Year | Month | Day | Colliery | District | First Name | Surname | Age | Occupation | Cause | Information on site or Source |
1945 | January | 12 | Valleyfield Colliery | Fife | Samuel | McGuire | colliery under-manager | Knocked down by runaway hutch | NAS FAI | |
1945 | January | 31 | Newbattle | Lothian | Joseph | Clelland | 40 | Coal miner | Injuries after being crushed by block of coal | |
1945 | February | 15 | Dumbreck | Stirlingshire | Matthew | Martin | 14 | Sampler | Crushed by waggons | Newspaper report - Stirlingshire |
1945 | February | 20 | Lingerwood | Lothian | William Sandieman | Melville | 63 | Brusher | Crushed by hutches | |
1945 | February | 28 | Hamilton Palace | Lanarkshire | John Reid | Hunter | 30 | colliery surfaceman | Caught in a revolving shaft | |
1945 | March | 10 | Knockshinnock | Ayrshire | James Paton | Dickson | 46 | Coal miner | Struck by prop | |
1945 | March | 25 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | Robert | Cunning | coal miner | NK | NAS FAI | |
1945 | April | 14 | Polkemmet | Lothian | John | Richmond | 66 | Colliery motorman | Fall of roof | Midlothian Advertiser 20 April 1945 |
1945 | April | 26 | Lady Victoria | Lothian | Daniel | Slater | 38 | mining contractor | Explosion |
Glasgow Herald 27 April 1945
p5 column 3 With thanks to Helen Ross for updating the names for us |
John | Steel | 43 | NK | |||||||
John | Hunter | 39 | NK | |||||||
James | Rutherford | 38 | NK | |||||||
1945 | May | 27 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | James Erskine | O'Hare | coal cutting machineman | Injuries sustained in roof fall on 27 May 1940 | NAS FAI | |
1945 | June | 17 | Climpy | Lanarkshire | Thomas | Nelson | 54 | Brusher | NK | Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
1945 | June | 18 | Bothwell Castle | Lanarkshire | William | Kyle | 44 | Miner | Fall of stone | Newspaper report - Bothwell pages |
Edward | Halliday | 31 | Miner | |||||||
1945 | June | 21 | Killochan Colliery | Ayrshire | Andrew | Robertson | 51 | Underground fireman | Fall of stone | |
1945 | June | 23 | Blantyre | Lanarkshire | James | Connor | 36 | Pithead worker | Fell down pit | Newspaper report - Blantyre pages |
1945 | June | 25 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | William | McCann | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI | |
1945 | June | 26 | Lingerwood | Lothian | James | Kennedy (formerly Wood) | 25 | Haulage worker | Run over by hutch | |
1945 | June | 29 | Manor Powis | Stirlingshire | Peter Donald | Stark | 39 | mining contractor | Fall of roof | Glasgow Herald 30 June 1945 |
1945 | July | 11 | Comrie Colliery | Fife | Robert | Muirhead | coal miner | Fall of roof | NAS FAI | |
1945 | July | 27 | Bothwell Castle | Lanarkshire | James | Graham | Fall from roof | Glasgow Herald 28 July 1945 | ||
1945 | July | 30 | NK (resident of Musselburgh) | Lothian | John Aitken | Clark | 58 | Colliery fireman | Knocked down by runaway tub | |
1945 | August | 2 | NK – Musselburgh area | Lothian | Robert | Penman | 56 | coal miner | Struck and pinned by fall from roof | FAI and DC |
1945 | September | 4 | Bankend Colliery, Coalburn | Lanarkshire | James | Tait | 45 | Colliery surface worker | Caught in haulage machinery | With thanks to Marion Turley for providing this information |
1945 | September | 11 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | Charles | Hancock | 50 | Coal miner | Multiple fractures | Newspaper report - Fife pages |
1945 | September | 12 | Bessie Glen Colliery | Clackmannan | Robert | Sharp | 60 | Accidentally killed | Headstone | |
1945 | September | 15 | Polkemmet | Lothian | David Allan | Swan | 14 | Pithead worker | Found dead on bing but died of natural causes | |
1945 | September | 21 | Michael Colliery | Fife | William | Henry | 41 | Coal miner | Skull fractured by debris after shot firing | Newspaper report - Fife pages |
1945 | October | 6 | Auchlochan | Lanarkshire | James | Johnstone | 50 | underground repairer | Fall of roof | Newspaper report - Lanarkshire pages |
1945 | October | 9 | Stane | Lanarkshire | John | McDowell | 65 | Coal miner | NK | Newspaper report - Shotts pages |
1945 | October | 11 | Lindsay Colliery | Fife | William | Ford | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1945 | October | 15 | Woolmet | Lothian | Robert Alexander | Crawford | 66 | Coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1945 | October | 21 | Loganlea | Lothian | William | Murray | 21 | Coal miner | Fall of roof | |
1945 | November | 1 | Polkemmet | Lothian | Alexander | Forrest | Underground worker | Crushed by cage | ||
1945 | November | 5 | NK – Deantown area | Inveresk | John | Duncan | 41 | coal miner | Struck by material from delayed shot | FAI and DC |
