| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Additional Information | ||
| 1907 | July | 1 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Munro | 44 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While a rake was running on a self-acting incline, a bolt which fixed the brake broke, and the tubs were uncontrolled ; deceased was standing at the top of the incline when he was struck by the empty tubs and killed instantly. | |
| 1907 | July | 2 | Dysart | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd | David Paterson | 28 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased worked in the Dysart Main Coal, which is a very thick seam, and while boring a hole for a shot some overhanging top coal fell upon him, injuring his spine. He died from his injuries 11 months after. | |
| 1907 | July | 4 | Hamilton Palace No 1 | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | James McKane | 19 | Pony driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While walking in front of his pony and a race of full hutches, owing to the want of snibbles he was overtaken by the hutches and crushed against the side of the road. | |
| 1907 | July | 5 | Arthur | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | David Kinlay | 55 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | The locomotive came toward the pit pushing a train of waggons in front, and deceased with another workman was made aware of the approaching train, and came out of the waggons which they had been emptying of "duff," as they were to be moved by same train. As soon as the moving train had "buffed," deceased made to go between the space made by the impetus, and just then the moving train, which had not slacked speed, came up and he was fatally crushed. Deceased was warned not to go between the waggons. | |
| 1907 | July | 6 | Gateside | Dumfries | Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd | Archd. Telfer | 33 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While taking an empty hutch down an inclined mine, in some unexplained manner he was run over by it. | |
| 1907 | July | 7 | Glengarnock No 6 (ironstone) | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Andrew Cooper | 34 | Blacksmith | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | Owing to suspended pipes slipping through a gland the planks supporting them and on which he was standing broke, and he was precipitated down the shaft. | |
| 1907 | July | 8 | Bellfield | Lanark | Wm Barr & Sons | Wm. Robertson | 35 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face of a machine wall. | |
| 1907 | July | 9 | Clydeside | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Alexr. Simpson | 34 | Miner | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Struck or run over by empty waggons being shunted in the siding while apparently attempting to cross the rails. | |
| 1907 | July | 9 | Dykehead | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | George Frame | 25 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof while drawing props. | |
| 1907 | July | 10 | Quarter | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Heron | 62 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While shifting the first of four hutches standing on an incline the other three ran over the stop and crushed him against a post. | |
| 1907 | July | 10 | Oakbank (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | Robert Harper | 44 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was passing out from the face, in order to go to his can, for a charge to fire a shot, when the top shale above suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1907 | July | 19 | Roman Camp (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Paul McDermott | 40 | Drawer | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | In escaping from some pieces of falling shale, he apparently stumbled and received a shock to his system, from which he subsequently died. | |
| 1907 | July | 22 | Cowdenbeath No 10 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Ostler | 18 | Driver | Falls of roof | Deceased and another man, were engaged making an airway, through waste ground, when a large fall occurred, displacing some timber which had been recently set, and burying the three men. Ostler with the assistance of the third man managed to get himself freed, and groped his way in the dark to where a pony stood, it led him to the shaft bottom, where he got help. McGartland died before being extricated, and Ostler died five days later. At the Fatal Accident Inquiry, subsequently held into the circumstances of the accident the jury, very properly, commended the plucky action of Ostler in going for help travelling a distance of 500 yards without a light, although himself fatally injured. | |
| Patrick McGartland | 34 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1907 | July | 22 | Riggonhead | Haddington | Riggonhead Coal Co Ltd | Peter Baird | 37 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased's duties were to take down the coal holed by a coal cutting machine, and while thus engaged a stone fell from the roof causing injury to his spine ; he died 14 days later. | |
| 1907 | July | 23 | Greenfield No 7 | Lanark | Greenfield Coal & Brick Co Ltd | Michael Mullan | 35 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Explosion of firedamp while making his inspection. It was evidently caused by a naked light which he was carrying. | Of the seven fatal explosions, four resulted in the death of firemen, men who were supposed to be capable of looking after their own safety as well as the safety of the workmen. Three of these occurred while the man who lost his life was making his inspection with a naked light instead of a safety lamp, while the fourth was caused by the victim striking a match to relight his safety lamp which had been extinguished by fire-damp while making his inspection. |
