| Year | Month | Day | Name of Colliery | Where situated | Owner or Company | First Name | Surname | Occupation | Age | Category | Cause of accident and remarks | Extra details |
| 1892 | July | 9 | Stravenhouse | Lanark | Trustees of James Thornton | James | Dick | Pony driver | 14 | Miscellaneous underground | Crushed by hutch | Deceased was a driver, and as he was absent with his rake longer than usual one of the roadsmen proceeded inbye to ascertain if anything had happened, and when 70 yards from the faces he found the horse standing and the tub derailed in front, and deceased lying under it quite dead. It is supposed, from the position in which deceased was lying, that when walking between the horse and the tub he had stumbled and fallen, and the horse had pulled the tub over him, as the tail chain was rigid. |
| 1892 | July | 9 | Farme | Rutherglen | Allan Farie | Robt. | Bennett | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face | |
| 1892 | July | 11 | Denbeath | Fife | Bowman & Co | William | Matthew | Brusher | 26 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of stone | |
| 1892 | July | 11 | Bogleshole No 4 | Cambuslang | James Dunlop & Co | David | Liddell | Miner | 30 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face | Newspaper report |
| 1892 | July | 13 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Scott | Dook header | 19 | Miscellaneous underground | Burned by oil | Deceased was employed at the head of a dook not far from the shaft bottom. The dook head is ordinarily illuminated by electric lights, but on the day of the accident these were not in use, and lamps of the shape of an ordinary tin miner's lamp, but much larger in size, were in use. There was no considerable current of air at the dook head unless a door, through which persons often passed, between it and the shaft was opened. Deceased was filling one of the lamps while it was lighted with oil from a gallon can, and it was supposed that the opening of the door caused the flame, to deflect and ignite the oil, and deceased's clothing was set on fire ; he ran about in a state of frenzy, and although workmen near attempted to extinguish his burning clothing this was not accomplished until he was so severely burned that he succumbed the same day. |
| 1892 | July | 16 | Parkhead No 17 | Motherwell | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co | Edward | Fairley | Engineman | 60 | Miscellaneous underground | Caught by the flywheel of underground pumping engine | |
| 1892 | July | 19 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Daniel | McMillan | Miner | 45 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | July | 27 | Ayr – Sundrum No 3 | Ayr | Geo Taylor & Co | Hugh | Wales | Waggon shifter | 19 | Above ground | Fell while breaking loaded waggons and was run over | |
| 1892 | July | 29 | Birkenshaw | Lanark | Birkenshaw Coal Co | George | McInnes | Miner | 31 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of stone | |
| 1892 | July | 29 | Gartshore No3 | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | Archd. | Armstrong | Drawer | 17 | Explosions of fire damp | Explosion of fire-damp | It appears that on the day of the explosion, about three hours after commencing work, the deceased and his brother were taking a full hutch from the working face out their drawing road, and had reached a point where two hurdle screens had been erected on account of firedamp having previously been found in a cavity in the roof. Some firedamp which had accumulated there ignited at their naked lights, and both were injured by the explosion. The elder brother subsequently succumbed to his injuries, which were followed by an attack of scarlatina. It was said that no firedamp had been found there by the fireman when he made his morning inspection, nor for some time previously, but that a miner in the adjoining working place had fired a shot some 25 minutes before the explosion and partially closed the airway, and this was the probable cause of the gas accumulating. Another explosion occurred in this pit on the same day, and again another a fortnight afterwards. I requested the owners to discontinue the use of naked lights, which they agreed to do, and the pit is now worked with safety lamps. |
