Year |
Month | Day | Colliery | District | First Name | Surname | Age | Occupation | Cause |
Information on site
or Source |
1944 |
January |
18 | Bothwell Castle Colliery | Lanarkshire |
Joseph | Taggart |
34 | Coal pit brusher |
Struck by fall of stone from roof |
|
1944 |
January | 26 | Thankerton | Lanarkshire | Joseph | Green | | colliery oncost worker | Quantity of material fell from the roof upon him |
NAS FAI "Joseph
Green, colliery on-cost worker, 6 Sunnyside Avenue, Holytown,
Lanarkshire, died on 26 January 1944 at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow,
from injuries sustained on 25 January 1944 in No. 6 Pit of Thankerton
Colliery, Holytown, when a quantity of material fell from the roof upon
him" |
1944 |
February | 4 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | James Maxwell | McFarlane | | colliery lamp cabin attendant | Burning injuries to right hand and arm |
NAS FAI |
1944 |
February | 16 | Valleyfield Colliery | Fife | James | Williamson | | coal miner | Suffocated by fall of coal |
Newspaper report -
Fife pages |
1944 |
March | 3 | Whitrigg | Lothian | Patrick Downs | Graham | | pithead worker | Struck by revolving shaft |
|
1944 |
March | 4 | Calderhead | Lanarkshire | William | Duffy | 49 | Coal miner (stripper) | Fall of coal from the roof. |
Midlothian
Advertiser 10 March 1944 |
1944 |
March | 6 | Aitken | Fife | John | McDonough | | coal miner |
Natural causes |
Newspaper report -
Beath pages |
1944 |
March |
12 | Kames Colliery |
Ayrshire | William Connal |
Muncie | 59 |
colliery fireman | Fractured
spine |
Muirkirk
memorial & death cert |
1944 |
March |
16 | Bedlay Colliery |
Lanarkshire | Rhoderick |
Preston | 60 |
Brusher | |
Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
1944 |
April |
12 | Blantyre Colliery |
Lanarkshire | Alexander |
Paterson | 58 |
colliery machineman | Buried by
a fall of stone and dirt from roof |
|
1944 |
April | 13 | Thankerton | Lanarkshire | John | Gallacher | | miner | Fall of stone |
NAS FAI "John
Gallacher, miner, 109 Main Street, Holytown, Lanarkshire, died on 13
April 1944 at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, from injuries sustained on
the same day in Docherty Mine Section of the Virgin Coal Seam of No. 1
Pit, Tankerton Colliery, Holytown, Lanarkshire, when a stone fell from
the roof upon him " |
1944 |
April | 13 | Harburn Limestone Pit | Lothian | William | Davidson | | Miner | Fall of roof |
|
Thomas | Ferrier | | Miner |
1944 |
April | 15 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | Thomas Murdoch | Taylor | 59 | Oncost worker | Crushed by hutches |
NAS FAI & headstone |
1944 |
April | 18 | No 3 Burghlee | Lothian | John | Knox | 22 | Coal miner | Fall of coal |
|
1944 |
April | 24 | Roslin Colliery | Lothian | Alexander Laurie | Hope | 23 | Coal miner | Fall of stone from roof |
|
1944 |
April | 25 | Muircockhall | Fife | James Meiklejohn | Anderson | | coal miner | Fell down shaft |
NAS FAI |
1944 |
May |
1 | Cowdenbeath Colliery |
Fife | William |
Archibald | 70 |
miner | natural causes |
Newspaper report -
Beath pages |
1944 |
May | 5 | Westwood Shale pit | Lothian | John | Murdoch | | Shale miner | Fall of blaes from roof |
NAS: Fatal
Accident Inquiry: John Murdoch shale miner, 59 Oakbank, Mid Calder, died
on 5 May 1944 in Westwood Shale Pit, Blackburn, when blaes fell from the
roof on him |
1944 |
May |
11 | Cadzow |
Lanarkshire | John |
Percy | 49 |
Coal pit brusher | Struck by
fall of stone from roof |
|
1944 |
May |
13 | Woodhall Colliery |
Lanarkshire | Samuel |
Wilson | 67 |
General labourer | Natural
causes |
NAS FAI & death
cert. |
1944 |
May | 15 | Loganlea | Lothian | John Patrick | McCairn | 64 | Coal miner | Crushed between derailed hutch and side of road |
|
1944 |
May | 16 | Unknown (Douglas Water) | | John | Nelson | 54 | colliery machineman | Fall from roof |
FAI record – NAS |
1944 |
May | 17 | Burghlee Colliery | Lothian | William | Cook | 33 | Coal cutting machineman | Crushed by fall of coal |
|
