. The cut-rope method of haulage was in use for four benches. A full tub ran away from No 1 bench owing to the rope having been cut at No. 4 bench. Deceased was crushed by the full tub and died about two and a half hours later. The organisation was defective and no method was in operation of securely holding the cut portion of the rope. |
| 1922 | January | 16 | 10.45am, 4th hour | East Roughrigg | Stirling | Robt. Forrester & Co., Ltd. | James | Sneddon | 38 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was killed by a fall of roof. A piece of blaes about 12 cwt. fell from between two lypes - the piece of blaes was not supported at the outer edge. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | January | 17 | 2.30pm, 7th hour | Whiterigg | Lanark | Giffnock Collieries, Ltd. | George | Stevenson | 42 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased went to the assistance of another man working alongside upon whom a thin slab of stone had fallen at the coal face when a large stone fell from the roof and killed him. The other man was uninjured. One prop was displaced by the fall. The cause of the stone falling was irregular bedding which was concealed by the thin slab aforesaid. The timber was probably set wider than the specified maximum, but this did not contribute to the accident. Systematic strapping would have prevented it. New Monkland accidents |
| 1922 | January | 17 | 3.45am, 5th hour | Auchengeich | Lanark | Jas. Nimmo & Co., Ltd. | William | Buchanan | 20 | Brusher | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was engaged stowing brushing under the low when the roof suddenly collapsed between a keen glassy lype and a weight break. He was killed instantly. |
| 1922 | January | 18 | 8.30am, 2nd hour | Neilsland | Lanark | Jn. Watson, Ltd. | James | Rodden | 57 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working at the face when a fall of roof occurred and killed him instantly. He had only started the previous day in the place, which had been standing for two weeks. The roof in the interval had broken off the face and weighed heavily on the supports. A slight crush movement probably caused collapse and at least four props were displaced. |
| 1922 | January | 18 | 8.45am, 2nd hour | Deans, Nos. 6/7 (Oil Shale Mine) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co., Ltd. | Joseph | Wallace | 25 | Roadsman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was riding with a set of loaded tubs and was completely buried by a fall of roof which occurred on the main incline at the time the set of tubs was passing by No. 17 level. About 12 to 15 tons of blaes fell. He was uninjured but died from suffocation. His body was recovered three-quarters of an hour later. |
| 1922 | January | 18 | 11.30am,5th hour | Polmaise, 3/4 | Stirling | A. Russell, Ltd. | John | Moore | 14 | Shute attendant in washer | On Surface – By Machinery – He went inside the fencing to sweep the top of the riddles whilst the machine was in motion and his coat was caught by a revolving shaft. He was whirled round and killed. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | January | 20 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Philpstoun (Oil Shale) | Linlithgow | Jas. Ross & Co. (Philpstoun Oil Works), Ltd | George | Mitchell | 43 | Miner | Explosions of Firedamp - He was at work with four other miners and the under manager assisting to clear gas from a working place in the Broxburn Shale Seam. An explosion occurred and he was burned on the arms and face. He died 14 days later from the effects of shock. The other five men were more or less burned at the same time. The explosion was said to have been caused by sparks which were emitted from the point of a pick one the men was using, but it is more likely a naked light which was outside the bratticing ignited the gas. |
| 1922 | January | 21 | 10.30am, 5th hour | Fordell | Fife | Countess of Buckinghamshire | Thomas | Cowan | 23 | Machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was flitting the coal cutting machine from one road to another when about seven cwt. of rock fell upon him from the roof and fractured his skull. Newspaper report - Fife pages |
| 1922 | January | 23 | 4.30pm, 2nd hour | Dalbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Allan | 52 | Pony driver | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was run over by a set of loaded hutches which had just brought out on to the passbye. Septic pneumonia supervened, and he died seven days later. |
| 1922 | January | 27 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Auchlochan | Lanark | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries,Ltd. | Duncan | Bulloch | 40 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was engaged on a longwall face throwing coal when a large stone, 9 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, fell from the roof and killed him. Props were used as roof supports and 5 or 6 were displaced. The place was inspected by a fireman about two hours prior to the accident and reported safe. Straps would have provided better support. |
| 1922 | January | 31 | Andrew Fairgrieve - see entry under 4 August 1921 at top of this page | ||||||||
| 1922 | February | 3 | Philpstoun | George | Mitchell | Newspaper report - Lothians pages NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: George Hall Mitchell, miner, 1 Store Buildings, Philpstoun, died on 3 February 1922 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 20 January 1922 in No. 1 Shale Mine, Philpstoun, when an ignition of gas took place and he was burned | |||||
| 1922 | February | 7 | 3.45am, 6th hour | Rosehall No 14 | Lanark | Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | William | Paterson | 33 | Coal cutting machineman | Electricity – Described on page 20 Newspaper report - Old Monkland pages |
| 1922 | February | 8 | 7.30pm, 6th hour | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | William Stewart | Bailey | 49 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working at a stooping face when a small fall of top coal came away from the waste side. He was knocked backwards and fell on top of some loose coal in such a way as to cause internal injuries. He was weak constitutionally and very much run down in health. He died of shock about two hours after the accident occurred. |
| 1922 | February | 10 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Farme | Lanark | Farme Coal Co. (1915), Ltd. | Victor | Kelkevie | 27 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was stripping a downthrow fault which was almost parallel to the line of face when a heavy fall of hard sand-stone occurred between the last row of props and the face. There was evidence that a row of props had been set 4 ft. from the face, but under the special conditions another row should have been set closer up. Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1922 | February | 10 | 1.45pm, 7th hour | Dundonald (West Mine) | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co., Ltd. | Richard Lowe | Smith | 25 | Drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was taking a hutch outbye towards the siding when a drawer in one of the branch roads ran his full tub out on to the plates and struck him against the side of the road, fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous. The drawer in the branch was proceeding without a light. |
| 1922 | February | 14 | 12.30pm, 6th hour | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co., Ltd. | Charles Ronald | McIntosh | 35 | Repairer | Things falling from part way down – He was riding on a bogie in an inclined shaft when he was struck on the head by a small piece of stone and knocked down the shaft 600ft. The stone may have been dislodged by the winding rope or electric cable which was being lowered or by one of a set of men in another bogie 240ft above. The inclined shaft was being unwatered and recovered. – NAS & death cert |
| 1922 | February | 14 | 12.15am, 2nd hour | Dean | Fife | Kingseat Company, Ltd | Richard | Nisbet | 30 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He and another repairer were engaged squaring off an over hanging side which had been gripping the passing tubs on a dipping cross measure drift through sandstone. While he was wedging off a piece a large fall of roof took place and a heavy stone pinned his head to the floor. Death was instantaneous. |
| 1922 | February | 15 | 8.15am, 3rd hour | Wellesley | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co., Ltd. | James | Greig | 18 | Miner's drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was taking a tub up a slightly inclined road by means of a screw clip attached to an endless rope. When he reached the top he was in the act of releasing the clip when his head was crushed between his own tub and one standing on the rails a few yards beyond the top. Death was instantaneous. Newspaper report - Fife pages |
| 1922 | February | 16 | 4.30pm, 2nd hour | Redford | Jas. Nimmo & Co., Ltd. | George | Hawthorn | 56 | Assistant machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Preparatory to starting cutting he was putting on the fender of the machine when he was killed by a fall of rock which also fell partly on the machine. The face was troubled with rolls and lypes, and straps should have been used. | |
| 1922 | February | 16 | 4.45pm,2nd hour | Auchlochan | Lanark | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries,Ltd. | John | Hunter | 27 | Coal cutting machineman | Machinery – He was in charge of a bar coal cutter. He had changed a set of cutting picks and was about to arrange the haulage rope for drawing in when he was caught by the revolving bar and sustained injuries from which he died the following day. He was alone at the moment and exactly what happened is not known. Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1922 | February | 18 | Shale Mine, Deans | Joseph | Wallace | FAI record – NAS "Joseph Wallace, mine roadsman, 41 Glen Road, Livingston Station, died on 18 February 1922 in No. 7 Shale Mine, Deans, Bathgate Parish, Linlithgowshire, when a large quantity of material fell upon him " | |||||
| 1922 | February | 18 | Jawcraig | James | Bryce | Mine Inspectors report | |||||
| 1922 | February | 18 | 9.15am, 3rd hour | Limefield, No 32 (Oil Shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., Ltd | Robert | Russell | 39 | Shale miner |
Explosions of Firedamp - Deceased and other men were
prevented from working in their usual place owing to a fall.
They were given permission to work elsewhere and two of them went up
to a split, which had been inspected two hours before and was unfenced,
although it had not been worked for some weeks.