1945 | November | 6 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | Thomas | Beveridge | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1945 | November | 7 | NK - Kirkcaldy area | Fife | John | Watson | 51 | Pithead worker | Multiple fractures | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1945 | November | 12 | Riddochhill | Lothian | Thomas | Noon | Surface worker | Crushed by bogey | ||
1945 | November | 17 | Riddochhill | Lothian | James Bulloch | McDonald | Steel prop drawer | Fall of roof | ||
1945 | November | 17 | Burghlee Colliery | Lothian | William | Welsh | 57 | colliery pumpsman | Cardiac failure | |
1945 | November | 18 | No 11 Lumphinnans | Fife | William Bateman | Mitchell | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1945 | November | 20 | Kippsbyre Mine | Lanarkshire | William Walker | Kinnaird | coal miner | Caught by the revolving cutting bar of a coal cutting machine | NAS FAI "William Walker Kinnard, coal miner, 64 Wester Mavisbank Avenue, Airdrie, died on 20 November 1945 in Kippsbyre (Kiltongue) Mine, Glenmavis, Lanarkshire, when he was caught by the revolving cutting bar of a coal cutting machine " | |
1945 | November | 30 | Dean Colliery | Fife | James | Mollies or Nellies | Struck by runaway hutch | NAS FAI | ||
James | Main | |||||||||
1945 | December | 4 | Stone Mine, Lady Victoria Pit | Newtongrange | Peter | Powell | 38 | stone miner | multiple severe injuries | FAI and DC |
1945 | December | 15 | Lindsay Colliery | Fife | James Erskine | Ferguson | coal miner | Fall of coal and stone | NAS FAI | |
1945 | December | 24 | Shale Mine, Glendevon Winchburgh | Lothian | George Scott | Hogg | 32 | shale miner | Injuries received by quantity of material falling upon him | With thanks to Moira Meek (Hogg) for providing this information |
1946 | January | 11 | Polkemmet | Lothian | Robert | Robertson | coal miner | Fell down shaft | ||
1946 | January | 14 | Killochan Colliery | Ayrshire | Andrew Duff | Scott | 19 | Fall of stone | ||
1946 | January | 22 | Minto Colliery | Fife | James | Wright | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI | |
1946 | January | 25 | Burghlee Colliery | Lothian | Alexander | Wilson | 54 | coal miner | Struck by material from delayed shot | FAI and DC |
1946 | February | 22 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | Thomas | Cherrie | coal miner | Roof fall | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1946 | March | 1 | Easter Gartshore | Dunbartonshire | Neil | Duffy | Compound fracture of both bones of left leg, (mining accident), arterial hemorage, traumatic shock | With thanks to Jane Christie for providing this information. | ||
1946 | March | 4 | Thankerton | Lanarkshire | Donald | Crossan | haulage motorman | Jacket caught by revolving intermediate driving shaft | NAS FAI "Donald Crossan, haulage motorman, 282 O' Wood Avenue, Holytown, Lanarkshire, died on 4 March 1946 at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, from injuries sustained on the same day in No. 1 Pit, Thankerton Colliery, Holytown, Lanarkshire, when his jacket was caught by the revolving intermediate driving shaft" Motherwell Times 15 March 1946, page 7, col 3 | |
1946 | March | 6 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | John | Reid | coal miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1946 | March | 15 | Comrie Colliery | Fife | Robert Simpson | Smith | conveyor belt attendant | Crushed between the conveyor belt and conveyor drum | NAS FAI | |
1946 | March | 16 | NK Newtongrange area | Lothian | William | Neilson | 44 | coal miner | Fall of coal | |
1946 | March | 16 | NK Gorebridge area | Lothian | Michael | Donlevy | 31 | coal miner | Fall of coal | |
1946 | March | 21 | Aitken | Fife | Moris | Stewart | coal miner | Fall of coal | NAS FAI | |
1946 | April | 9 | Aitken | Fife | James | Simpson | NK | Crushed between the coal face and a coal hutch when a race of hutches ran away | NAS FAI | |
1946 | April | 13 | Killochan Colliery | Ayrshire | Samuel | Shearer | 32 | Miner | Knocked down by runaway hutches | |
1946 | April | 15 | Greenrigg | Lanarkshire | George | Sandilands | Shunter | NK | ||
1946 | April | 18 | Auchincruive | Ayrshire | Alexander | Muir | 31 | Caught in conveyor | ||
1946 | May | 10 | Southfield | Lanarkshire | Adam | Hamilton | 22 | Miner | Crushed by hutch | |
1946 | May | 27 | Benhar Colliery | Lanarkshire | John | Muir | colliery brusher | Struck by a rake of eight empty runaway hutches | NAS FAI "John Muir, colliery brusher, 8 Millar Place, Harthill, Lanarkshire, died on 31 May 1946 at 78 West Main Street, Harthill from injuries sustained on 27 May 1946 at Benhar Colliery, Harthill, when he was struck by a rake of eight empty runaway hutches " | |