| 1892 | August | 2 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Robert | Pryde | Miner | 36 | Miscellaneous underground | Explosion of shot | Deceased was engaged in making an underground stable. He bored a vertical up over hole in stone to a depth of 1 foot 7 inches, and charged it with 1 lb. of gunpowder. The fuse used was an ordinary paper squib, and as the hole was perpendicular he fixed it with a piece of clay, and attached to it a match consisting of a piece of cotton wick saturated with liquid tallow. All being in readiness, he proceeded to light the match, when the shot exploded, killing him almost instantaneously. In applying flame to the match he had evidently ignited the squib. The shot was blown out; only a small portion of stone was detached at the mouth of the hole. |
| 1892 | August | 4 | Lochgelly | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | James | Walkingshaw | Miner | 60 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | August | 7 | Cadder No 16 | Bishopbriggs | Carron Co | Archd. | Morrison | Shaftsman | 40 | In shafts | Fell down the shaft while renewing a scaffold | A shafts man lost his life by falling a distance of 37 fathoms from a permanent scaffold which he and other two men were repairing. They were taking out a broken beam which was placed across the shaft, previous to replacing it by another, when the deceased incautiously, and in spite of the warning of his fellow workmen, stepped upon it in order to fasten a rope round it. The beam gave way with his weight, and he was precipitated to the bottom. |
| 1892 | August | 12 | Wellsgreen | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Henry | McCartney | Miner | 63 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | August | 18 | Bartonshill No 1 | Baillieston | Wm Baird & Co | Jas. | McLeod | Pony driver | 17 | Miscellaneous underground | Run over by a hutch on a self-acting incline | |
| 1892 | August | 19 | Stravenhouse | Lanark | Trustees of James Thornton | James | Cowden | Miner | 58 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of stone | |
| 1892 | August | 20 | Wilsontown | Lanark | William Dixon Ltd | William | Bryce | Roadsman | 45 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of stone | |
| 1892 | August | 22 | Merryton | Lanark | Merryton Coal Co | Robert | Todd | Miner | 15 | Miscellaneous underground | Crushed by hutch | In this case deceased was overpowered by an empty tub which he was easing down an inclined roadway. He was forced backwards some distance and crushed against a loaded tub standing on the main roadway. Shortly before the accident a heavy gunpowder shot, fired in an adjoining stone mine, filled the roadway with smoke, and apparently caused deceased to lower the tub past the branch road up which he intended to shove it, and on to a gradient too steep for him to control it : this accident is another illustration of the danger drawers expose themselves to by being in front of tubs coming down hill. |
| 1892 | August | 27 | Goatfoot | Galston | Brand & Co | Andrew | Spiers | Horse overseer | 72 | In shafts | While placing hay on the cage the engineman lowered it | |
| 1892 | August | 27 | Carfin No 2 | Holytown | Carfin Coal Co | Neil | Brown | Screenman | 19 | Above ground | Run over by a waggon while breaking it | |
| 1892 | August | 29 | Donibristle | Fife | Donibristle Colliery Co | Thomas | Cuthbert | Drawer | 34 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of head coal | |
| 1892 | September | 6 | Stravenhouse | Lanark | Trustees of James Thornton | Alfred | Jenkins | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | September | 7 | Quarter No 1 | Denny | Wm Baird & Co | Wm. | Hunter | Miner | 40 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | September | 12 | Douglas Park No 1 | Bothwell | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co | Wm. | Rutherford | Brusher | 23 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1892 | September | 15 | Kames | Muirkirk | Eglinton Iron Co | Matthew | Holden | Pony driver | 15 | In shafts | While adjusting a hutch on the cage the engineman started without having first got the signal, and he was crushed against the side of the shaft | Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages |
| 1892 | September | 16 | Craighead No 2 | Bothwell | Wm Baird & Co | Cormick | Higgins | Miner | 67 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1892 | September | 17 | Muiredge | Fife | Bowman & Co | Charles | Frazer | Hutch mender | 72 | Above ground | Run over by waggons | Deceased had been employed repairing hutches at No. 2 pit, and was proceeding thence towards the blacksmith's shop to get some bolts. While walking along one of the sidings near the pit, he was knocked down and run over by two empty trucks and a locomotive which was pushing them towards a screen. The locomotive driver blew his steam whistle, and stood on the left side of his engine keeping a look-out ahead, but owing to a curve in the road he was unable