Gas was ignited and Russell was so badly burned that he died on 23rd
February. Three other men were
also burnt. A creep was
attacking the level and bursting up the pavement and it is believed the gas
came from this. |
| 1922 | February | 24 | Robert McKnight - see entry under 24 November 1921 at the top of this page | ||||||||
| 1922 | February | 28 | 3.30pm, 2nd hour | Knockshinnoch | Ayr | New Cumnock Collieries, Ltd. | Alexander | Hammond | 48 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was engaged extracting a small pillar of crushed coal 9ft by 5 ft and intersected by lypes. He fired a shot in the coal but as it did not do very well he commenced to hole it. In a few minutes a piece of coal 3ft by 2ft by 2ft rolled over from off a “lype” without any warning and, striking his head, caused such injuries that he died about an hour later. The only witness of the accident was a son of deceased, who declared that two sprags were set to the coal that came away. Careful searches made a few minutes after the accident and several times subsequently failed to discover these sprags. The investigation into the accident disclosed the fact that the inspection before commencing work had not been made and that the place had not been visited by a fireman for 3 ½ hours. |
| 1922 | March | 1 | 2.30am, 4th hour | East Parkhead | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd | Martin | Condron | 41 | Brusher |
Explosions of firedamp - described on pages 14 and 15 (to
be added) Newspaper report - Bothwell pages |
| Martin | Lawlor | 36 | Brusher | ||||||||
| 1922 | March | 1 | 1pm, 6th hour | Farme | Lanark | Farme Coal Co. (1915), Ltd. | John | Hall | 34 | Bogieman | Haulage Accidents (c) Other haulage accidents – Deceased was employed in connection with the underground haulage. He was thrown from a bogie attached to a runaway rake of which he was in charge and sustained an apparently slight injury, viz., flesh wound on right knee, but death occurred 59 days later from septic poisoning. The wound was treated by a doctor immediately on arrival at the surface. |
| 1922 | March | 1 | 8.50am, 2nd hour | Valleyfield | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | James Blyth | Erskine | 32 | Wheeler | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – Deceased attached two empty tubs to the rope at the bottom of a self-acting endless rope brae and signalled away. When the empty tubs had travelled a few yards up the brae the lashing chain became detached and they ran back to the bottom of the brae. Erskine was jammed against the side and died half an hour later. |
| 1922 | March | 2 | 6.20am, 1st hour+ | Dysart (Frances Pit) | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries, Ltd. | Frederick | Pitt | 25 | Pithead labourer | Sundries – He stepped on to the cage to close and fix one of the gates after two men had gone on to descend the shaft. While he was on the cage the banksman, having himself fixed the other gate, signalled away the cage. When the cage moved away he tried to get off and was caught between the roof frame of the cage and the pithead flooring. The banksman did not use the keps, nor did he see that both gates were closed before signalling away the cage. |
| 1922 | March | 5 | Bathville | Alexander | McNair | FAI record – NAS "Alexander McNair, Foreman electrician, Station Road, Bathville, Armadale, Linlithgowshire, died on 5 March 1922 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 27 February 1922 in the electrical shop at Bathville, Armadale, when he was burnt by the flame from an explosion of spirit" | |||||
| 1922 | March | 6 | 12 noon, 5th hour | Ayr, No 1 | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | William | Doolan | 47 | Roadsman | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was standing at a junction on a main rope haulage road on which a single hutch was being drawn up. When it reached the junction it left the rails owing to striking the points and pinned deceased against the side of the road. He died on 2nd April from the injuries received. |
| 1922 | March | 7 | 8am, 1st hour | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co., Ltd. | James | Pringle | 21 | Miner's Drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was passing the foot of a steep branch road when he was crushed against the side of the road by a tub brought out by another drawer. His skull was fractured and he died almost immediately. Probably deceased thought he could get past in time and that the other drawer had full control of his tub. |
| 1922 | March | 7 | 8am, 1st hour | Castlehill (No. 2 Pit, Hyndshaw) | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd | Robert | McIvor | 28 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – A small fall had taken place at the face and partly closed the space between the face and the buildings. He was stripping off the coal from the face to enlarge the place to make a free passage for the air current when a piece of stone weiging about 30 cwts. fell from the roof on him. His spine was fractured and his neck dislocated. He died almost immediately. |
| 1922 | March | 8 | NK Glasgow area | Thomas | Forsyth | FAI record – NAS & death cert (died 7 years after accident) | |||||
| 1922 | March | 10 | 5am, 5th hour | Earnock | Lanark | Jn. Watson, Ltd. | William | Copeland | 49 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased had been pushing an empty tub towards his working place when a small stone dropped out from between the roof supports and striking him on the head, inflicted a scalp wound 1 ½ in. in length. Erysipelas, followed by appendicitis, set in. He died on 30th November. |
| 1922 | March | 14 | Shawfield Colliery | David | Tait | FAI record – NAS & death cert | |||||
| 1922 | March | 15 | 8.30pm, 6th hour | Blackrigg No 1 | Linlithgow | United Collieries, Ltd. | Frank | Love | 53 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was injured by a small fall of roof while withdrawing a brushing prop. He died on 29th October, though it is not clear that his death was directly due to the injuries received. |
| 1922 | March | 18 | Grasshill | Robert | Baillie | Mine Inspectors report | |||||
| 1922 | March | 22 | Dykehead Colliery | James Shaw | Clark | FAI record – NAS & death cert | |||||
| 1922 | March | 22 | 3.30pm, 9th hour | Queensberry Lead Mine | Dumfries | Wanlockhead Mining Co., Ltd. | William Thomas | Alexander | 43 | Surface haulage worker | Metalliferous Mines – On surface – Sundries - He overstrained himself while assisting some other workers to lift a mine wagon on to the rails after it had been derailed at a crossing. He worked until the middle of the second day afterwards, then went and consulted a doctor as he was not feeling well. The doctor told him to go to bed, which he did. He died seven weeks later from the effects of a strained heart. |
| 1922 | March | 23 | Aitken | James | Barr | Death cert & RCE - injuries received 23 Feb 1922 while assisting with derailed hutch | |||||
| 1922 | March | 23 | William McMillan - see entry under 7 December 1921 at the top of this page | ||||||||
| 1922 | March | 23 | 3.20pm,9th hour | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Co., Ltd. | Archibald | Davie | 56 | Joiner | On Surface – By Machinery – While he was working beside a revolving shaft, his clothing was caught by a projecting set screw on a collar; he was drawn between the shaft and the floor where he wedged. The pull of the shaft on his clothes then broke his neck. The machinery could have been stopped for him to work safely. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | March | 31 | 3.30am, 6th hour | Dalkeith | Edinburgh | A.G. Moore & Co. | William | Aitken | 27 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was getting coal on a stoop side when the whole of the waste, 500 square yards, fell without warning and he was killed. As a rule plenty of warning was given before a waste fall. It is estimated that over 50props were overridden and swept out and many hundreds of tons of rock fell. |
| 1922 | March | 31 | 11am, 4th hour | Greenfield | Lanark | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | William | Bole | 68 | Bricklayer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was travelling outbye on a bogie attached to a train of six full tubs when he struck a low timber crown supporting the roof and was crushed against the bogie frame. He sustained fractured ribs and injuries to chest. He died from pneumonia four days later. Deceased contravened Section 43(2) of Coal Mines Act, 1911. |
| 1922 | April | 4 | 3.30pm, 1st hour | Southrigg, 3/4 | Linlithgow | United Collieries, Ltd. | Robert | Rennie | 27 | Bogieman | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – His spine was fractured by his being crushed between the bogie and the roof. He died five days later. The road was 3 ft. 3 in high at the place of accident. |
| 1922 | April | 6 | 9.45pm, 7th hour | Bothwell Castle 3/4 | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | Edward | Whitton | 35 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was getting down machine cut coal on a long-wall face when, without warning, a stone fell from the roof causing injuries. The place was inspected by a fireman within two hours of the accident. The stone was 12ft long, parallel to the face and 3ft 6in at the widest part. Three straps are said to have been run out by the fall. |
| 1922 | April | 7 | 8.20am, 3rd hour | Cowdenbeath No 7 | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Donaldson | 40 | Surface foreman | On Surface – By Machinery – He was starting the screening plant engine which had centred. After opening the throttle valve he was turning the fly wheel by hand, and when the engine got off the centre it ran faster than he expected. He was pulled forward and pitched down through a hole in the floor on to the sidings, 12 ft below, alighting on his head, and sustaining a fracture of the skull and a fracture of the right arm. He never regained consciousness and died about 12 hours later. |
| 1922 | April | 7 | 1.30pm, 7th hour | Bailliesmuir | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co., Ltd. | Thomas | Allison | 56 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was passing along the working face when he was killed by a piece of stone, 6ft by 2ft by 7in which fell from between two lypes in the roof. The piece of stone was entirely unsupported. |
