| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Occupation | Age | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1901 | July | 1 | Warrix | Ayr | Bourtreehill Coal Co | James Watson | Brusher | 37 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at brushing face. He knocked out a crown to fire a shot when the roof gave way. | |
| 1901 | July | 3 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Wil. Ballingall | Wagon weigher | 50 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Run over by a wagon near a coal washer. He had left his cabin to call attention to something wrong with the washer. He had a wooden leg. | |
| 1901 | July | 11 | Hattonrigg No 4 pit | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Wm Laggan | Bottomer | 23 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | When descending in the cage from a mid working the cage caught him. He seems to have attempted to leave the cage after it commenced to descend | Newspaper report- Bothwell pages |
| 1901 | July | 22 | Dechmont No 2 Pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Daniel Docherty | Drawer | 28 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While taking a hutch down a “cuddie” brae the rope broke and the “cuddie” ran down upon him | |
| 1901 | July | 22 | Blantyre No 3 pit | Lanark | Wm. Dixon Ltd | Thos. Armstrong | Waggon shifter | 20 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While illegally spragging a waggon with a prop the sprag struck and threw him in front of the wheels which ran over him | |
| 1901 | July | 24 | Auchinraith No 1 pit | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Henry Tennant | Miner | 17 | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | While descending in the cage with other 6 men the cage in some unexplained manner left the slides and they fell out | Newspaper Report - Blantyre pages |
| James McGurk | Bottomer | 37 | |||||||||
| 1901 | July | 29 | Sheriffyards | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | John Murray | Screenman | 45 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While coming out below the screens he does not appear to have noticed a train of empty wagons which were being pushed forward by a locomotive engine. The guard was on the leading wagon, and shouted to warn deceased. | |
| 1901 | July | 30 | Fallahill | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | John Grant | Brusher | 40 | Falls of roof | Deceased worked alone, and was engaged brushing a road, and on the fireman making his round of inspection he was discovered under a stone quite dead. From the position it was thought deceased had been taking out props when the roof fell on him. | |
| 1901 | August | 1 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | John Devlin | Miner | 19 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in the waste close to his working face in Ell Coal stooping section. He ought not to have entered the waste where the props had been removed. | |
| 1901 | August | 1 | Lightshaw | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Gavin Robb | Hooker-on | 13 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While disconnecting a hutch of props from a tail chain on surface haulage road when in front of it he fell, and the hutch ran over him. | |
| 1901 | August | 2 | South Broadrigg | Linlithgow | John Nimmo & Son Ltd | William McCorrie | Miner | 31 | Falls of side | At the end of deceased's first shift in the pit he was holing the coal in a close place when a piece of it fell from a lype and crushed his head. | |
| 1901 | August | 2 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Herd | Repairer | 34 | Falls of roof | While repairing an engine dook a large stone fell upon him. | |
| 1901 | August | 3 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | John Morgan | Miner | 43 | Falls of side | Deceased and several others were widening out a 12 ft. place in a seam 3 ft. 9 ins. in thickness, and transforming it into a longwall heading. He was lying holing at a point about six or eight feet from which a shot hole had already been drilled and charged, when a piece of coal, 6ft.5 ins. by 2 ft. 5 ins. at extremes, suddenly burst off the face and fell upon him. causing injuries to which he succumbed the same day. | |
| 1901 | August | 5 | Harburn (Limestone) | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | George Ritchie | Drawer | 16 | Metalliferous Mines | While filling a hutch with limestone at the face of a dook a mass of limestone fell from the side near the roof. | |
| 1901 | August | 8 | Riddochhill | Linlithgow | Gavin Paul & Sons Ltd | Peter Connelly | Miner | 28 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While deceased was following up a hutch containing some props on a short "cuddie brae" the rope broke, and he was forced backward by the hutch and jammed against a tree. The rope was made of steel wire, and was of ample strength. The cause of the fracture was not ascertained. | |