to see deceased. The brakesman was lying along the foot-plate in front of the engine, in readiness to uncouple the trucks, and did not see deceased until they had passed over him. The right wheels of both trucks and the locomotive had passed over his right foot; he had received a severe flesh wound in the left leg, and a slight cut near the left eye. He died about two hours afterwards. Owing to his advanced age, his hearing was somewhat defective; hence his disregard of the warning whistle, which, if he heard it at all, he probably assumed to come from an engine shunting in the coal sidings close by. When shunting in busy sidings so close to a pit, workshop, &c,, where people are constantly passing to and fro, the brakesman or guard should be required to walk in front of the moving waggons, or to ride in such a position that he can at all times see the road in front of them |
| 1892 | September | 19 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Young | Marshall | Shaftsman | 25 | In shafts | Fell down incline | This accident happened in a perpendicular brake shaft in the coal seam in the highly inclined measures at Niddrie. Deceased had been employed as a shaft man in this shaft for several years, and was a good practical workman. Repairs were being made near the top, and when these were almost completed, deceased descended on the cage to an old level, and in stepping off he slipped and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of about 80 fathoms. |
| 1892 | September | 24 | Pentland | Edinburgh | Clippens Oil Co Ltd | John | Dollan | Dirt picker | 70 | Above ground | Run over by waggons | Deceased was a " crow picker'' but on the day of the accident he had been engaged cutting timber for the mines. During the afternoon some tipsy men were fighting on the opposite side of the railway from where deceased was working, and it appears he left his work to go and see what was the cause of the quarrel. He attempted to get under some empty waggons which at the moment were stationary, not knowing that the locomotive engine was about to shunt them. Just as he got under the buffers the waggons moved; he tried to retrace his steps, but his left foot caught in the points and two of the waggons passed over his legs. |
| 1892 | September | 24 | Milburn | Lanark | Archibald Russell | Thomas | Halley | Miner | 24 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof | |
| 1892 | September | 26 | Haugh No 1 | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | Robt. | Anderson | Drawer | 24 | Miscellaneous underground | While drawing in front of a hutch his head struck the lintel of a screen | |
| 1892 | September | 27 | Common No 15 | Cumnock | Eglinton Iron Co | John | Robertson | Pony driver | 15 | Miscellaneous underground | Supposed to have fallen in front of his “race” and got run over | |
| 1892 | October | 1 | Bonnyton No 6 | Kilmarnock | Gilmour, Anderson & Co | Wm. | Currans | Miner | 35 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face | |
| 1892 | October | 3 | Bellfield | Lanark | William Barr & Sons | William | Brown | Sinker | 44 | In shafts | Fell down shaft | This accident was caused through the fracture of a cast-iron drum shaft of a winding engine geared 3 to 1. Deceased was engaged with some others in enlarging an old shaft. The work was done from a temporary scaffold fixed in the shaft. As the work proceeded downwards this scaffold was taken out and refixed at a lower level. The scaffold was 19 fathoms from the surface when the accident took place. Deceased gave the signal to ascend, and after the usual short interval he was raised in the kettle, and when about 15 feet from the surface the drum shaft broke, and the weight of the kettle, &c. caused the drum to revolve in the contrary direction. The kettle was precipitated right through the scaffold to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 55 fathoms. When the kettle began to descend the engineman and the contractor, who happened to be in the engine-house, ran to the brake on the drum, but evidently the speed gained was too great, as they were unable to stop it. The engine was an old one, transferred from an abandoned colliery in the district; the drum shaft was 5 inches in diameter except at the journals, where it was 4 inches. The fracture was a clean one. |
| 1892 | October | 5 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | David | Cairns | Fireman | 59 | Persons not employed and deaths from natural causes | Leg bruised by fall of stone. Died from apoplexy; stated by doctor to have no connexion with the injury | |