1944 |
May | 19 | Bedlay Colliery | | Henry Turnbull | Dunn | 39 | coal stripper | Fall of stone |
|
1944 |
May | 21 | Roslin Colliery | Lothian | John Lamont | McDonald | 45 | Underground fireman | Died of burns sustained c20 May |
|
1944 |
May |
23 | Kinglassie Colliery |
Fife | Alexander |
Doig | 41 |
coal miner | Natural causes |
NAS FAI & death cert. |
1944 |
May | 25 | Roslin Colliery | Lothian | William John | Lang | 56 | Coal miner | Died of burns sustained c20 May |
|
1944 |
June | 12 | Mid Breich | Lothian | John | Brogan | | Shale miner | Firedamp explosion |
NAS: Fatal
Accident Inquiry: John Brogan, shale miner, 44 New Breich, Blackburn,
West Lothian, died on 12 June 1944 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh,
from injuries sustained on the same day in Mid Breich Shale Pit,
Blackburn, when fire-damp ignited in his working place |
1944 |
June |
14 | Wellesley Colliery |
Fife | John Walton |
MacKenzie | 61 |
Bricklayer's labourer | Natural
causes |
Newspaper report -
Fife pages |
1944 |
July | 2 | Nellie Colliery | Fife | Robert King | Mackie |
61 | coal miner | Roof fall |
Newspaper report -
Auchterderran pages |
1944 |
July |
4 | Ross Colliery | Lanarkshire |
Charles | Fraser |
42 | colliery repairer |
Struck by fall of stone from side of road |
|
1944 |
July | 10 | Bishop No 3 Mine Coatbridge | Lanarkshire | James | Law |
| coal miner(brusher) | Fall of stone from roof |
NAS FAI |
1944 |
July |
26 | Southfield Colliery |
Lanarkshire | William W. |
Muir |
55 | |
Accidentally killed |
Headstone |
1944 |
July | 27 | Greenrigg | Lothian | John Livingstone | McCallum | | Loader shifter | Electrocution |
|
1944 |
August | 8 | Benhar Colliery | Lanarkshire | John Watson | Robertson |
| coalminer (stripper) | Natural causes - heart disease |
NAS FAI "John
Watson Robertson, coalminer (stripper), 5 Minthill Place, Eastfield,
Harthill, Lanarkshire, died on 8 August 1944 from heart disease in
Benhar Colliery, Harthill, Lanarkshire" |
1944 |
August | 17 | Greenrigg | Lothian | James | Pollock | | Surface worker | Struck by a bogey |
|
1944 |
September | 5 | Polkemmet | Lothian | David Hood | Crichton | | Miner | Fall of roof |
|
1944 |
September | 14 | Easton | Lothian | Hugh | McKechnie | | Coal miner | Hit by piece of coal |
|
1944 |
October | 13 | Frances Colliery | Fife | William R. | Grieve | 18 | Trainee | Fell down shaft |
Newspaper report -
Fife pages |
1944
| October
| 15
| NK (Shotts area)
| Lanarkshire
| John
| Connelly
| 49
| coal miner
| Fall of stone
| With thanks to Victoria Mulholland for this information
|
1944
| October
| 20 |
Bessie Glen
Colliery |
Clackmannan |
Robert | Crawford |
40 |
|
Result of accident |
Headstone |
1944 |
October |
25 |
NK (Roslin area) |
Lothian |
James | Hutchison |
46 |
coal miner |
Injury to chest and
fractured pelvis |
|
1944 |
October | 29 | Carriden | Lothian | James | Hammond | | Coal miner | Hit by material after shot firing |
|
1944 |
October | 31 | Easthouses | Lothian | George Walker | Blyth | 53 | Pithead worker | Crushed by hutches |
|
1944 |
November | 6 | Polkemmet | Lothian | Andrew McDonald | Simpson | | Coal miner | Fall of stone from roof |
|
1944 |
November | 7 | Easton | Lothian | John Slater | Maxwell | | Coal miner | Struck by steel prop |
|
1944 |
November | 23 | Easthouses | Lothian | John | Fairgrieve | 31 | Coal crusher attendant | Caught in coalcutting machine |
|
1944 |
November | 25 | Easthouses | Lothian | James | Galloway | 58 | Colliery engineman | Heart failure after being injured by being struck by carriage |
|
1944 |
December | 2 | Woomet | Lothian | George Thomson | Smith | 38 | Brusher | Fall of stone from roof (died of fractured spine 11 months after accident) |
|
1944 |
December |
4 | NK - Buckhaven area |
Fife | David |
Watters | 49 |
Coal miner | Tetanus after pit
accident | NAS FAI &
death cert. |
1944 |
December | 29 | Foulshiels | Lothian | Joseph Davidson | Greig | | Coal miner | Fall of roof |
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