| 1907 | July | 24 | Michael | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | George McGillvray | 44 | Shaftsman | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased and his neighbour descended the shaft about 4.30 a.m. and went into the dip side to examine the pumps, and after doing so they came back and found the dip cage in the bottom ; deceased made to cross on to the cage at end of the shaft and just as he did so the cage was raised and he was taken up to a " bunton " 8 feet above and fatally crushed. After deceased and his neighbour descended several cages had been run conveying the firemen, and the cage on which deceased stepped had been signalled away in the usual way unknown to deceased. It was clearly the duty of deceased to signal before he stepped on to the cage. | A shaftsman about to step on the cage without having first signalled, when the cage was raised and he was fatally crushed. Newspaper report |
| 1907 | July | 25 | Clydeside | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Jas. Nolan | 35 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1907 | July | 25 | Sundrum No 3 | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | James Johnstone | 24 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at brushing face while brushing. He inadvertently displaced two props which supported the stone. | |
| 1907 | July | 28 | Over Dalserf No2 | Lanark | Brand & Co | Joseph McLeer | 23 | Brusher | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | He entered a place, seemingly by mistake, in which the fireman had found gas, and which he had instructed the workmen not to enter, and ignited the gas with his naked light. | Another happened to a brusher who with others had been sent to clear away a fall by the fireman who instructed them not to go beyond a certain screen as he had found gas present ; but being a stranger to that part of the pit the deceased evidently, by mistake, somehow went into the accumulation with his naked light. The fireman ought to have personally shown each workman the point beyond which they were not to go, and the manager, who was aware of the state of matters, should have prohibited the use of naked lights. |
| 1907 | July | 29 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Quin | 35 | roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased was repairing a roadway and while passing under an unrepaired part the roof suddenly fell upon him, and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1907 | August | 1 | Crofthead | Linlithgow | Peter Thornton | James Cumming | 54 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was holing his coal when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1907 | August | 3 | Cadder No 17 (ironstone) | Lanark | Carron Co | John McGarry | 51 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While illegally riding on a race of hutches being drawn up a dook he got crushed against the brick wall forming the side of the road. | |
| 1907 | August | 3 | Michael | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | William Thomson | 41 | Brusher | Falls of side | Deceased and his neighbour were engaged following up the coal cutting machine, securing the roof with wood pillars and packing the same with the holings, when the face suddenly burst, and afterwards the roof collapsed, and buried deceased. The section had only been recently opened, and collapse was due to the " first break." | |
| 1907 | August | 7 | Carmuirs | Stirling | Carmuir Coal Co Ltd | James Docherty | 46 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased had taken down some coal, and was measuring the height for a prop, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1907 | August | 9 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Peter Hay | 17 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was passing the foot of a self-acting incline, when he was struck by a runaway tub and injured, which resulted in his death on 18th Nov., 1907. The cause of the runaway was due to the wheel round which the rope passed slipping off the wheel tree, and allowing the whole apparatus to run free. The wheel was secured by a chain wrapped round the wheel tree, and the ends of the chain were nailed to the tree ; the nails came out and chain became loose. | |
| 1907 | August | 10 | Dalmeny (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Dalmeny Oil Co Ltd | George Rintoul | 35 | Repairer | Falls of roof | During the holiday, deceased and several others were engaged heightening the roof at the pit bottom, and while thus engaged a stone fell and fatally crushed him. | |
| 1907 | August | 12 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Brown | 20 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased apparently had withdrawn his sprags, when the coal fell and crushed him against a prop. | |
| 1907 | August | 14 | Fordell | Fife | Countess of Buckinghamshire | Robert M. Morton | 58 | General Manager | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased, and his under manager had been examining the workings of a seam in the shaft, and on arriving back they signalled to be raised to the surface, when all was in readiness they stepped on to the cage and gave the signal, and just then deceased saw that the gate, which was a sliding one, facing the opening was not closed down, and he put out his right foot to press it, when the cage was suddenly raised, and losing his balance he fell off the cage into the shaft. The under manager made an attempt to save him, and caught his jacket, but he was unable to hold him. | The general manager of a colliery went into a seam being opened off the shaft, and on returning stepped on to the cage with his under-manager to be raised to the surface, and after the ascent signal had been given he put out his foot to close the sliding gate that fixed the opening, and just then the cage was raised, and losing his balance he fell over the end of the cage and went down the shaft. |