1946 | May | 27 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | George Duncan | Lawson | coal miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1946 | June | 10 | NK (Stirling area) | Stirlingshire | John | McBryde or Rarity | 33 | Briquette worker | Crushed between waggons | Death cert only |
1946 | June | 13 | Mary Colliery | Fife | Hector | McDonald | coal miner | Buried by fall from roof | NAS FAI | |
1946 | June | 14 | Harwood | Lothian | James McGowan | Blackley | 43 | Coal miner | Natural causes | |
1946 | June | 26 | Lingerwood | Lothian | Thomas Louden | Peattie | 40 | Haulageman | injuries to skull | |
1946 | June | 26 | Dora Colliery | Fife | John | Fraser | 49 | Coal miner | Natural causes | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1946 | July | 25 | Woolmet | Lothian | Thomas | Brown | 55 | Oncost worker | Fall of stone from roof | |
1946 | August | 12 | NK - Buckhaven area | Fife | John Richard | Wright | 42 | Coal miner | Multiple fractures | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1946 | August | 13 | Douglas Colliery | Lanarkshire | Isaac | Wood | 70 | colliery surfaceman | Natural causes | FAI record – NAS |
1946 | August | 18 | Riddochhill | Lothian | John | Johnston | Brusher | Struck by material from shot | ||
1946 | September | 4 | Blantyre Colliery | Lanarkshire | Samuel | Anderson | Fall of roof | With thanks to Mandy Lockley for this information | ||
1946 | September | 14 | Newcraighall | Lothian | James | Anderson | 34 | Coal miner | Fall of coal from the roof. | |
1946 | September | 16 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | George | Morrice | coal miner | Crushed between an empty coal hutch and the frame of a trap door in the man haulage dook | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1946 | September | 25 | Ramsay | Lothian | Joseph | McCulloch | 40 | Pithead worker | Struck by rake of hutches | |
1946 | October | 8 | NK (lived at Stoneyburn) | Lothian | George | Russell | 27 | Colliery conveyor shifter | Pit accident (details not known) | |
1946 | October | 15 | Newbigging Limestone Mine | Fife | Henry | Wyse | 46 | Limestone miner | Fractured skull | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1946 | October | 24 | Glen Mine | Lanarkshire | Hector | Fraser | oncost man | Caught and jammed against the building by a runaway rake of empty hutches | NAS FAI "Hector Fraser, coal miner (on-cost man), 94 Muirpark Rows, Viewpark, Lanarkshire, died on 24 October 1946 in No. 12 Lye of the Main Drumgray Haulage Road, at Glen Mine, Shawhead, Lanarkshire, when he was caught and jammed against the building by a runaway rake of empty hutches" | |
1946 | October | 24 | Wellsgreen Colliery | Fife | Daniel Archer | Hoggan | 60 | Coal miner | Multiple rib fractures | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1946 | November | 11 | Whitehill | Lothian | William | Hunter | 22 | Coal miner (trainee) | Struck by steel girder | |
1946 | November | 19 | NK (lived at Longridge) | Lothian | James | Girdwood | 52 | Oncost worker | Fall of stone | |
1946 | November | 26 | Polmaise Colliery | Stirlingshire | James Campbell | Muir | 54 | colliery repairer | Arm crushed between rollers of conveyor belt (Fallin memorial list) | |
1946 | December | 16 | Benhar | Lanarkshire | Patrick | Cosgrove | coal cutting machinist | Accident with coal cutting machine | With thanks to Owen Martin for providing this information Newspaper report - Shotts pages | |
1946 | December | 19 | Aitken | Fife | David Hedley | Owen | coal miner | Crushed between fall of coal and steel girder | NAS FAI | |
1946 | December | 22 | Easton | Lothian | Thomas | O'Driscoll | Brusher | Fall of stone from roof | ||
Peter O'Neill | Bryce | Brusher | ||||||||
1946 | December | 25 | Waggon Repair Shop of Wemyss Coal Co. | Fife | Frank | Funkie | 63 | Colliery engineer | Fractures and internal injuries | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1946 | December | 31 | NK - Dalkeith area | Lothian | Murdoch | McKenzie | 32 | coal miner | Struck by material from shot | |
1947 | January | 6 | Hopetoun No. 35 Mine | Lothian | James | Fairley | Shale miner | Fell from cage | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: James Fairley, shale miner, East Burnside, Broxburn, died on 6 January 1947 at Hopetoun No. 35 Mine, Trinlaymire, Threemiletown, by Linlithgow, when he fell from the cage while it was descending the shaft | |
1947 | January | 10 | Burngrange | Midlothian | John | McGarty | 30 | Shale miner | Sudden death from explosion (fractured skull) | Newspaper report - Burngrange page |