| 1901 | August | 9 | Rankinston No 1 pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Hugh Kirk | Engineman | 37 | Surface – miscellaneous | When starting the pumping engine the stop valve casing burst and the escaping steam scalded him to death | |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Craighead No 1 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Frederick Marks | Miner | 28 | Falls of roof | In stepping back to avoid a piece of coal which fell from the roof he slipped and fell against a hutch | |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Gartshore No 2 Pit | Dumbarton | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | John Gallacher | Drawer | 19 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1901 | August | 14 | Kirkwood No 1 and 2 pits | Lanark | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Thomas Stirling | Miner | 32 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place. | |
| 1901 | August | 15 | Woodhill No 8 Pit | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | James Murphy | Labourer | 76 | Surface – miscellaneous | When tipping a hutch of fire-clay into a waggon he fell off the unfenced gangway, a hight of 6 ½ feet | |
| 1901 | August | 16 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Japp | Fireman | 65 | Falls of roof | A miner was taking a cut off the inbye side of a stoop in a seam .5ft 10in. in thickness. Hearing the roof working at the level road, he went out and set some timber, and while doing so deceased approached from the outbye side. The miner reported what had happened, and deceased passed inbye, tapping the roof with a hand hammer. He had only gone a few yards, when a triangular stone 5 ft. by 2 ft. 3 in. at extremes, and 9 in. in thickness, fell from a lype hitherto unseen, and killed him instantly. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | August | 19 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | John Wilson | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof | The roof collapsed over a large area at the face of a long wall road in the Lochgelly Splint seam. | |
| 1901 | August | 19 | Douglas | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | John Hope | Miner | 24 | Falls of roof | Deceased worked in a room 9 to l10 feet wide. The face was standing on an upthrow of 3 ½ feet, and the left side had stripped an unproved upthrow for a distance of 14 feet. No one witnessed the accident, but they were believed to have fired a shot at the face, and to have been engaged in working off the loose stuff, when the roof burst in upon them, completely burying them. | |
| James Hope | Miner | 26 | |||||||||
| 1901 | August | 19 | Linridge | Lanark | John Horn & Co | William Craig | Miner | 14 | Shaft accidents – overwinding | Deceased and his father were ascending an upcast shaft, 34 fathoms in depth on a single decked cage worked by a single cylindered horizontal engine. As they approached the surface deceased remarked that they were going too fast. The cage was raised a considerable distance above the upper scaffold, and fearing that it was to be overwound, the father leaped off, fell upon the roof of the pithead house and rolledown upon the scaffold. Deceased jumped or fell from the cage, landed upon the pavilion end of the pithead house, rolled off and fell down the shaft and was killed instantly | Newspaper Report - Lanarkshire pages |
| 1901 | August | 24 | Cadder (coal and ironstone) | Lanark | Carron Co | Richard Gibb | Labourer | 45 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | A train of waggons going down an incline was not spragged and ran into the lye where Gibb was working and killed him | |
| 1901 | August | 26 | Donibristle | Fife | Donibristle Coal Co | William Forsyth | Wheeler | 20 | Sundries | Inflow of moss | See report |
| Jas Bowman McDonald | Incline bottomer | 32 | |||||||||
| William Hynd | Pit bottomer | 52 | |||||||||
| Andrew Paterson | Ostler | 40 | |||||||||
| David Campbell | Fireman | 54 | |||||||||
| Thomas Rattray | Oversman | 54 | |||||||||
| Geo. Herd Hutchison | Miner | 50 | |||||||||
| Alexander Smith | oncostman | 48 | |||||||||
| 1901 | August | 29 | Oakbank (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | James Haddow | Miner | 38 | Underground by explosives | Deceased bored a hole for a shot to a depth of 3 feet 7 inches, and inserted the contents of two 1 lb cartridges of gunpowder into it; in beginning to stem, the gunpowder exploded and he was badly burnt and succumbed subsequently to his injuries. Deceased's cap with lamp attached was found near the hole, and the probabilities are the explosion was caused by a spark from the lamp. | Newspaper report |
| 1901 | September | 1 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Morris | Roadsman | 41 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | Deceased and others had moved upwards the drum of a carriage incline, and were testing the running of the carriage on which the deceased were. The rope came off the drum and fell on the axle, and the consequent jerk drew the rope out of the socket or hose next the back balance. The man at the brake was not able to hold the carriage, which dashed to the bottom. The props which are usually set to prevent the rope getting off the drum had not been put up. | Newspaper report |