| 1922 | April | 10 | 9am, 2nd hour | Bothwell Park | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | William | Boyd | 31 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was filling coal under the brushing at the roadhead of an ordinary longwall place when he was struck down by a large stone which fell from the roof. He sustained severe injuries which caused death the following day. The proximity of a fault rendered the roof lipey and dangerous. The stone fell out from between two lypes and displaced two supports. An inspection of the place was made by the fireman about one hour prior to the accident and with the exception of instructing the miner in charge to set an additional prop at the roadhead, which instruction was carried out, he found the place, in general, in safe working order. |
| 1922 | April | 11 | 7.40am, 9th hour | Viewpark | Lanark | Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Andrew | Martin | 45 | Miner |
Explosions of firedamp - described on page 15 (to
be added) Newspaper report - Bothwell pages |
| John | Chalmers | 21 | Miner | ||||||||
| 1922 | April | 14 | Bailliesmuir | Thomas | Allison | Newspaper report - Bothwell pages | |||||
| 1922 | April | 19 | 12.15pm, 6th hour | Earnock | Lanark | Jn. Watson, Ltd. | Robert | Campbell | 53 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof –Deceased was working at the face of the first 12 ft. lift which had only advanced some 3 ft. from a 10 ft. skirting which had been carried along a stoop in course of extraction. Without warning a heavy fall occurred along the length of the face, and some 6ft. wide. The fall came out from between two weight breaks. The timber was run out and buried. Deceased was extricated within half an hour but had been suffocated. The place was inspected by a fireman within an hour of the accident and reported safe. |
| 1922 | April | 19 | 11.15pm, 2nd hours | Foxley | Lanark | J. Dunn & Stephen, Ltd. | John | Webster | 30 | Brusher | Miscellaneous Underground – By Explosives – Webster and another prepared two shots for firing at the brushing face. Both shots fired by fuse and detonator were lighted at the same time, one by each workman. It is alleged that Webster and his companion heard both shots and Webster went back into the place. He was found by his companion a few minutes later severely injured by the shot which he (Webster) had lighted. He died three days later. The shot may have hung fire and Webster did not want to wait the statutory period. The accident was primarily the result of the dangerous practice of firing two fuse shots at the same time. Webster contravened the provisions of the explosives in Coal Mines Orders. |
| 1922 | April | 19 | 11pm, 1st hour | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | Patrick | Clark | 37 | Machine Wall Timberman and Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was sitting near a chain coal cutter while the machinemen were preparing to turn it, after which he would have commenced timbering and taking off noses of coal in front of the machine. While he was waiting a fall of roof took place and one of the stones crushed him to the floor, fracturing his spine and dislocating his neck - death was instantaneous. A large area of roof had been left un-timbered to allow the machine to be turned without obstruction and the fall was the result of the lack of timber in the area over and near the machine. |
| 1922 | April | 21 | 3pm, 1st hour | Shotts (Calderhead No 4) | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd | Alexander | McLean | 52 | Brusher | Ascending or Descending by Machinery – He was entering the cage to commence work on the afternoon shift when the engineman lowered away the cage, He was crushed between the end of the cage and the floor at the banking level, and was killed instantly. The keps were not in position to support the cage. |
| 1922 | April | 25 | 6.45pm, 4th hour | Leven 1/2 | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | Thomas | Clark | 32 | Machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was driving a coal cutter in a section where the roof was bad and where the coal would not stand up to support straps next the line of face. The roof had been weighting and caused the coal to sit down on the disc of the machine. After twice clearing the disc he was about to switch on the power when a fall of roof took place on top of the machine, one of the stones crushing his head against the switch and fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous. |
| 1922 | April | 26 | 12 noon, 6th hour | Newbattle | Edinburgh | The Lothian Coal Co., Ltd. | Thomas | Kerr | 65 | Wagonman | Railways, sidings or tramways - He was passing between wagons during the course of his work, when they were bumped together by some additional wagons being added to the set. He was caught between buffers and died in a few minutes. |
| 1922 | April | 26 | 7am, 8th hour | Clyde | Lanark | Clyde Coal Co., Ltd | Samuel | Gourlay | 30 | Coal cutting machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was driving a coal cutting machine across the hill in a heading rising at a gradient of 1 in 4. The brushing face which was flush with the coal was ranced up by two props driven on to a plank. At the moment the machine was stopped at the completion of the cut, it cleared one of the stells, swung down the hill and knocked out one of the supports to the brushing face. A stone was relieved which fractured both legs of deceased; one was a compound injury. Death resulted subsequent to an operation in the Infirmary seven days later. The fireman was present when the accident occurred. |
| 1922 | April | 27 | Hour & hour of shift unknown | Straiton No 3 (Limestone) Mine | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd. | Thomas | Henderson | 53 | Limestone miner | Metalliferous Mines – Miscellaneous underground – Sundries - On returning home from work he alleged that he had been turning over a stone with a pinch bar when it fell back on the bar and gave him a strain. Pneumonia set in and he died on 3rd May. |
| 1922 | April | 29 | John Hall - see 1 March 1922 | ||||||||
| 1922 | May | 1 | 12am, 5th hour | Douglas Castle | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd | John | Gold | 54 | Bricklayers' Labourer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – At a point on a level road in a seam dipping 1 in 1 widening operations were in progress for the purpose of installing a haulage preparatory to sinking a dook. Without warning a fall of roof occurred on the level and killed Gold instantly. The stone which fell was triangular, 6 ft. 8 in. by 5 ft. 9in. by 4 ft. 6 in. and 8 in. thick, bounded by a “lype” and smooth joints. There was a large area (18 ft. by 31 ft.) of roof exposed with only 5 or6 props as supports. Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1922 | May | 2 | Samuel Gourlay - see 26 April 1922 | ||||||||
| 1922 | May | 2 | 12.50pm, 6th hour | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co., Ltd. | Robert | Boyd | 45 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Whilst deceased was taking down a piece of holed coal, part of the overlying stratum of blaes, 16 in. thick, fell away from an invisible lype and displaced several props. He was buried under the fall and sustained serious injury to the spine which caused his death on 15th June. Newspaper report - Dalserf pages |
| 1922 | May | 2 | 5am, 8th hour | East Plean | Stirling | Plean Colliery Co., Ltd. | Alexander | Wilson | 33 | Machineman | Machinery – He was in a kneeling position about three yards from the haulage pulley of the machine, keeping an eye on the piece of rail used as a hauling tree to see that it did not slip when the strain came on after resetting. The machine had only cut about 6 in. when the link between the tree and the pulley “D” link broke and the pulley flew towards the machine, owing to the elasticity in the rope under strain, and struck him on the head, fracturing the base of his skull. He never regained consciousness and died within 24 hours Such tackle should be very carefully examined, and to prevent such an accident a prop should be set close to the pulley between the two sides of the rope. |
| 1922 | May | 3 | 1.30pm, 7th hour | Shettleston 3/4 | Lanark | Mount Vernon Colliery Co., Ltd. | George | Paxton | 47 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working at the face of a 3 ft. seam which was overlain by a bed of soft damp lipey blaes, 3 to 5 ft. thick. Above the blaes was a thick bed of strong sandstone. He had been winning out the wall and propping up the blaes, when it suddenly collapsed and displaced the supports. He was buried in the debris and killed outright. No one witnessed the accident. The fireman inspected the place about two and a half hours prior to the occurrence and found everything in order. The blaes seemed to have slipped from a well-defined lype which would be invisible before the fall occurred. |
| 1922 | May | 3 | Thomas Henderson - see 27 April | ||||||||
| 1922 | May | 9 | 8.10pm, 6th hour | Clydeside | Lanark | The United Collieries, Ltd. | Robert | Martin | 51 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was working at the coal face when a fall of roof occurred and he was killed instantly. The accident happened at the waste end of a longwall face where a piece of coal 45 ft. wide was some 15 ft. behind the remainder of the face. The stone which fell was bounded by a break, a lype, and a fault slip. Some timber was run out by the fall. The timbering rule was apparently not contravened, but straps were not in use. The place was inspected by a fireman and reported safe within two hours of the accident. |
| 1922 | May | 10 | 7.45am, 1st hour | Greenhill No 10 | Lanark | Auchinlea Coal Co., Ltd. | Archibald | MacDonald | 26 | Roadsman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was acting as haulageman. and, whilst he was travelling outbye behind a load rake a fall of roof occurred, and he was instantly killed. The roof fell over a length of 4 ft. 5 in. The fall came away from a lype, which must have been visible prior to the accident. it had not been observed by any of the officials. Newspaper report - Shotts pages |