William Findlay | Ritchie | 38 | Shale miner | Carbon monoxide poisoning – pit explosion | ||||||
Samuel Dargavel | Pake | 24 | Shale miner | |||||||
David | Muir | 25 | Shale miner | |||||||
James | McCauley | 59 | Shale miner | |||||||
John Sommerville | Lightbody | 41 | Shale miner | |||||||
Thomas Dempster | Heggie | 26 | Shale miner | |||||||
William | Greenock | 50 | Shale miner | |||||||
Anthony | Gaughan | 45 | Shale miner | |||||||
William Gray | Findlay (formerly Shields) | 56 | Shale miner | |||||||
John | Fairley | 20 | Shale miner | |||||||
George | Easton | 53 | Shale miner | |||||||
Henry Law | Cowie | 36 | Shale miner | |||||||
William | Carroll | 31 | Shale miner | |||||||
David | Carroll | 46 | Shale miner | |||||||
1947 | January | 10 | Comrie | Fife | Charles | Gourlay | 26 | Shunter | Left leg crushed between a stationary and a moving mine car | NAS FAI |
1947 | January | 19 | Duntilland | Lanarkshire | William | McKee | 37 | Fall of stone | NAS FAI "William Wade McKee, coal miner, 12 Kirk View Avenue, Salsburgh, Lanarkshire, died on 19 January 1947 in No. 7 Section, Lower Drumgray Seam, at Duntilland Mine, Salsburgh, Lanarkshire, when he was pinned to the pavement by a fall of a stone from the roof " | |
1947 | January | 22 | Blairhall | Fife | Thomas | Neilson | coal miner | Fall of coal | NAS FAI | |
1947 | January | 28 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | David Cowie Davidson | McDonald | coal miner | Pinned to the ground by a fall of stone from the roof | NAS FAI & headstone | |
1947 | January | 31 | Bowhill Colliery | Fife | George Williamson | Duncan | colliery packer | Natural causes (rupture of congenital aneurism of anterior communicating cerebral artery) | NAS FAI | |
1947 | February | 6 | Nellie Colliery | Fife | Alexander Robertson | Fraser | road repairer | Crushed by steel girder | NAS FAI | |
1947 | February | 6 | Michael Colliery | Fife | Henry | Stewart | 67 | Colliery oncost worker | Crushed by loaded hutch | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | February | 8 | Calderhead Colliery | Lanarkshire | Duncan | Crawford | 67 | Headstone | ||
1947 | February | 10 | Polkemmet | Lothian | William | Savage | pit bottom worker | Natural causes | ||
1947 | March | 12 | Philpstoun | Lothian | Thomas Watson | Gray | colliery roadsman | Fall of blaes | ||
1947 | March | 13 | Polkemmet | Lothian | William | Irvine | colliery shaftsman | Struck by piece of ice falling down shaft | ||
1947 | April | 2 | Loganlea | Lothian | Thomas Roland | Jenman | 37 | Coal mining machineman | Fall of sandstone from roof | Midlothian Advertiser 4 April 1947 |
1947 | April | 6 | Millhall Colliery | Stirlingshire | Peter Nelson | McCann | 41 | coal miner | NK - dislocated cervical vertebrae | Death cert only |
1947 | April | 7 | Woolmet Colliery | Lothian | William | Stewart | 34 | Accidentally killed | Headstone | |
1947 | April | 8 | Frances Colliery | Fife | John Farquhar | Lawson | 26 | Coal miner machineman | Multiple injuries | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | April | 18 | Alice Pit, Fordell | Fife | William | Hay | 41 | Miner | Roof collapsed | NAS FAI |
Alexander | Stenhouse | 46 | Miner | |||||||
1947 | April | 20 | Mary Colliery | Fife | Andrew Brown Kemp | Sharp | coal miner | Struck by a roll of conveyor belt which had fallen from a bogey | NAS FAI | |
1947 | April | 23 | Minto | Fife | John | Blamey | 40 | NK | Fall of stone from roof | NAS FAI (also gravestone) |
1947 | May | 23 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | James Geddes | Hynd | 51 | colliery surface worker | Crushed by top of descending cage | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | May | 29 | No. 6 Shale Mine, Glendevon, Winchburgh | Lothian | William | Gow | Shale miner | Fall of shale | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: William Gow, shale miner, 107 Main Street, Winchburgh, died on 29 May 1947 at No. 6 Shale Mine, Glendevon, Winchburgh, West Lothian, when a quantity of shale fell upon him | |
1947 | June | 27 | Manor Powis | Stirling | Alexander | McMenemy | 36 | Coal cutting machineman | Crushed by coal cutter going into reverse | |
1947 | June | 30 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | William Logie | Thomson | 49 | Coal miner | Avulsion of left arm | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | July | 5 | Branchal | Lanarkshire | David | Dickson | 45 | Miner | Underground explosion | |
1947 | July | 10 | Polmaise | Stirlingshire | David | Allan | 49 | Miner | Caught in conveyor | |
1947 | July | 15 | Comrie Colliery | Fife | James Alexander | Ferguson | coal miner | Struck on ankle by a piece of coal | NAS FAI | |