| 1892 | October | 6 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Alexander | Henderson | Miner | 30 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | October | 6 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Cowdenbeath Coal Co Ltd | David | Noble | Brusher | 58 | Miscellaneous underground | Crushed by hutch | Deceased was a contractor brusher, and worked at night with two of his men rebrushing a level at top of a self-acting incline, 53 yards long and dipping 1 in 3. A tub was filled with debris and brought out to the head of the incline, and deceased took hold of it in front to turn it on to the full road ; while doing so his left foot inadvertently knocked out the "block," and the tub ran over on to the incline, forcing him before it for 30 feet, when it left the rails and injured him so severely that he died two hours after. |
| 1892 | October | 7 | Hamilton Palace | Bothwell | Bent Colliery Co | Patrick | Cunningham | Miner | 32 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | October | 7 | Newton No 2 | Cambuslang | Jas Dunlop & Co | Walter | Stewart | reddsman | 35 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof on haulage road while repairing it | |
| 1892 | October | 11 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | William | Morrison | Hammerman | 67 | In shafts | Fell down pit | The shaft is 150 fathoms in depth, and the tubs are raised in it upon three-decked cages, 13 feet in height. Both sides of the shaft at the top scaffold are fenced by sparred gates which work between wood guides, and are raised and lowered by the cages. After the ordinary winding operations had ceased for the day, the rise cage was taken off and replaced by a new one. The work was done under the supervision of the foreman blacksmith, and deceased, who was a hammerman, was assisting. The gates had been removed, the old cage taken off and laid aside upon the scaffold, and the winding rope attached to the new cage, which lay upon a temporary gangway sloping up from the ground to the permanent scaffold. It was intended that the engine should draw it up, while some men assisted it with levers. Deceased, who had been present during the operations and who was then upon the top scaffold, was told by the foreman to go down and assist some others who were behind the cage. He went towards the shaft to descend by a stair a few feet beyond it and was not again seen alive. About half an hour afterwards he was missed, and, as he could not be found elsewhere, it was suspected that he had fallen down the shaft. Two men descended and found his body in the sump. A bye road 4 feet 2 inches in width, passes the rise end of the shaft and is separated from it by a fixed fence. Deceased was believed to have been making for this bye road and to have inadvertently walked into the open shaft, which was partially obscured by some steam leaking from a column of pipes in it. Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1892 | October | 11 | Newton No 2 | Cambuslang | Jas Dunlop & Co | Adam | Cameron | Brusher | 25 | Miscellaneous underground | Explosion of compressed powder while stemming a shot | |
| 1892 | October | 11 | Gartshore No 9 | Kilsyth | Wm Baird & Co | John | Hanan | Brusher | 33 | Explosions of fire damp | Explosion of firedamp while firing a shot | Resulted in the death of one brusher and the injury of other two persons. The coking coal workings of this pit are worked with safety lamps, and it seems that on the night of the explosion the night fireman, Alexander Milligan, made his inspection about 9p.m., and afterwards met the two brushers at the station where he told them that they might go into the new " slope " road, where they were to be engaged brushing, but that, as the air was a little foul, they were to be careful. The two brushers accordingly commenced to brush the road about six yards distant from the face. Shortly after 10 p.m. Milligan fired a shot for them at the face of the brushing, and again at 2 a.m. he visited them to fire another, and it appears that when lighting the fuse he ignited an accumulation of firedamp. The result was an explosion which injured both brushers and the fireman, and from the effects of his injuries one of the brushers subsequently died. It is evident that this shot ought not to have been fired under the circumstances. The fireman failed to make a report of the condition of the workings in terms of General Rule 4, and was afterwards charged with this contravention of the statute as well as of special Rule 38 in permitting workmen to enter the working place before thoroughly clearing the same of firedamp. The result was that the second charge was found "not proven'' but the maximum penalty of £2 was imposed for the other offence. |