| George Peacock | Roadsman | 48 | |||||||||
| 1901 | September | 3 | Garturk, Britton Pit | Lanark | Wm. Dixon Ltd | Wm. McLeod | pitheadman | 44 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | When pinching forward a full waggon from the scree other two waggons followed and he was crushed between the buffers | |
| 1901 | September | 4 | Auchinraith No 2 pit | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Stephen Robson | Miner | 36 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | September | 9 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Hodge | Fireman | 40 | Falls of roof | While passing from one longwall face to another by the rib side a stone from the roof fell on him. He had been warned not to use the road as the roof was not good. | |
| 1901 | September | 11 | Tarbrax (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Caledonian Mineral Oil Co Ltd | David Scott Telford | Bogie boy | 14 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While in charge of a bogie and rake of loaded hutches on a surface endless rope tramway, he fell from the bogie and was run over. | Newspaper report |
| 1901 | September | 16 | Woodend | Linlithgow | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | James Forrest | Pony driver | 20 | Falls of side | Deceased was proceeding inbye with a rake of tubs when a stone fell from the side in the lye, killing him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | September | 20 | Cousland (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | James O'Donnell | Miner | 35 | Underground by explosives | Deceased had prepared a "yankee" or holing shot at the face of a level, and while lighting the fuse or immediately after lighting it he appears to have lost his light, become confused, and must have been near the shot when it exploded, as he was blown 64 feet from the face, where he was found unconscious and much injured. | |
| 1901 | September | 25 | Greenfield | Lanark | Archd. Russell | James Murdoch | Miner | 33 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | September | 26 | Champfleurie (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Linlithgow Oil Co Ltd | John Morran | Miner | 41 | Falls of roof | Deceased and two other workmen were engaged repairing a level road when the roof suddenly fell. | |
| 1901 | September | 27 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame, Ltd | Andrew Guthrie | Miner | 55 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at face of working place in Main Coal stooping section. Due to a want of props which were about 7 feet back from the face. | |
| 1901 | October | 3 | Dalquhandy | Lanark | Waddell & Son | Charles Freeley | Trimmer | 23 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While illegally spragging a waggon with a 6ft prop the sprag knocked him in front of the wheels | |
| 1901 | October | 7 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | William Rankine | Miner | 18 | Falls of side | Deceased was employed in a dook, and in passing an empty tub to give the chain-runner assistance with the dook rope, a stone fell off the side and crushed him against the tub. | |
| 1901 | October | 7 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Nairn | Wagon trimmer | 50 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was bringing an empty wagon forward to a screen to be filled with Parrot coal, and, to regulate its speed, he went to the brake on the side where there was a retaining wall, and appeared to have been crushed against the wall, and afterwards thrown down among the wheels. The space between the retaining wall and wagon side was 11 inches. | |
| 1901 | October | 14 | Hill of Beath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Wallace | Wagon shunter | 28 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was sitting on the buffer of the leading wagon of a train of empty wagons, being pushed by the locomotive engine to the top end of the pit, and, when he jumped off in centre of road, his foot slipped on a sleeper, and he fell across the rail whereby part of the train passed over him. Death ensued two hours afterwards, The morning was frosty and there was a thin coating of ice on the sleeper. | |
| 1901 | October | 14 | Oakbank (oil shale) | Edinburgh | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | John Lowe | Miner | 51 | Falls of side | Deceased was taking out a stoop in a seam 6 ft. 6 ins. in thickness, and had reduced it to a pillar about 12 ft. square. The left corner had been holed and left ungibbed for three days, when, as the shale did not break, deceased set a gib under it, extended the holing, and bored and charged a shot hole. While drawing the gib preparatory to lighting the shot, the shale suddenly fell from an unseen lype and killed him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | October | 16 | Blair No 2 Pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | James Kilpatrick | Shanksman | 41 | Shaft accidents – things falling from part way down | When engaged repairing the shaft, a stone fell upon the cage, smashing it and precipitating it and the men to the bottom | |