1947 | July | 17 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | Jeremiah | Sullivan | 40 | Coal miner | Fall of stone - injuries sustained 1 March | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | July | 17 | Millhall Colliery | Stirlingshire | John | Murphy | 46 | NK - multiple injuries | Death cert only | |
1947 | July | 28 | No 7 Pit, Cowdenbeath | Fife | George | Hogg | 47 | miner | Collapsed | Evening Telegraph, Monday 28 July 1947 |
1947 | August | 15 | Rosie Colliery | Fife | Thomas | Fowler | 44 | coal miner | Multiple fractures | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | August | 15 | Michael Colliery | Fife | James | Bauld | 58 | colliery fireman | Natural causes | Death cert. |
1947 | August | 26 | Boglea | Lanarkshire | Alexander | Brynes | coal miner (hewer) | Natural causes | NAS FAI "Alexander Brynes, coal miner (hewer), 5 Hillview, Greengairs, Lanarkshire, died on 26 August 1947 from cardiac failure, coronary thrombosis due to coronary artery disease at Boglea Mine, Greengairs, Lanarkshire " | |
1947 | September | 12 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | John | Raeburn | 50 | Coal miner | Traumatic asphyxia | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1947 | September | 27 | Valleyfield Colliery | Fife | Joseph | McGlinchey | coal miner | Leg caught in coal cutting machine | NAS FAI | |
1947 | October | 20 | Blackrigg | Lothian | William | Fairley | surface labourer | Fell down shaft | ||
1947 | October | 30 | Valleyfield Colliery | Fife | George | Mitchell | coal miner | Struck by two runaway hutches | NAS FAI | |
1947 | November | 2 | Quarter | Lanarkshire | James | Ritchie | 58 | colliery fireman | Overcome by gas | |
Alexander | Kerr | 67 | rope splicer | |||||||
1947 | November | 4 | Emily Pit | Lothian | Andrew McLaren | Howie | 34 | colliery oversman | Colliery accident | |
1947 | November | 15 | Blairmuckhill | Lanarkshire | Alexander | Cunningham | 39 | Colliery washerman | Fell from dross elevator | NAS FAI "Alexander Cunningham, colliery washer attendant, 55 Edinburgh Road, Harthill, Lanarkshire, died on 15 November 1947 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 14 November 1947 at Blairmuckhill Colliery, Harthill, Lanarkshire, as he was attempting to repair a bucket of the dross elevator when it broke loose and crashed to the ground striking an iron bar in his fall " |
1947 | December | 24 | Lady Victoria Pit | Lothian | Alexander | Morgan | 17 | Oncost worker | Crushed by hutches | |
1947 | December | 30 | Hill Farm | Stirlingshire | William | Skinner | 36 | Miner | Crushed by stone | |
1947 | December | 30 | No 11 Lumphinnans | Fife | William | Drylie | colliery overman | Fall of coal dislodged by shot firing | NAS FAI | |
1948 | January | 9 | Seaforth Pit, New Cumnock | Ayrshire | Edward | Harris | 26 | Miner | Drowned by water from disused working | |
Charles | McAnespie | 26 | Miner | |||||||
1948 | January | 23 | Minto Colliery | Fife | John | Bisset | coal miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1948 | January | 29 | Northfield Colliery | Lanarkshire | John | Britton | 51 | coal miner - stripper | Fall of stone | Headstone, death cert. & RCE |
1948 | February | 15 | Minto Colliery | Fife | James | Young | coal miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1948 | February | 16 | Kinglassie Colliery | Fife | William | Blyth | 64 | Coal miner | Crushed on conveyer - injuries sustained 5 Nov 1947 | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1948 | February | 17 | Boglea | Lanarkshire | George Murray | Devan | miner | Injuries from stone falling upon his legs | NAS FAI "George Murray Devan, miner, 3 Monkland Street, Airdrie, died on 17 February 1948 at Killearn Hospital, Stirlingshire, from injuries sustained in October 1947 at Boglea Mine, Greengairs, Lanarkshire, as he was behind a coal cutting machine when a stone fell upon his legs" | |
1948 | February | 19 | Hamilton Palace Colliery | Lanarkshire | James | Skewies | 62 | underground fireman | Crushing injuries | Death cert |
1948 | February | 20 | NK | Lothian | Thomas Richard | Bent | Coal miner | Crushed by hutch | ||
1948 | March | 20 | Blackrigg | Lanarkshire | Duncan | McGregor | drawer | Fall of sandstone | ||
1948 | March | 24 | Dunrobin Mine, Airdrie | Lanarkshire | John Mark | Armstrong | coal miner | Natural causes | NAS FAI "John Mark Armstrong, coal miner, 21 Springfield Road, Airdrie, died on 24 March 1948 at Browshot Coal Co., Dunrobin Mine, Airdrie, from cardiac failure" | |
1948 | March | 25 | Blackriggs Colliery | Lothian | Duncan | McGregor | 57 | Repairer | Fall of stone | |