| 1892 | October | 12 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | George | Johnstone | Miner | 60 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | October | 18 | Leadhills | Lanark | Leadhills Silver-lead Mining and Smelting Co Ltd | George | Watson | Filler | 20 | In shafts | Fell in ladder shaft | Deceased was employed as a filler of the kibble in which the ore was raised to the surface in Wilson's shaft, and he attended at several levels for that purpose. He passed from one level to another by ladders placed at one end of the shaft. While descending from the 85 to the 100 fathom level he fell from the ladders on to the roof of the 100 and was killed. The ladders from the 85 to the 100 .were in one continuous length of 25 yards, and were placed on the foot wall of the vein, which had a grade of from 1 foot to 2 foot per fathom. The ladders were made of wood, and were of the ordinary construction. It was stated by persons who had descended from the 85 to the 100 immediately before the accident that the ladders were then in good order. After the accident it was found that the 36th rung from the 85 had been torn off, the nail at one end was broken, and at the other torn out; the rung was not found. Whether the rung gave way by the weight of deceased in the course of ordinary descent or had been clutched by him and wrenched off after he had begun to fall could not be determined. |
| 1892 | October | 21 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | William | Goldie | Sinker | 23 | In shafts | Fell off scaffold in shaft | Deceased and another sinker were engaged in removing a temporary water scaffold. They stood upon the upper deck of a walling scaffold which was suspended in the shaft at a distance of about 47 fathoms from the bottom. The scaffold was constructed of malleable iron ; it was circular in plan, its lower deck being 1 1/2 inches and its upper deck 18 inches less in diameter than the finished size of the shaft. The two decks were 9 feet apart, and in their centre an aperture or well 11 feet 2 inches by 6 feet was formed through which the kettles ran to and from the sinkers below. The water scaffold had been fitted up to protect the wallers. The outer ends of the deals of which it was composed rested upon and were nailed to a plank which was laid upon the upper deck of the walling scaffold, just clear of the rectangular well. Deceased's mate pulled off one of the scaffolding deals and handed it to him to lay it aside. He turned to do so, and appeared to trip over the plank referred to, and fell headlong through the well of the scaffold. His skull and several of his limbs were fractured. |
| 1892 | October | 21 | Rochsolloch | Lanark | Airdrie Coal Co | John | Wylie | Brusher | 42 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of stone | |
| 1892 | October | 22 | Bardykes | Cambuslang | Merry & Cunninghame | Hamilton | Ramage | Waggon shifter | 27 | Above ground | Crushed between waggons while moving them | |
| 1892 | October | 31 | Fergushill No 28 | Irvine | Archd. Finnie & Son | John | Knox | Miner | 35 | Miscellaneous underground | Premature ignition of a shot while lighting the squib | |
| 1892 | October | 31 | Rosehall No 10 | Coatbridge | Robt Addie & Son | Samuel | Stevenson | Miner | 40 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face | |
| 1892 | November | 15 | Wellsgreen | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Thomson | Pithead worker | 24 | Above ground | Fell from scaffold | Deceased and other runners were engaged emptying tubs of refuse over a shoot into a waggon standing on the main line. It is supposed that while looking to see if the waggon was filled, he leaned forward over the top railing on the pithead scaffold, causing the railing to give way, and he fell on to the railway below, a distance of 30 feet. In his fall his head came in contact with a locomotive engine which was standing beneath the scaffold. The railing did not appear to be very securely fixed. |
| 1892 | November | 16 | Gilbertfield No 2 | Cambuslang | Cambuslang Coal Co | Terence | Gaffney | Miner | 50 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | November | 21 | Bothwell Park | Bothwell | Wm Baird & Co | Wm. | Jackson | Roadsman | 30 | Miscellaneous underground | Run over by runaway hutches on a haulage road | |
| 1892 | November | 23 | Pennyvenie No 2 | Dalmellington | Dalmellington Iron Co | Jas. | McJannet | Miner | 54 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face | |