| George Kilpatrick | Shanksman | 37 | |||||||||
| 1901 | October | 21 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Keddie | 25 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were engaged brushing a heading road, and while withdrawing the props he sat under the brushing, when it fell and crushed him. He died from his injuries on March 11, 1902. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1901 | October | 25 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Dow | Pithead worker | 30 | On surface – miscellaneous | Deceased had finished his work, and appears to have gone on to the hoist cage, probably with a view to being lowered to the ground level, and fell off. | |
| 1901 | November | 1 | Tarbrax (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Caledonian Mineral Oil Co Ltd | Charles Rouble | Miner | 32 | Underground by explosives | Deceased, who was a Pole, worked with a fellow countryman in an upset near the face of a level. They had charged seven "yankee" or holing shots, situated at intervals across the working face. Each man lighted three shots and retired to the level; and on hearing the six explosions, deceased returned to the face of the upset to light the seventh shot. He appeared to have been close to it when it exploded, causing injuries which resulted fatally on the same night. The shot, which was said to have caused the accident, was close to one side of the upset, and 2 feet from the adjacent shot. They were charged with gunpowder, and fired by means of gutta-percha covered fuse. | |
| 1901 | November | 2 | Beoch | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | James Wallace | Chair runner | 63 | Haulage – on inclined and engine planes | Crushed in some unexplained manner between the “race” of hutches and the side of haulage road | |
| 1901 | November | 10 | Houldsworth | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | Wm Clark | Winding engineman | 31 | Surface – miscellaneous | When assisting to put rails on the cage at the pit mouth his foot slipped down between the cage and the side of the shaft. He fell on the hutch guard and was fatally injured | |
| 1901 | November | 14 | Craighead No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Peter Thomson | Miner | 26 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | November | 16 | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Rbt. Cuthbertson | pitheadman | 38 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | While riding on footstep of Caledonian Railway Cos locomotive on branch railway he fell off and was run over | |
| 1901 | November | 22 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | John Leslie | Locomotive guard | 17 | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While using a length of wire rope to move wagons on one line by means of the locomotive engine on a parallel line of rails, he was caught between the rope and the leading wagon and severely crushed. | |
| 1901 | November | 25 | Balgonie | Fife | C B Balfour | James Berwick Smart | Roadsman | 46 | Falls of side | Deceased and three other workmen were repairing a main horse road, on the usual idle day, when a large fall took place off the side and crashed through the timbers completely burying him. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Craigend | Lanark | County Coal Co | James Lappin | Boiler fireman | 27 | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | He either jumped or in some unexplained manner fell down the shaft. No one else was at the mine at the time. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Bentrigg | Lanark | Larkhall Collieries Ltd | Thomas Kellighan | Bottomer | 28 | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He appears to have been crossing the cage seat when the cage came down upon him. He was alone at the time. | |
| 1901 | November | 27 | Whistleberry No 2 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Patrick Larkin | Brusher | 40 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at brushing face | |
| 1901 | November | 30 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Moffatt | Miner | 25 | Falls of roof | Deceased was holing his coal when the roof suddenly fell on him. He succumbed to his injuries 16 hours afterwards | |
| 1901 | December | 4 | Dunnikier | Fife | Walter Herd & Sons Ltd | William Reynolds | Miner | 34 | Haulage – on machinery | Deceased and his neighbour were hauling a loaded tub up a dook by means of an ordinary windlass, and when the tub was a short distance up his neighbour thought there was something the matter with the machinery and he let go his handle causing the tub to go back and deceased who was at the opposite handle attempted to escape, but failed to do so, and was struck by the handle as it revolved in the reverse direction. | |