| 1907 | August | 15 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | James Christie | 20 | Miner | Falls of roof | A tub of a rake running on an inclined plane left the rails and striking some timber, caused the-roof to fall opposite a place of refuge where deceased was, and he was crushed beneath the debris. | |
| 1907 | August | 16 | Minto | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Thomas McLean | 31 | Driver of Coal Cutter | Falls of roof | A coal cutting machine had holed up to a "hitch," and the roof was at once liberated, and a large mass fell upon deceased, and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1907 | August | 22 | Oakley | Fife | Oakley Collieries Ltd | John Reekie | 15 | Assistant Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased's work was to take the empty tubs from the cages and couple them up into rakes, while engaged in this work he slipped on the iron plates at the pit bottom, and fell into the cage seat, and just then the cage descended on him. | By a boy slipping on the pit bottom plates close to the shaft and falling into the cage seat just as cage descended. |
| 1907 | August | 22 | Herdshill | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | George Reid | 61 | Enginekeeper | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | Deceased was employed as engineman at a shaft only used for lowering timber. The shaft is boxed in at the surface up to a higher level. The cage had been lowered to the bottom, and deceased came to the lower level in order to "dug" a tub of debris on to the cage to raise it to the higher level, and opening the door which fenced the shaft he pushed the tub forward forgetting the cage was not there, and he and it were precipitated to the bottom a distance of 46 fathoms. | |
| 1907 | August | 23 | Bothwell Park No2 | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Joseph Vilshinsley | 32 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When travelling along a haulage road with a pick blade in his hand he was passing a stationary race of hutches when it was started and a hutch drove the pick point into his thigh. | |
| 1907 | August | 26 | Neilston No 3 | Stirling | United Collieries Ltd | George McLennan, Junr. | 24 | Chain runner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When riding in front of a full race being drawn up an incline to the surface he seems to have fallen off and got run over by the hutches. | |
| 1907 | August | 28 | Banknock Livingstone Pit | Stirling | Young's Collieries Ltd | James Marshall | 50 | Waggon shifter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | When crossing the rails in front of moving waggons he fell and was run over. | |
| 1907 | August | 28 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame Ltd | William Carberry | 31 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Repairs were being made on an inclined plane, and for the purpose of clearing away the debris, empty tubs were left at various parts of the roadway secured by sprags ; when the tubs were filled, each was lowered by the rope, beginning with the top one, on to the next and coupled ; deceased had apparently forgotten to couple the last tub, and got in front and took out the sprag, and as soon as he did so the tub ran away, pushing him in front and finally running over him. | |
| 1907 | August | 29 | Dysart | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd | John Penman | 45 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was taking down the upper bed of the second working in the Dysart Main Coal seam, when it fell upon him and he was killed instantly. The coal fell away from between two keen parallel lypes which were unseen. | |
| 1907 | August | 30 | North Motherwell | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame Ltd | Hugh McLaren | 64 | Waggon-cleaner | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was leaving one waggon to go into another, when they were set in motion, and he was thrown out and run over. | |
| 1907 | September | 2 | Berryhill No 2 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | David Stevenson | 56 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | While making his morning inspection with a naked light he ignited gas. | Of the seven fatal explosions, four resulted in the death of firemen, men who were supposed to be capable of looking after their own safety as well as the safety of the workmen. Three of these occurred while the man who lost his life was making his inspection with a naked light instead of a safety lamp, while the fourth was caused by the victim striking a match to relight his safety lamp which had been extinguished by fire-damp while making his inspection. |
| 1907 | September | 3 | Herbertshire No 3 | Stirling | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Alexr. McMurdo | 48 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1907 | September | 4 | Auchinraith No 2 | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame Ltd | Jas. McGuiness | 42 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face. | |
| 1907 | September | 4 | Carnock No 1 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | David Jones | 40 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | While illegally carrying compressed gunpowder in his hand while his lamp was on his cap, a spark from his lamp ignited the gunpowder. | |