| 1892 | November | 24 | Auchinraith No 2 | Blantyre | Merry & Cunninghame | Thos. | McAnney | Pony driver | 16 | Miscellaneous underground | Crushed between hutches | |
| 1892 | November | 29 | Hallside | Cambuslang | Jas Dunlop & Co | John | Gibb | Miner | 25 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1892 | December | 1 | Douglas Park No 2 | Bellshill | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co | Wm. | Barr | Miner | 21 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof at working face while “stooping” | |
| 1892 | December | 5 | Dunsyston | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Thomas | Britton | Miner | 20 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of roof | |
| 1892 | December | 15 | Udston | Lanark | Udston Coal Co Ltd | James | Dunsmore | Miner | 46 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of head coal | |
| 1892 | December | 15 | Gilbertfield No 2 | Cambuslang | Cambuslang Coal Co | Jas. | Laird | Miner | 20 | Falls of roof & sides | Fall of coal | |
| 1892 | December | 17 | Drumclair | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co | Andrew | Brown | Child | 3 | Persons not employed and deaths from natural causes | Haulage wheel | |
| 1892 | December | 20 | Pumpherston | Edinburgh | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | Peter | Ward | Miner | 23 | Miscellaneous underground | Explosion of shot | A miner had bored a hole for a holing shot in oil shale at the face of on upset inclined at 40° ; he charged it with 1 ½ lbs. of gunpowder, inserted a needle, stemmed the shot and withdrew the needle; he then inserted a squib prepared by another miner, and deceased, who worked near, offered to fire it. This was agreed to, and deceased prepared a match consisting of a piece of cotton wick dipped in oil, which he attached to the squib and afterwards ignited. Before he could get clear the shot exploded, and he was struck by dislodged mineral and fell to the bottom of the upset, a distance of four or five yards, receiving injuries that resulted fatally in the course of an hour or two. It appeared that instructions had been given, on the ground of safety, that the miners should use gutta-percha fuse, or strum as it is termed, instead of squibs in firing shots. The miners have two objections to the use of fuse as compared with squibs: 1st. In holing shots, which they consider require hard stemming, the fuse is apt to be cut or bruised, and a miss fire results. 2nd. Fuse is more costly than a squib. |
| 1892 | December | 21 | Kirkhill | Cambuslang | Kirkhill Coal Co | Hugh | McGuigan | Miner | 45 | Miscellaneous underground | Explosion of compressed powder from a spark off his naked light | |
| 1892 | December | 22 | Wanlockhead – North Glencrieff Mine | Wanlockhead | Duke of Buccleuch | James | Gilmour | Joiner | 60 | In shafts | Fell from part way down the shaft | It occurred at Wanlockhead lead mine in one of the winding shafts which lies at an angle of 62°, and is provided with a cage in one division and a counterbalance in the other. A ladder runs down the middle of the floor of the counterbalance division, and the rope attached to the balance runs on pulleys on the top of the ladder, which is only used for purposes of repair to the shaft. It appears that the assistant-manager, accompanied by a miner, was about to be lowered in the cage from the surface to the 90 fathom level when the deceased informed him that he intended going down the ladder to see if the rope in the counterbalance division of the shaft was running properly in the grooves of the guiding pulleys. The under-manager at once prohibited him from entering the shaft in this manner, and the cage was then lowered with the deceased to the adit level, 12 fathoms from the surface, after which it was again raised to take the under-manager to his destination. Just as the cage reached the 90 fathom level the deceased fell down the shaft, having, in spite of the prohibition, gone down the ladder. It is probable that on meeting the ascending counterbalance he endeavoured to avoid it by stepping upon a bunton between the two divisions, and either fell or was knocked off by the counterbalance. |
| 1892 | December | 27 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co | Alexander | Paterson | Miner | 14 | In shafts | Fell from cage | Deceased, a lad of 14, who had been employed underground three months, was ascending the shaft with seven other persons in a single decked cage provided with a sufficient cover and bars to hold on by. Deceased stood at the outside and he was carrying a pick. When a short distance above meetings he fell from the cage, but the cause of his falling could not be ascertained. |