| 1922 | May | 10 | William Thomas Alexander - see 22 March | ||||||||
| 1922 | May | 12 | 10.40pm, 1st hour | Cultrig | Linlithgow | Barr & Thornton, Ltd. | George | Gray | 48 | Coal cutterman | Machinery – Owing to the starting switch having become jammed by coal he had switched off with the reversing switch. He was crossing the exposed disc and accidentally caused the reversing switch to close, thereby starting the machine. He was cut to pieces. |
| 1922 | May | 16 | 12.10am, 2nd hour | Mossbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | Peter | Hogg | 51 | Assistant machineman | Machinery – He was steadying the newly set haulage tree about 3 ft in front of a bar coal cutting machine, which was about to cut through a nose of coal “bar first,” until the tree should be tightened by the strain on the rope. While doing so he allowed his foot to get too close to the revolving bar, and the picks caught his boot and pulled him in, injuring him so severely that he died in a few minutes. Men should not be allowed to work in such dangerous positions. Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1922 | May | 22 | 6.30am, 12th hour | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co., Ltd. | Michael | McGovern | 20 | Assistant machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was gumming behind a disc coal cutter when a fall of roof occurred, killing him almost instantly. The area over which the roof fell was 7 ft. parallel to the face and 5 ft. wide. Two straps were broken by the fall. The place had been weighting slightly, but the fireman had inspected it 15 minutes before the accident occurred and considered it safe. Deceased commenced work at 7 p.m., and was killed at 6.30 am. Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1922 | May | 22 | 2.45am,4th hour | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | James Lambert | Johnston | 38 | Machineman | Electricity – Described on page 20 |
| 1922 | May | 26 | 1.30am, 4th hour | Polkemmet | Linlithgow | Wm. Dixon Ltd. | Robert | Campbell | 18 | Sinker | Falling from part way down – Cage guides were being fitted in No 1 shaft after completion of the sinking. Deceased, in order to tighten up a bolt more conveniently, attempted to spring on to a bunton, but was caught by the plumb line and fell 180ft into the sump. The scaffold on which he was working was not provided with a fence. The use of safety belts would probably have prevented the accident. |
| 1922 | May | 27 | 5.45am, 1st hour | No 14 Rosehall | Lanark | R. Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Robert | Reid | 57 | Fireman | Miscellaneous Underground – By Fires - A fire originated near the foot of a dook where two electrically driven pumps were working. Sometime prior to the outbreak owing to a pump breakdown the ventilation was cut off by the water rising. The fire was put out by flooding. A part of the dook beyond the air course was filled with fumes and whilst arrangements were being made for their removal by ventilation, deceased without instructions, travelled therein and was overcome. |
| 1922 | May | 31 | 9.45am, 3rd hour | Loanhead (Ramsay Pit) | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd. | William | Hall | 32 | Wagon trimmer | Railways, sidings or tramways – He was moving wagons on the railway siding when he was crushed between the wagons and the staging of the stocking ground. He died the same day. |
| 1922 | June | 8 | 5.50am, 7th hour | Leven No 4 | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | William | Winstanley | 50 | Repairer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was pushing at the back of a rake of empty tubs which had just arrived, to get them over the brow at the top of a self-acting incline, when the rake ran back on him owing to the loaded rake being detached at the bottom of the brae. He was crushed so severely between the tubs and the roof girders, which were only a few inches higher than the tubs, that he died within an hour of the occurrence. |
| 1922 | June | 8 | 2.30am, 6th hour | Batonrigg | Lanark | Baton Collieries, Ltd. | Alexander | Skelly | 39 | Coal cutting machine contractor |
Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side –
Whilst he was driving a coal
cutting machine a piece of rock weighing about 30 cwts. fell from the roof
on him. He was killed instantly. The rock fell from between two breaks which
met at the coal face. |
| 1922 | June | 9 | 2pm, 7th hour | Bothwell Park | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | William | Lapinskie | 16 | Drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was on his way outbye after completing his shift and was passing a stationary rake of full tubs, when they were moved. He was found under the tubs, so severely injured that he died shortly afterwards. It was a mechanical haulage road upon which travelling was prohibited when the haulage was in motion. |
| 1922 | June | 12 | 12.30pm, 6th hour | Blantyreferme | Lanark | A.G. Moore & Co. | Thomas | O'Neill | 38 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was employed at the face of a machine run where the cut coal is stripped on ”end.” On removing a sprag only half the depth of the cut coal, in a length of 5 ft., fell. While he was engaged shovelling the fallen coal the remaining portion of the overhanging coal rolled over without warning, and he pinned underneath a slab, weighing about three cwts. He sustained internal injuries which caused death eight days later. The accident would have been avoided if the remaining portion of the unspragged coal had been taken down prior to commencing shovelling |
| 1922 | June | 15 | Robert Boyd - see 2 May 1922 | ||||||||
| 1922 | June | 20 | Thomas Morris - see entry under 2 September 1921 at the top of this page | ||||||||
| 1922 | June | 27 | 7.15pm, 6th hour | Muircockhall | Fife | H. Ness & Co., Ltd. | Henry | Cant | 45 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He had been timbering and repairing a broken down roadhead and was beginning to erect a roadside pillar when a further fall of roof rock and blaes swung out two straps and a crown and killed him. Another man was slightly injured. The working of a seam below had broken the ground. |
| 1922 | June | 27 | Gilmilnscroft | Alexander | Wyper | Mine Inspectors report | |||||
| 1922 | June | 27 | 9.35pm, 7th hour | Westwood (Shale) | Linlithgow | Oakbank Oil Co., Ltd. | John | Renwick | 14 | Hanger-on | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – Whilst proceeding up a wheel brae he was run over by runaway tubs. He was severely injured and died the following day. |
| 1922 | June | 27 | 2.20pm, 8th hour | Loganlea | Edinburgh | United Collieries, Ltd. | James | Smith, Junr. | 22 | Chainer | Sundries – He was searching for a coupling which he had hidden on the old dirt bing, which had been on fire for a year. When he was going down the side of the bing the surface crust broke, and he sank into the burning interior. He received severe burning injuries to abdomen and legs, and died on 16th July. |
| 1922 | July | 3 | 8am, 1st hour | Kames, No. 1/2 | Ayrshire | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | David | Loggie | 42 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Whilst he was loading a hutch a fall of roof occurred resulting in his death before he could be extricated. The area over which the roof fell was 9 ft. wide by 15 ft. long; three or four straps were broken by the fall. The place had been abandoned four days previously but was not fenced off; deceased had no right to be there. Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages |
| 1922 | July | 3 | Cowdenbeath | Thomas Honeyman | Paterson | Newspaper report - Beath pages | |||||
| 1922 | July | 5 | 6pm, 4th hour | Quarter, Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 5 | Lanark | United Collieries, Ltd. | James | Lennox | 55 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was loading a hutch in a small stoop when a fall of roof occurred injuring him to such an extent that he died about 30 minutes later. The area over which the roof fell was 6 ½ ft long by 4ft 5 in: two “trees” were reeled out by the fall. The place had been examined by the fireman threequarters previously and reported safe, but a quantity of coal had been removed in the interval. |
| 1922 | July | 6 | 7.15pm, 5th hour | Lochore (Mary, No 1 Pit) | Fife | Fife Coal CO., Ltd. | Patrick | Murphy | 35 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was buried by a heavy fall of roof. His skull was fractured. It took three hours to recover the body. |
| 1922 | July | 7 | 10.45 am, 5th hour | Wellesley | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Gilmour | 61 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was in the act of taking loose coal off the waste working place when 11 cwts. of crow coal fell from the roof and killed him instantly. Newspaper report - Fife pages |
| 1922 | July | 10 | 2am, 4th hour | Rosehall No 14 | Lanark | Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Joseph | McMullan | 35 | Pan shifter | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was trying to disconnect one of the bridges of a Blackett face conveyer when a fall of roof occurred pinning him down. Before he could be liberated a further fall took place which killed him almost instantly. The area over which the roof fell was 5 ft long by 4 ft. wide, the distance of deceased from the face being 11 ft. The place had been examined by the fireman about 15 minutes previously and reported safe. Systematic strapping might have prevented the accident. Newspaper report - Old Monkland pages |
| 1922 | July | 12 | 8am, 1st hour | Bank, 1/2 | Ayr | New Cumnock Collieries, Ltd. | James | Miller | 21 | Drawer | Miscellaneous Underground – By Explosives – He was pushing a hutch along a heading when a breaking-through shot fired in a cross heading blew through the side killing him practically instantly. Verbal warning had not been sent that a shot was to be fired, although there were not more than 3 ft. of coal between the two places. |
| 1922 | July | 13 | 1.25pm, 7th hour | East Plean | Stirling | East Plean Colliery Co., Ltd | John | Barlow | 29 | Miner |
Explosions of firedamp - An explosion carried on by coal dust took place
folloing a blown out shot and the men were killed by the explosion.