| 1901 | December | 4 | Springhill No 4 Pit | Ayr | Archd. Finnie & Son | Angus Kerr | Pony driver | 60 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | He fell of the front of his “race” of full hutches and was crushed against the side of the road. It was his first day as pony driver. | |
| 1901 | December | 9 | Cornsilloch, No 3 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Robert Livingstone | Miner | 30 | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | On entering their working place 2 ¼ hours after it had been inspected by the fireman, their naked lights ignited firedamp. Another miner was injured | The fifth fatal explosion resulted in the death of two miners and the injury of another. It occurred in Cornsilloch Colliery, which is one of the mines recently transferred to this district. The three miners worked together in a section of Ell Coal, where the stoops are being extracted. Owing to the want of hutches they did not enter their working place until about 2£ hours after the fireman's inspection. When one of them was going up to the working face his naked light ignited gas which the fireman declared had accumulated after he had visited the place when making the usual inspection. Since the explosion the owner has agreed to work out the pillars with safety lamps. |
| Archd. Campbell | Miner | 27 | |||||||||
| 1901 | December | 10 | Cornsilloch, No 2 pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Robert McLean | Repairer | 45 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on horse road while redding a previous fall | |
| 1901 | December | 11 | Loanhead | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Walter Salton | Drawer | 17 | Falls of roof | The roof in a longwall place in a highly inclined seam fell, and swept out some wooden pillars on the rise side of the level and buried deceased, who was assisting the miner in the place to move a hutch. | |
| 1901 | December | 12 | Aucincruive Mossblown No 1 pit | Ayr | Auchincruive Coal Co | Wm Diamond | Miner | 26 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face. His working place was not propped as required by the new Special Rules | |
| 1901 | December | 12 | Dechmont No 2 Pit | Lanark | Archd. Russell | Thomas Tait | Miner | 36 | Haulage – by ropes and chains breaking | While taking a hutch down a “cuddie” brae the chain broke and the “cuddie” ran down upon him | |
| 1901 | December | 16 | Swinhill No 6 pit | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Peter McGowan | Miner | 17 | Shaft accidents – overwinding | When about to descend the shaft from the pithead the engineman started the engine the wrong way and overwound the cage, out of which they fell down the shaft. Another man in the cage escaped | |
| John Donnelly | Miner | 30 | |||||||||
| 1901 | December | 17 | Bothwell Castle No 1 pit | Lanark | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Archd. McDermit | Drawer | 23 | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on drawing road near working face | |
| 1901 | December | 21 | Holytown No 5 Pit | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | David Thomson | Miner | 20 | Haulage – by trams and tubs | While illegally drawing in front of a full hutch down an inclined road it ran him over. | |
| 1901 | December | 23 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co, Ltd | Alexander Ogilvie | Miner | 21 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | Newspaper report - Bothwellhaugh pages |
| 1901 | December | 24 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Innes | 29 | Miner | Other haulage accidents | Deceased was riding on the top of a loaded rake, when he was crushed against the roof. He died from his injuries on 25th February, 1902. | |
| 1901 | December | 25 | Gilbertfield | Lanark | Cambuslang Coal Co Ltd | John McLean | Labourer | 40 | Surface – on railway, sidings or tramways | When leaning upon a gangway railing it gave way, and he fell upon the rails, a distance of 20 feet, and was run over by a waggon | |
| 1901 | December | 27 | Lightshaw No 4 pit | Ayr | Wm. Baird & Co, Ltd | Wm. Campbell | Miner | 33 | Falls of side | Fall of coal | |
| 1901 | December | 30 | Crofthead | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | Walter Bolton | Brusher | 29 | Falls of roof | After firing a shot in brushing the deceased began to take off the loose material, when a stone fell from roof, killing him instantaneously. | |
| 1901 | December | 31 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee & Mossend Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Joseph Caton | Labourer | -- | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While leaving his work he was run over by a train of wagons pushed by a locomotive engine. | |