1948 | March | 29 | Northfield | Lanarkshire | Alex. | Gordon | 46 | Surface worker | Crushed between buffers | |
1948 | March | 29 | Fauldhead | Dumfries | John | Wightman | 23 | NK | Electrocuted | Newspaper report - Dumfriesshire pages |
1948 | April | 7 | Foulshiels | Lothian | William | Finlay | coal miner | Struck and run over by hutch | ||
1948 | April | 15 | Fordell Colliery | Fife | George Anderson | Denholm | coal miner | Head crushed between two hutches | NAS FAI | |
1948 | April | 21 | Millhall Colliery | Stirlingshire | Charles | Ferguson | 30 | Oncost worker | Electrocution | |
1948 | May | 14 | Blairmuckhill | Lanarkshire | William Simpson | Jones | 57 | Colliery manager | Slipped or fell against rake of hutches | NAS FAI "William Simpson Jones,colliery manager, 31 Edinburgh Road, Harthill, Lanarkshire, died on 14 May 1948 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 13 May 1948 at Blairmuckhill Colliery, Harthill, Lanarkshire, when he slipped or stumbled and fell against a rake of hutches as he was walking on the North Main Coal Haulage Road" |
1948 | May | 18 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | Gustav | Jesske | stripper | Fall of coal | NAS FAI | |
1948 | May | 19 | Blairmuckhill | Lanarkshire | Archibald | Ferguson | Coal miner | Fall of stone from roof | NAS FAI "Archibald Ferguson, coal miner, 172 Mayfield Drive, Armadale, died on 19 May 1948 at Bangour Hospital, Broxburn, from injuries sustained on the same day in No.3 Branch, No. 9 Section, Main Coal Seam, Blairmuckhill Colliery, Harthill, Lanarkshire, when a stone fell from the roof upon him" | |
1948 | June | 7 | Baads Colliery | Lothian | William | Kay | 42 | Drawer | Crushed by hutch | |
1948 | July | 2 | Breich shale pit | Lothian | Joseph | McKelvie (formerly Joseph Clarke) | shale miner | Struck by material projected from a shot | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: Joseph McKelvie (formerly Joseph Clarke), shale miner, 3 New Breich, Blackburn, West Lothian, died on 2 July 1948 at Mid Breich Shale Pit, Blackburn, West Lothian, when he was struck by material projected from a shot | |
1948 | July | 11 | Dumbreck Colliery | Stirlingshire | Walter | Reid | Injured by a fall of stone from the roof | With thanks to Anne Marie McAlister for this information | ||
1948 | July | 30 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | Alexander Small | Fairhurst | woodboy | Caught between a roller and a belt of a coal conveyor | NAS FAI | |
1948 | August | 3 | Wellesley Colliery | Fife | Edward | McLuskie | 21 | coal miner | Train of tubs derailed and crushed him | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1948 | August | 10 | Auchengeich Colliery | Lanarkshire | James Bell | Pate | coal miner | Fractured skull | ||
1948 | August | 17 | Newtongrange | Lothian | Peter | O'Connor | 56 | coal miner | Struck by waggon | Newspaper report - Lothian pages |
1948 | August | 26 | NK Newtongrange area | Lothian | James Fraser | Campbell | 50 | coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1948 | August | 30 | Thornton Mine | Fife | David Laing | Page | 50 | Coal miner | Natural causes | NAS FAI & death cert. |
1948 | September | 2 | Blairhall | Fife | Norman Mustard | Nicol | miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1948 | September | 27 | Lochhead | Fife | David | Paterson | 57 | Under- manager | Gassing accident | Evening Telegraph 18 July 1950 |
James | Penman | 63 | ||||||||
John | Arbuckle | 57 | ||||||||
1948 | October | 8 | Aitken | Fife | Adam Armstrong | Anderson | coal stripper | Fall of stone | ||
1948 | October | 15 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | James | Ferguson | stripper | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1948 | October | 15 | NK (Newtongrange) | Lothian | Franciszek | Rab | 25 | coal miner | Multiple fractures sustained in course of his work | |
1948 | October | 16 | Frances | Fife | James | Smith | stripper | crushed between waggon and brick wall | ||
1948 | November | 5 | Fallin | Stirlingshire | Henry James | Lynch | 70 | Gearhead attendant | Knocked down by rake of full hutches | |
1948 | November | 14 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | Alexander Campbell | McGregor | coal miner | Fell 50 feet after platform on which he was working in the pump shaft collapsed | NAS FAI | |
1948 | November | 17 | NK (Bo'ness area) | Lothian | John | Craig | coal miner | Stone fell upon him | ||
1948 | November | 23 | Priory Colliery | Lanarkshire | John | Hamilton | 56 | Shot-firer | Natural causes | Death cert. |