The chief inspector held an inquiry and published a report on the accident. East Plean Accident page |
| Thomas | Bryden | 50 | Miner | ||||||||
| Daniel | Forsyth | 17 | Drawer | ||||||||
| Alexander | Henderson | 20 | Drawer | ||||||||
| John | Hunter | 29 | Miner | ||||||||
| James Murdoch | Jarvie | 19 | Drawer | ||||||||
| William Robertson | Lennie | 48 | Miner | ||||||||
| Bernard | McCann | 29 | Miner | ||||||||
| James | McGowan | 35 | Miner | ||||||||
| David | Munnoch | 25 | Miner | ||||||||
| William | Munnoch | 49 | Contractor | ||||||||
| James | Wilson | 31 | Shot firer | ||||||||
| 1922 | July | 16 | James Smith - see 27 June | ||||||||
| 1922 | July | 17 | 1pm, 3rd hour | Polmaise, 1/2 | Stirling | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | Patrick | Marren | 28 | Coal cutting machineman | Machinery – He was ratchetting in the bar of a coal cutting machine while in a kneeling position. Owing to the machine making a sudden slip away from him he overbalanced. The picks caught his loose clothing and he was drawn round the bar. He received severe abdominal injuries and died 17 hours later. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | July | 17 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Mosside No 4 | Linlithgow | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd | Christopher | Connelly | 48 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was seriously injured by a piece of craw coal which fell from the roof. He was actually taking this down at the time. The piece which fell measured 12ft by 4 ft by 2ft 3 in. He died a few hours later. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | July | 19 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Grasshill, Nos 1/2 | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd | Archibald | Allison | 20 | Miner's drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was employed as a wheelman on a cousie brae. An empty tub, becoming detached from the brae chain, ran into him, inflicting injuries from which he died about 16 hours later. Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages |
| 1922 | July | 20 | Shale Mine, Duddingston | Archibald | Gilbert | FAI record – NAS "Archibald Gilbert, miner, 30 Oakbank Place, Winchburgh, Kirkliston Parish, Linlithgowshire, died on 20 July 1922 at his house, from blood poisoning resulting from a cut on his left thumb sustained on 10 July 1922 in No. 6 Level, East Side, No. 3 Shale Mine, Duddingston, Abercorn Parish" | |||||
| 1922 | July | 24 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Govan 5/6 | Lanark | Wm. Dixon, Ltd. | John | Buchanan | 28 | Drawer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was turning a hutch on the steel plates at the junction of two roads when a fall of roof occurred, killing him almost instantly. The area over which the roof fell was 18 ft long and 8 ft wide. The fireman inspected the place about one hour before the accident happened and found it safe. The room was not supported. |
| 1922 | July | 25 | 6pm, 4th hour | Bothwell Castle 3/4 | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd | William | Cassidy | 43 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was back strapping on a machine face when the roof fell over an area 14ft long by 8ft wide, killing him almost instantly. The fall occurred when taking out the first “web” after a stand of about ten days. The place had been examined by the fireman about one hour before and reported safe. Some timber was displaced by the fall. Newspaper report - Blantyre pages |
| 1922 | July | 28 | 12.30pm, 6th hour | Townhead No 1 | Lanark | United Collieries, Ltd. | Joseph | Jordan | 41 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof –While deceased was throwing machine-cut coal towards the roadhead a stone fell away from a lype in the roof between the supports and the coal face, causing a simple fracture of the left thigh. He was removed to the Infirmary where he died under the influence of an anæsthetic five days later. |
| 1922 | July | 31 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Minto | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co., Ltd. | Wm. | McLaughlan | 42 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was stripping coal from the face when a piece of fakey blaes, weighing about one cwt., fell from the roof and fractured his skull. He died 13 days later. |
| 1922 | August | 1 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Greenfield | Lanark | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | Adam | Casement | 34 | Pony driver | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was coming out of a level road with his pony and one full hutch when a fall of roof occurred and he was killed. The place was repaired on the previous shift and examined by the fireman shortly before the accident, and no danger was anticipated. Several of the supporting bars were notched into soft strata and, in all probability, the slipping of these unstable supports caused the collapse. Newspaper report - Hamilton pages |
| 1922 | August | 3 | 2.40pm, 1st hour | Thankerton | Lanark | J. Andrew & Co., Ltd. | James | Young | 64 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was cutting a projection off the coal face, preparatory to it being “holed” by a disc machine, when a fall of roof occurred, killing him instantly. Four straps were broken by the fall which covered an area 12 ft. long by 4 ft. wide. The place had been examined by the fireman about one and a half hours before and reported safe. |
| 1922 | August | 3 | 3.30am, 7th hour | Hassockrigg | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co., Ltd | Robert | McVicar | 21 | Coalcutting machineman | Machinery – He was ratchetting in the bar of a coal cutting machine while in a kneeling position. Owing to the ratchet key slipping suddenly off the pin he overbalanced and fell on to the revolving bar. He received severe injuries to the right side and back of the upper part of the body and died almost immediately. |
| 1922 | August | 7 | 11.30am, 5th hour | Loganlea | Edinburgh | United Collieries, Ltd. | Robert | Paton | 59 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased had returned to his working place after firing a shot when a fall of roof occurred and completely buried him. He was killed instantly. It took two hours to recover his body. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | August | 7 | 12 noon, 5th hour | Annandale, Nos. 1, 4, 9 & 11 | Ayr | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries,Ltd. | Joseph | Picken | 64 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was engaged in proving the coal beyond a 3 ft. upthrow fault which had been encountered across the whole width of his working place. A portion of roof alongside the fault, measuring 15 ft. 3 in. long. 6 ft. broad, and 6 in. average thickness, fell without any warning and killed him instantly. Having regard to its dangerous nature, which was fully realised, the roof should have been more closely timbered. Newspaper report - Ayrshire pages |
| 1922 | August | 8 | 3.20pm, 2nd hour | Vogrie | Edinburgh | G. Paul & Sons, Ltd. | Andrew | Hamilton | 40 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was working at the face of the level when a fall of head coal took place. A piece weighing half a cwt. struck him on the head and fractured his skull. He was killed instantly. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | August | 15 | William McLaughlin - see entry under 31 July | ||||||||
| 1922 | August | 23 | 5.15am, 7th hour | Bothwell Castle 1/2 | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | John | McGinley | 23 | Brusher | Falling from part way down – Men were waiting at a mid-inset to ascend the shaft. The cage arrived at the inset but was drawn away whilst two men were attempting to get on. Both men fell down the shaft and were killed. The onsetter had allowed one of the deceased men to open the shaft gate and either he signalled the cage away or the engineman was at fault. Newspaper report - Bothwell pages |
| John | McFadden | 34 | Brusher | ||||||||
| 1922 | August | 24 | 10am, 3rd hour | Bedlay | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | Samuel | McGeachie | 30 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was carrying out his ordinary work at the face when he was killed instantaneously by the fall of a wedge-shaped stone, weighing about 12 cwts., which came away from a keen glassy back in the roof. The specified distance between the last row of props and the face was exceeded at the place where the accident occurred. In all probability the accident would have been prevented if the timbering rules had been observed. No timber was displaced by the fall. The place had not been inspected by a fireman for nearly five hours. Newspaper report - Old Monkland pages |
| 1922 | August | 24 | 7.45am, 1st hour | Holytown | Lanark | Jas. Nimmo & Co., Ltd. | Martin | Murphy | 56 | Miner | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was going up a main cousie brae on his way to work at the same time as a rake was arriving at the brae head from a branch cousie. A tub became detached from this rake and ran down the main cousie. Deceased was caught by the runaway, and although the injuries inflicted appeared to be slight he died about two hours later. The necessary signals for men to travel on the cousie had been given, but it is probable the stop blocks at the brae head were not closed |
| 1922 | August | 25 | 1pm, 6th hour | Polbeth No. 26, Shale Mine | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co., Ltd | Alexander | Kinsman | 35 | Shale miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was sitting at the face drilling a shot-hole when a piece of top shale fell and struck him on the hip. He walked home, pneumonia supervened and he died on 26th October. |
| 1922 | August | 28 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Westwood Shale Pit | Linlithgow | Oakbank Oil Co., Ltd. | Frank | Fee | 33 | Contractor | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was engaged clearing up after a fall of side, preparatory to replacing broken timber on a level. He was taking loose shale from the roof when a fall of nearly a ton of shale pinned him against the side and caused fatal injuries. Crush, due to extraction of stoops, together with a lype, accounted for the fall. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | August | 30 | 11.30pm, 2nd hour | Fauldhead 3/4 | Dumfries | Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries, Ltd. | John | McNaught | 18 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was following an empty hutch up a cuddy brae when a stone fell from the roof on to him, inflicting injuries from which he died six days later. The area over which the roof fell was 8 ft. 3 in. by 5 ft. 3 in. and 5in. thick. The place had been examined by the fireman about two hours before and reported safe. The roof was hard sandstone. |
| 1922 | September | 5 | 1.40am, 3rd hour | Viewpark | Lanark | Robt. Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Michael | Cassidy | 36 | Brusher | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was employed excavating a refuge hole at the side of a stone drift. The roof was supported by girders resting on props. Prior to firing shots to make the refuge holes centre props were set to the girders, but the shots blew out some of the end centre props. Deceased was renewing the timber when a heavy fall occurred sweeping out three girders and killing him. |
| 1922 | September | 6 | 12.15pm, 6th hour | Broomrigg No 2/3 and Knowhead | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Hamilton | 39 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was sitting inside a line of timber pinching down holed coal in a narrow place which had just started in solid coal next to an old waste. A large stone fell on him, pinned him down and suffocated him. |
| 1922 | September | 15 | Valleyfield | Daniel | McQuade | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased along with the leading machineman, was in the act of putting the haulage chain of the machine into line close to the coal face after shifting the haulage anchor post, when a large stone, about two tons in weight, fell from the face of the brushing at a branch road, which was in course of being brushed, and caught them both. Deceased’s head and shoulders were crushed to the floor and death was instantaneous. The leading machineman was only slightly injured. Had the brushers set temporary props to support the face of the brushing left on by the shot which had been fixed until another shot, which had to be fired later, was ready to be fired, this accident would not have occurred. A large portion of the blame for the accident lies with the brusher in charge of the place at the time. Newspaper report - Fife pages | |||||
| 1922 | September | 19 | Greenhill | George Moir | Baillie | Newspaper report - Shotts pages | |||||
| 1922 | September | 20 | 1am, 3rd hour | Canderrigg | Lanark | J. Nimmo & Co., Ltd | George | Morton | 29 | Coal cutting machineman | Machinery – When fresh picks had been inserted in the cutting disc, which was embedded about 18 in in the former cut, deceased switched on the electric current. Immediately the machine kicked out from the face, spun round, and displaced a number of roof supports. Deceased was caught by the revolving disc and buried under a fall of roof, sustaining injuries which resulted in death 12 hours later. The machine kicked out as the result of the resistance offered to the fresh wide or double picks by the hard floor and shallow holings. Provision should be made to permit of the disc turning freely with fresh picks at the commencement of a cut. Newspaper report - Dalserf pages |
| 1922 | September | 23 | 8am, 2nd hour | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Graham | 26 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was preparing to set a crown when a slab of stone 34 ft. by 2 ft. by 6 in. fell from the roof upon his head. The removal of coal from the side had liberated the stone. His injuries proved fatal on 14th October. |
| 1922 | September | 26 | 7.30am, 1st hour | Milnwood | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd | John | Kerrigan | 33 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was getting down coal at the face when a fall of roof occurred, killing him almost instantly. The fall was 7 ft. 6 in. long parallel to the face, 4 ft. 6 in. wide and 1 ft. 6m. deep at its thickest part and came away from a parting. Four trees were displaced by the fall. The place had been examined by the fireman 15 minutes previously and appeared to be safe. |
| 1922 | September | 27 | 2pm, 7th hour | Pumpherston, No 4 | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co., Ltd. | James | Provan | 59 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working alone in the first break into a pillar of a stooping section in a steep working. Since he did not appear at the surface at stopping time he was searched for and discovered lying dead in his working place. Death was due to dislocation of the neck probably caused by a small fall of shale from the roof causing him to overbalance and fall down the steep working. |
| 1922 | September | 29 | 9pm, 6th hour | Stane | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd. | John | Cain | 51 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was completely buried and suffocated before he could be released from underneath a fall of three tons of fakes and fireclay. The fall occurred as he was passing along the road. Newspaper report - Shotts pages [Correct name is John Johnston] |
| 1922 | September | 29 | 3.30pm, 2nd hour | Banknock (Livingstone Pit) | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co., Ltd. | Robert | Leishman | 58 | Explosive attendant | By explosives - A box of damp gunpowder was being destroyed in a field. A fuse about 2 ½ ft long was to be used and when he was lighting it the gunpowder exploded. It is supposed that a spit from the fuse entered the open box. He was extensively burned, and died from injuries on 8th October. The manager had warned him about a fortnight before not to destroy the gunpowder because there had been a previous accident. |
| 1922 | October | 2 | 1.10pm, 7th hour | Fauldhead Nos. 1/2 | Dumfries | Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries, Ltd. | John | Brown | 30 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working at the face of a longwall place when a stone 7 ft. 3 in. long parallel to the face, 2ft. wide and 6 in. thick fell from the roof, causing injuries from which he died four days later. The stone came from two weight breaks. One prop was reeled out by the fall. The place was inspected by a fireman two hours before the accident and was considered safe. The timbering was not contravened, but systematic strapping would have prevented the accident. Newspaper report - Dumfriesshire pages |
| 1922 | October | 2 | 11.30pm, 2nd hour | Cowdenbeath (Foulford) | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | John | Hannah | 37 | Machineman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – The face had “taken a weight” during the weekend and he was assisting the repairers to make it safe. WhiIst pulling down some broken roof he released a keystone and caused a piece of rock weighing over a ton to fall upon him. His neck was dislocated. The previous working of a seam about 12 ft. below had caused breaks in the roof. Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1922 | October | 4 | 9.30am, 3rd hour | Tannochside | Lanark | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | William | Chalmers | 17 | Surface worker | Sundries – He was employed running tubs on the scaffold which connected the banking level and the top of a steam hoist. Part of the scaffold collapsed, and he fell to the ground, a distance of 21 ft. He received injuries which caused death seven hours later. |
| 1922 | October | 4 | 6.30pm, 4th hour | Elphinstone (Fleets Pit) | Haddington | Edinburgh Collieries Co., Ltd | Alexander | McDonald | 50 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof –In the course of clearing away a fall of roof which took place at a cross roads near a pump house, he exposed himself under a weak roof in order to break a large stone. A further fall of half-a-ton of black fakes took place ad crushed him, causing internal injuries and fractures of the leg and arm. He died four hours later. |
| 1922 | October | 6 | 12.30pm, 5th hour | Giffnock | Renfrew | Giffnock Collieries, Ltd. | Duncan | McEwan | 53 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was holing on a longwall face when a fall of roof occurred, killing him almost immediately. The fall was 8ft long, parallel to the face, 2ft 7in wide and 6in thick, and came away from a smooth parting. One prop was knocked out by the fall. The timbering rule was contravened. The place had been examined by the fireman about 1 ¼ hours previously and then appeared to be safe. Systematic strapping would probably have prevented the accident. Renfrewshire accidents |
| 1922 | October | 6 | John Grant Brown - see 2 October | ||||||||
| 1922 | October | 8 | Robert Leishman - see 29 September | ||||||||
| 1922 | October | 9 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Hattonrigg | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co., Ltd. | Nikademas | Zidrauskas | 33 | Miner | Explosions of Firedamp – Deceased had gone with his naked light through a fence into a road, which had been disused for three months, and exploded some gas which had collected probably from the stopping and starting of an auxiliary fan. He was badly burned and died three days later. Gas was unknown in the District previously and was not found by the fireman shortly after the accident. [Information originally supplied by Joy McCann - spelling Nicodemus Zidrauckas] |
| 1922 | October | 10 | 1.20pm, 8th hour | Neilsland | Lanark | Jn. Watson, Ltd. | Samuel | Baird | 21 | Screening plant engineman | On Surface – By Machinery – He had been oiling a bearing when his clothing was caught by a driving chain and sprocket wheel. He was whirled round the shafting and killed instantaneously. Prior to the accident part of the fencing of the wheel and chain had been removed, presumably to adjust the chain, and had not been replaced. Newspaper report - Hamilton pages |