1948 | November | 24 | Bessie Glen Mine | Clackmannanshire | William Alexander | Whitton | 45 | coal-machineman | Carbon monoxide poisoning | Headstone and death certificate |
1948 | November | 26 | Roslin | Lothian | William Brunton Walker | Linton | 32 | collier | Fractured spine | With thanks to Alex Linton for this information |
1948 | December | 9 | Pirnhall | Stirlingshire | William | Stevenson | 39 | Beltman | Fall of roof | |
1948 | December | 13 | Glencraig Colliery | Fife | Joseph | Docherty | coal miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1948 | December | 24 | Frances Colliery | Fife | Henry | Rowan | 73 | Colliery Transport Supervisor | Compound fracture of right tibia and fibula, simple fracture of left tibia and fibula, shock sustained by being struck and knocked down by a set of runaway full tubs. | With thanks to Sandy Finlay for this information |
1948 | December | 28 | Lady Helen Colliery | Fife | John | Black | fireman | Fall of stone | NAS FAI | |
1949 | January | 6 | NK - Dalkeith area | Lothian | John | Hall | 68 | Coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1949 | January | 11 | Comrie Colliery | Fife | James | McCormack | coal miner | Crushed by conveyor or pan | NAS FAI & headstone, Dundee Courier 17 January 1951 | |
1949 | January | 14 | Meta Colliery | Clackmannan | George | Donald | 32 | Crushed by hutch | ||
1949 | January | 14 | Lady Victoria Colliery | Lothian | James Smith | Reid | 41 | coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1949 | January | 14 | King o'Muirs | Clackmannan | Zigmunt | Horaczko | Miner | Fall of stone | ||
1949 | January | 19 | Netherton | Lanarkshire | John | Gordon | surface worker | Knocked to the ground during a ""flying shunt"" by wagons and one or more of the wagon wheels passed over his left leg | NAS FAI | |
1949 | January | 29 | Woodend | Lothian | George | Lamond | Strapper | Fall of stone | ||
1949 | February | 8 | Douglas Colliery | Lanarkshire | George | Boswell | 21 | drawer | Crushed between a runaway loaded hutch and a steel girder | |
1949 | February | 16 | Calderhead | Lanarkshire | Samuel | Walker | 51 | Coal miner stripper | Fall of rock | |
1949 | March | 20 | Jenny Gray | Fife | George Birrell Gibb | Paterson | coal miner | Fall of coal | NAS FAI | |
1949 | March | 21 | Westwood Shale Pit | Lothian | William | Robertson | 60 | compound fracture of skull | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: William Henry Robertson, shale miner's drawer, 87 Parkhead Crescent, West Calder, died on 21 March 1949 at Westwood Shale Pit, Blackburn, West Lothian | |
1949 | March | 29 | Polkemmet | Lothian | William Blair | Whiteford | fireman | Material fell on him | ||
1949 | April | 14 | Fireclay Pit, Heathfield | Lanarkshire | Edward | Rooney | 49 | Fireclay miner | Fall of stone | NAS FAI & death cert |
1949 | April | 19 | Bedlay Colliery | Lanarkshire | John | Gallagher (AKA Dunn) | coal miner | Fell from cage | ||
1949 | April | 29 | Castlehill Colliery | Lanarkshire | Harry | Hamilton | 53 | coal miner (oncost) | Roof fall | Death notice in Motherwell Times 6 May 1949 & death cert. |
1949 | April | 29 | No. 35 Shale Pit, Threemiletown | Lothian | Joseph Oliver | Williamson | 21 | chainrunner | Fall of roof | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: Joseph Oliver Wiliamson, chainrunner, 40 Mid Street, Broxburn, died on 29 April 1949 at Bangour Hospital, Broxburn, from injuries sustained on the same day in the Lodgement Dook of No. 35 Shale Pit, Threemiletown, Linlithgow |
1949 | May | 11 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Arthur | Morris | 71 | underground colliery fireman | Knocked down by runaway hutch | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
1949 | May | 13 | Polmaise | Stirlingshire | Peter | Den Kaat | 25 | Coal stripper | Fall from roof | |
1949 | May | 16 | Comrie | Fife | Thomas | Sharp | 25 | duckbill worker | Fall occurred at coal face | NAS FAI "Thomas Sharp, duckbill worker, 6 James Hogg Crescent, Oakley, Fife, died on 16 May 1949 at West Fife Hospital, Dunfermline, Fife, from injuries sustained on the same day at Comrie Colliery, Oakley, Parish of Saline, Fife, when he was crushed by a fall from the roof" |
1949 | May | 25 | NK Bonnyrigg area | James Chapman | McKenzie | 52 | coal miner | Subarachnoid hemorrhage – died 3.5 months after being struck by fall of stone | FAI and DC | |
1949 | May | 30 | Lingerwood | Lothian | George Ramsay | Miller | 37 | coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1949 | June | 6 | Kingshill No 1 | Lanarkshire | Robert | McMaster | 20 | Coal miner | Crushed between two hutches | |
1949 | June | 7 | Kingshill No 2 | Lanarkshire | Bertram | Boor | 34 | Miner | Fall of rock | |