| 1922 | October | 10 | 8.30pm, 6th hour | Roslin | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd. | Archibald | Barr | 46 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was filling loose dirt from a shot when a fall of half a ton from the side killed him, and broke a leg of his companion. This side had been specially examined 15 minutes before by the fireman because it required to be removed to straighten the stone mine that was being driven. It was then presumed that it would require a shot to get it down. [Full name is Archibald Campbell Barr] |
| 1922 | October | 14 | John Graham - see 23 September | ||||||||
| 1922 | October | 14 | 9am, 3rd hour | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co., Ltd | Edward | Gunn | 26 | Drawer | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – A large stone fell off the face of the brushing in a newly brushed roadhead, and, in falling, struck Gunn (who had just completed filling a hutch with coal) on the back of the head and fractured his skull. He died half-an-hour later. |
| 1922 | October | 14 | 1pm, 6th hour | South Kenmuir | Lanark | J. Dunn & Stephen Ltd. | Thomas | Ostrowski | 45 | Miner | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – Hewas going up a main cousie brae on his way to work at the same time as a rake was arriving at the brae head from a branch cousie. A tub became detached from this rake and ran down the main cousie. Deceased was caught by the runaway, and although the injuries inflicted appeared to be slight he died about two hours later. The necessary signals for men to travel on the cousie had been given, but it is probable the stop blocks at the brae head were not closed |
| 1922 | October | 15 | 9am, 2nd hour | Rosehall, No 13 | Lanark | Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | George | Mayberry | 36 | Roadsman | Sundries – Deceased whilst working underground suffered slight injury from a nail in a piece of timber. He continued at work for some time, but blood poisoning supervened and death ensued a month later. The accident was mentioned to a fireman, but no first aid was rendered. Had this been done the accident might not have had a fatal result. |
| 1922 | October | 20 | 11.30am, 5th hour | Burnbank | Ayr | Burnbank & Grougar Coal Co., Ltd. | James | King | 38 | Bottomer | Falling from part way down – He pushed a loaded hutch into the shaft at a mid-inset, apparently under the impression that the cage was opposite. The hutch fell down the shaft a distance of about 70ft taking deceased with it. He had signalled the cage away a few minutes before the accident occurred. |
| 1922 | October | 20 | 10.15pm, 1st hour | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co., Ltd | Thomas | Wilson | 60 | Bottomer | Falling from part way down – He was unloading long props from the cage at a mid-shaft inset. To facilitate the removal of props he had the cage raised about 4 ft above the inset level. As he was removing the last prop he slipped, overbalanced and fell past the side of the cage into the shaft. He fell a distance of 189ft and was instantly killed. The props could have been safely removed without raising the cage above the level of the inset. |
| 1922 | October | 24 | 2.30am, 5th hour | Shotts (Calderhead No 4) | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd | James | Swan | 47 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was preparing to put timber in between timbers that showed signs of weight, when further weight came on, snapped the bars, buried him in debris, and forced his face into the mud of the road. Death was due to suffocation. |
| 1922 | October | 25 | 7.30pm, 6th hour | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd | James | Gardiner | 36 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Having treed up the” falling “or dirt band between the coal and the roof proper, he was working at the coal face when the piece of coal he was taking down rolled over, knocked out a tree and dislodged a large piece of the dirt band and roof which crushed him against the coal face. He sustained a fractured pelvis and died three days later. |
| 1922 | October | 26 | Alexander Kinsman - see 25 August | ||||||||
| 1922 | October | 26 | 4.45am, 6th hour | Polmaise 1/2 | Stirling | Archd. Russell, Ltd. | William | Aitken | 29 | Brusher | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was crawling into the face to put up a building when he was killed by a fall of half-a-ton of fakes from between a joint and a weight break. The place had been inspected within a few minutes by the fireman, brushing contractor and deceased himself. A slight roof weight was the cause of the fall. Two props were swung out. |
| 1922 | October | 26 | 12.45pm, 6th hour | Dalkeith | Edinburgh | A.G. Moore & Co. | Peter | Murray | 36 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was about to set a prop to an overhanging length of mid stone when 19 ft. of it fell, swinging out five supporting props. He was pinned down by a large piece across the lower part of the body and sustained internal injuries from which he died next day. The mid stone was probably broken by a shot in the bottom coal fired a few minutes before. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | October | 27 | 12.30am, 2nd hour | Milnwood | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co., Ltd. | Frank | McArdle | 29 | Coal cutting machineman | Electricity – Described on page 21 |
| 1922 | October | 28 | 12.45pm, 6th hour | Herbertshire | Stirling | R. Addie & Sons' Collieries, Ltd. | James | McIntosh | 25 | Pithead worker | Sundries – Two empty tubs laden with 75 boards 12 ft. long on the top of them were being pulled up a steep incline. Mcintosh was walking alongside when they fell over on him and crushed him internally. He died five days later. He ought not to have been walking beside this top heavy load. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | October | 29 | Frank Love - see entry under March 15 | ||||||||
| 1922 | October | 30 | Bothwell Castle 3/4 | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | Thomas | Johnstone | 23 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was filling coal at the face of a machine run when he was struck by a fall of roof 6 ft. long, 3 ft. broad and 9 in. thick. The fall was due to two invisible slips. One prop and one strap were displaced. The fireman found the place in good order two hours before the accident. At first the accident was not considered serious, but it was subsequently found that the spine had been injured. He died on 18th December. | |
| 1922 | November | 1 | No 3 Pit Burghlee | Robert King | Thorburn | FAI record - NAS & death cert. | |||||
| 1922 | November | 1 | 2.35pm, 2nd hour | Cameron | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co., Ltd. | Henry | Simpson | 21 | Pithead worker | Sundries – A tub of dirt was being transferred from one side of the pit bank to the other via the top deck of the double-decked cage. The tub up-ended on the cage and deceased stepped on the cage in order to right it when the engineman lowered without being signalled. Deceased was found on the cover of the cage 9 ft. from the surface. He sustained a fractured skull, and died 20 minutes later. |
| 1922 | November | 2 | James McIntosh - see 28 October | ||||||||
| 1922 | November | 3 | 3.30pm, 2nd hour | East Roughrigg | Stirling | R. Forrester & Co., Ltd. | Alexander | Walker | 30 | Brusher | Miscellaneous Underground – By Explosives – The fireman had just left him with a detonator attached to a fuse and he was preparing a shot. By some means he caused his whole tin, 5 lbs. of gelignite, to detonate and he was instantly killed. It had been noted by the fireman that some of the cartridges in the canister were frozen and he may have been either making a hole in one or forcing a detonator in. Naked lights were used, and it is also possible he was thawing the explosives in his canister by the naked light lamp. |
| 1922 | November | 4 | 8.40am, 3rd hour | Loanhead (Burghlee) | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd | William | Horsburgh | 18 | Brakesman | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was riding on the back of a haulage carriage and resting his body on the side of the tub when he was crushed between the top the tub and the roof of the incline. He was killed instantly - his neck was broken and several of his ribs fractured. |
| 1922 | November | 7 | Arniston | James Cunningham | Millar | FAI record - NAS & death cert. | |||||
| 1922 | November | 9 | 4.45pm, 5th hour | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Co. | John | Tulloch | 50 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was working at the face preparing to set a prop to support the top coal when a piece 5ft by 3ft 9in fell and struck him on the shoulder. He died the following day. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | November | 10 | 11am, 4th hour | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co., Ltd | Robert | Frame | 45 | Miner | Sundries - He was in the act of taking down coal when a piece of “fallen“ struck him on the right foot, causing a slight wound on the large toe. The injury was not immediately reported and attended to. He died from blood poisoning 10 days later. |
| 1922 | November | 13 | 10.38am, 12th hour | Carberry | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co., Ltd. | Patrick | Hall | 30 | Coal cutting machine gummer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He had been walking up a main haulage dook while the haulage was in motion. Apparently he got on to a loaded tub and was crushed between the roof and the hutch upon which he was riding at the time. He died an hour later in the ambulance. |
| 1922 | November | 14 | 1.15pm, 7th hour | Herbertshire | Stirling | R. Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Alexander | Logie | 21 | Drawer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He had rolled over some of the mid-stone, which, by projecting into the road, prevented the loading. Deceased was beginning to break it up when his head was crushed on it by a fall of a thin slab of roof which had just been exposed by the removal of the mid-stone. Newspaper report - Stirlingshire pages |
| 1922 | November | 16 | George Mayberry - see 15 October | ||||||||
| 1922 | November | 20 | Robert Frame - see 10 November | ||||||||