1949 | June | 8 | Aitken | Fife | William Tilla | Small | coal miner | Stone fell upon him | NAS FAI | |
1949 | June | 13 | Kingshill No 1 | Lanarkshire | Thomas | Hampson | 34 | Miner | Fall of rock from roof | |
Matthew | Sloan | 62 | Miner | |||||||
1949 | June | 14 | Easton | Lothian | James | Strang | Loaderman | Caught by belt of a conveyor and dragged into the loading chute | ||
1949 | July | 5 | Whitequarries | Lothian | Thomas | Gavin | Shale miner | Fall of roof | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: Thomas Gavin, shale miner, 18 Cardcross Road, Broxburn, died on 5 July 1949 at No. 1 Mine, Whitequarries, Abercorn Parish, when material fell from the roof of his working place on him | |
1949 | July | 12 | Muirkirk area (died in Hairmyres Hospital) | Ayrshire | David Donaldson | Wyllie | 43 | Hewer | Fractured spine - died of heart failure and shock during operation | Muirkirk memorial & death cert |
1949 | July | 30 | Kippsbyre Mine | Lanarkshire | Charles Paterson | Stewart | coal miner | Stone fell upon him | NAS FAI | |
1949 | August | 2 | Polkemmet | Lothian | John | McIlroy | 44 | Fall of stone | ||
1949 | August | 6 | No. 6 Mine, Roman Camp, Broxburn | Lothian | Patrick | Brehany | shale miner | Struck by material projected from a shot | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: Patrick Brehany, shale miner, 115 Greendykes Road, Broxburn, West Lothian, died on 6 August 1949 at No. 6 Mine, Roman Camp, Broxburn, when he was struck by material projected from a shot | |
1949 | August | 14 | Lingerwood | Lothian | Alfred | Lawrence | 21 | Brusher | Fall of stone | |
1949 | August | 20 | Level 61, Bratts Colliery | Lothian | Andrew | Buchan | 29 | miner | Rock fall/fractured skull and pelvis | With thanks to Ian Aitken-Kemp for providing this information |
1949 | August | 24 | NK- Dalkeith area | Lothian | David | Campbell | 41 | Coal miner | Fall of stone | |
1949 | September | 11 | No. 6 Mine, Roman Camp, Broxburn | Lothian | James John | Kelly | 28 | shale miner | Ruptured spleen sustained when pushing a full hutch | NAS: Fatal Accident Inquiry: James Kelly, shale miner, 36 Cardross Crescent, Broxburn, died on 11 September 1949 at Bangour Hospital, Uphall, from injuries sustained on 31 August 1949 when he fell in No. 6 Mine, Roman Camp, Broxburn |
1949 | September | 12 | No 7 Cowdenbeath | Fife | John | Wyles | coal miner | Fall of roof | NAS FAI | |
1949 | September | 29 | Kail Blades Dook, Emily Pit, Gorebridge | Lothian | John Russell | Campbell | 59 | coal miner | Fall of stone |
FAI and DC James Bell was formerly known as James Thomson Watson |
James | Bell | 70 | coal miner | |||||||
1949 | September | 30 | Blantyre Colliery | Lanarkshire | Robert | Frizzell | 44 | colliery fireman | Crushing | Death cert. |
1949 | October | 10 | Blantyreferme | Lanarkshire | Thomas | Fox | hole borer | Blast after shaft collapse | Scotsman 11 October 1949 | |
1949 | November | 5 | Burghlee Colliery | Lothian | John Milne | Ledbetter | 34 | coal miner | Gas explosion on 31 Oct 1949 | Dundee Courier 9 June 1951 |
1949 | November | 10 | Lassodie | Fife | Anderson | Martin | 16 | Caught in machinery | Newspaper report - Beath pages | |
1949 | November | 15 | Benhar | Lanarkshire | Duncan Kerr | Dunn | 68 | underground supervisor | Struck by runaway hutches | NAS FAI |
1949 | November | 25 | Dumbreck Colliery | Stirlingshire | Richard | Rooney | 43 | Belt shifter | Fall of stone | With thanks to Frances Savage for information on this accident. Details supplied differed from the death cert. in date, age & cause - information here is from death cert. |
1949 | December | 3 | Blairmuckhill | Lanarkshire | Lindsay Thomson | Tait | 29 | coal miner | Killed by runaway hutches | NAS FAI: Lindsay Thomson Tait, coal miner, 55 Westcraigs, by Blackridge, died on 3 December 1949 in the North Main Coal Mine Haulage Road, Blairmuckhill Colliery, Harthill, Lanarkshire, when he was struck down by 16 empty runaway hutches |
1949 | December | 17 | Gartshore No 3 | Robert | McCormack | 50 | Colliery pumpman | Clothing caught in moving parts of pump | We were supplied with details of an accident to Robert McCormack in Gartshore with a date in 1939. Following further research, we believe this may be the accident referred to. We would like to thank George Boyd for the information supplied | |
1949 | December | 23 | Inchneuk Mine Glenboig | Lanarkshire | John | McStay | fireclay miner | Buried by fall from roof and wall | NAS FAI "John McStay, fireclay miner, 19 Viewbank Street, Glenboig, Lanarkshire, died on 23 December 1949 in the Woodend Section of Inchneuk Mine, Glenboig, when a fall occurred from the wall and roof and buried him" |