| 1922 | November | 21 | 11.30am, 5th hour | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Company | Robert | Kerr | 38 | Miner's drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was waiting on the haulage road with his loaded tub when he was struck by a runaway tub. His breast bone and several of his ribs were fractured. He died nine days later. The runaway tub was one being brought out by another drawer; the locker broke and the drawer lost control. The gradient of the road was 1 in 12. |
| 1922 | November | 30 | William Copeland - see entry under 10 March | ||||||||
| 1922 | November | 29 | 1pm, 6th hour | Wellsgreen | Fife | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. | William | Wilson | 17 | Drawer | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was crushed between standing tubs in the lye and the set he was bringing in; there were three tubs in the set. He was so severely injured that he died two days later. |
| 1922 | November | 30 | 3am, 4th hour | Holytown | Lanark | J.Nimmo & Co., Ltd. | James | Langtry | 45 | Machineman | Machinery – Deceased was ratchetting in a coal cutter bar preparatory to recommencing to cut. When the bar was slewed in about half way, he told the machineman to start the machine, and he did so, but seeing something was wrong with his mate he stopped it again. On going to the rear end of the machine he found that deceased had been gripped by the picks in the revolving bar, and was in a mutilated condition. |
| 1922 | December | 1 | 1.45am, 3rd hour | Loanhead (No 4 Incline Burghlee) | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co., Ltd | Benjamin | Nelson | 22 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was lying down getting coal from under overhanging clod properly supported, when a fall of 11cwts killed him. The clod should not have fallen, but it split in two and slipped out from between the supports. |
| 1922 | December | 2 | 8.35am, 3rd hour | Alloa (Whinhall) | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co., Ltd. | David | Hutton | 36 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was removing the last breaker prop before firing a brushing shot when a piece of fakes and coaly blaes 3ft. 9in. by 2ft. 8in.by 4in. fell from the roof and killed him instantly. Clackmannanshire accidents |
| 1922 | December | 5 | 2pm, 7th hour | Dalzell & Broomside | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co., Ltd | John | Marshall | 30 | Repairer | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was about to start a road out of a level and had erected a carrying bar across the entrance supported by a single centre prop. He then removed the centre props from the bars being carried, leaving all the weight on the centre prop. When he attempted to put a side leg under the carrying bar it caused the collapse of the timbering and a fall of five tons of roof, which killed him. The work was not being done in a workmanlike manner. |
| 1922 | December | 7 | 11.45am, 5th hour | Kames Nos 1/2 | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. | Thomas Grieg | Stevenson | 49 | Roadsman | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – Deceased was laying near the face on a haulage road a double line of rails and this necessitated the alteration of the roof supports. While he was so engaged a fall of roof consisting of several tons of coal occurred and killed him instantly. A keen lype and a distinct break almost at right angles to each other, were visible in the roof after the accident. The place was inspected by the fireman about one hour prior to the occurrence, and found in satisfactory order. |
| 1922 | December | 7 | 1.30am, 11th hour | Rosehall, No. 14 | Lanark | R. Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Andrew | Pollock | 34 | Brusher | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – Deceased was in the act of setting a leg to a strap just under the brushing lip when a large stone weighing approximately one ton fell from the brushing and killed him. The strap, legged at one end, was broken by the stone. The place had been inspected by a fireman within the hour and reported safe. Deceased had been at work for ten hours and a half. |
| 1922 | December | 8 | 4.55am, 7th hour | Michael | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co., Ltd | Edward E. | Hall | 48 | Gummer | Machinery – He was sitting at the coal face about 2 yds. behind a disc coal cutter which was cutting uphill on an inclination of 1 in 3, when the machine slipped back a distance of 12 ft., owing to the chain by which the haulage sheave was fixed giving way; he was caught by the revolving disc and killed. Newspaper report - Fife pages |
| 1922 | December | 15 | 7.40am, 2nd hour | Dysart (Frances Pit) | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn Collieries Ltd. | Charles | Philip | 48 | Miner | Falls in Mine (a) Falls of Side – He was holing in the dirt on top of the coal at the roundhead of a longwall place when a large stone fell and swung out the props which were behind him. He was killed instantly. Had a rance been set to the front of the brushing tis accident would probably have been prevented. |
| 1922 | December | 18 | 5.40am, 8th hour | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co., Ltd. | David | Murray | 26 | Machineman | Machinery – He was flitting a coal cutting machine along the face when the spindle of the haulage pulley broke. The pulley struck him on the back of the head, fracturing his skull and killing him instantly. The frame carrying the haulage pulley was of such design as to allow the pulley to be drawn out when the spindle broke. An ordinary 5/8in. diameter bolt was in use as a spindle. Newspaper report - Lothians pages |
| 1922 | December | 18 | Thomas Johnstone - see 30 October | ||||||||
| 1922 | December | 20 | 1pm, 7th hour | Raploch No 1 | Lanark | Raploch Coal Co., Ltd. | Thomas | McCutcheon | 39 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was getting coal at a longwall machine cut face when the roof fell over an area is 15ft long parallel to the face by 3 1/2 ft. wide to a height of 1 1/2 ft. The fall came away from a glassy lype exposed by deceased in the removal of the coal; several props were reeled out. The place had been examined by the fireman about one hour previously and passed as safe. The accident would probably have been prevented by the use of steelstraps. The face is in faulty ground and had been standing some days. Newspaper report - Dalserf pages |
| 1922 | December | 20 | .15pm, 5th hour | Lochhead (Victoria Pit) | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co., Ltd. | Alexander | Fairfull | 58 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He had run a loaded hutch from the face to the edge of a small fall which had taken place on the east side level and was filling the fallen coal into an empty hutch he had brought from the top of the haulage brae when a second fall occurred, a piece of coal weighing three tons knocking him against the hutch he was filling. His ribs were fractured and pressed on to the heart causing death. |
| 1922 | December | 20 | 8.40am, 2nd hour | Deans, No 5 (Oil Shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co., Ltd. | William | Wilson | 49 | Fireman |
Explosions of Firedamp – described on pages 14 and 15 (to
be added) Newspaper report - Lothians pages NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: John McConachie, mine roadsman, 2 South Street, Livingston Station and William Wilson, mine fireman, 9 Dean Street, Livingston Station, both died on 20 December 1922 in No. 5 Shale Mine, Deans, Bathgate Parish, Linlithgowshire, following an explosion of inflammable gas |
| John | Maconochie | 40 | Head roadsman | ||||||||
| 1922 | December | 22 | 10.30am, 4th hour | Viewpark | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries, Ltd. | Robert | Morrison | 63 | Miner | Falls in Mine (b) Falls of Roof – He was working at the coal face when a stone 14 ft by 3 ft. by 10 in. fell from the roof and killed him outright The stone thinned to a fine edge at one side and broke away from a slip or break at the other side. Two props were displaced by the fall. The place was examined by the fireman four and a half hours before the accident and found in satisfactory order. |
| 1922 | December | 25 | 12.15am, 3rd hour | Letham | Stirling | Carron Company | Alexander | Hogg | 34 | Miner | Miscellaneous Underground – By Explosives – Deceased and another man were each lighting two shots at one time; the latter got his two lit before the former and they had to retire. As soon as the two shots exploded deceased returned to light his; just as he reached the face one shot, the fuse of which he had attempted to light, exploded and injured him so severely about the chest that he died the following morning. |
| 1922 | December | 27 | 4am, 5th hour | Earnock | Lanark | Jn. Watson Ltd. | William | Hamilton | 17 | Pony driver | Haulage Accidents (b) Run over or crushed by trams or tubs – He was walking behind a loaded tub which was being hauled outbye by a small pony. The pony stopped at a low and narrow part of the roadway, and deceased, apparently thinking some obstruction had got on to the rails, passed along the side of the tub and looked round the front end. He was about to withdraw, when the pony moved forward and jammed his head between the corner of the tub and a prop. He sustained a compound fracture of the skull which caused death four hours later. |
| 1922 | December | 29 | 12.5pm, 6th hour | Pumpherston, No. 5 (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Pumpherston Oil Co., Ltd. | Henry | Atkinson | 69 | Miner | Sundries - He was in the act of taking down coal when a piece of “fallen“ struck him on the right foot, causing a slight wound on the large toe. The injury was not immediately reported and attended to. He died from blood poisoning 10 days later. Sundries - He was approaching the face in a steep place with a charge of gunpowder to charge a shot hole which he had drilled when some shale tipped from the waste above him and knocked out two long props, one of which may have struck him and knocked him down or caused him to fall. He was found dead by his son, the two props lying across his legs. His skull had been fractured by the fall and death was instantaneous. |
| The following deaths of men employed in the mining industry may be as the result of work accidents, but further research is required to confirm this | ||||||
| 1922 | October | 22 | Glasgow area | Thomas | Ostrowski | Septicaemia after injury to thumb |