| 1907 | September | 6 | Dalmeny (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Dalmeny Oil Co Ltd | Thos. G. Sneddon | 52 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Shot holes were bored in the bottom, mid, and top portions of the seam, and the bottom and mid holes were charged with 1 ½ lb. of gunpowder each. Deceased lighted the fuse of the shots, and apparently some delay was caused, and although the fuse of both shots had a light applied, he and his neighbour were not sure if the ''train" had caught, but they both retired to a place of safety ; as soon as one shot exploded both men went back, and when near the face the mid shot went off on them. It was a violation of Additional Special Rule lA to go back on a shot where an attempt had been made to light the fuse. | |
| 1907 | September | 9 | Auchenharvie No 1 | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Wilson Steel | 14 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When coupling a tail haulage rope to a hutch the hutch was started by the main race of hutches catching the hook at the top end of the tail rope, and he was run over. | |
| 1907 | September | 11 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Robert Allan | 30 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was employed to take off and put on tubs in endless rope haulage incline by means of Smallman clips. The haulage rope worked intermittently, and stood for long intervals. Deceased was found quite dead at the foot of the incline with a tub on top of him, which had upset. It is thought that deceased may have fallen asleep during the interval that rope stood, and was in the way of the tubs when the rope started. | |
| 1907 | September | 19 | Riddochhill | Linlithgow | Gavin Paul & Sons Ltd | Henry McDonald | 49 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was wedging down the " tumphy " above the coal when the roof suddenly fell away from some unseen lypes upon him. | |
| 1907 | September | 23 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | William Maxwell | 45 | Attendant on Coal Cutter | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased had fixed some picks into the disc of a coal cutter, and was oiling the parts prior to starting the machine, when the machine started and the picks in the revolving disc caught him, inflicting terrible injuries to which he succumbed three days later. It was expected that the switch on the machine was off, but unknown to anyone it was on, and when current at the gateway was put on the power went direct to the machine and set it in motion. Deceased gave orders to have the current put on at the gateway. |
An accident was caused by a coal-cutting machine at Arniston
Colliery, Edinburgh. The machine in use was of the disc type,
and the motive power used was electricity. Deceased had fixed
some picks in the disc, and afterwards began to oil the bearing
parts, and while doing so the disc began to revolve, and before
he was aware, the picks caught him and caused terrible injuries. It appeals that one of the machinemen was sent to the gate-end switch-box to put on the current, and immediately switched on, the motor was set in motion. The switch on the motor had been left on by the men of the previous shift, unknown to deceased, and no one took the trouble to look as to the position of the switch handle. Deceased took up the duties for the shift, in place of the regular machineman in charge, who failed to turn out to his work. Newspaper report |
| 1907 | September | 26 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | Samuel Berry | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was preparing a rest on the solid coal for an advance crown when the roof suddenly collapsed. He died as the result of his injuries eight months after the accident. | |
| 1907 | September | 28 | Nellie | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | David Donaldson | 44 | Assistant Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | While loading the cage, the tub guard fell, preventing the loaded tubs getting into proper position, and deceased went on to the cage to put matters right, and just then the cage was raised, and he was crushed at the door-heads. The engineman appeared to be at fault in raising the cage before the signal was given. | |
| 1907 | September | 30 | Allanton | Lanark | Wm Barr & Sons | Wm. Martin | 14 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face of machine wall. | |
| 1907 | September | 30 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | James Minors | 27 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased and his neighbour were putting up timber, to secure a bad part of the roof, when it suddenly fell upon them. | Newspaper report |
| 1907 | September | 30 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Patrick Collins | 27 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased had holed his coal for a distance of 10 ft. fully, across the face, and set no sprags, and while continuing to hole further, the coal suddenly fell, and crushed him against a wooden pillar. | |
| 1907 | September | -- | Woodhall No 1 | Lanark | Barr & Higgins | Thos. McGuigan | 33 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Caught by the toothed wheels of a coal-cutting machine which were not fenced. | |
| 1907 | October | 1 | Townhead No 43 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | John McCormic | 33 | Brusher | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | His naked light ignited firedamp. The fireman found but failed to clear out gas in adjoining places. | The last fatal explosion was preceded by another whereby another brusher was injured. The fireman found gas in two working places, and, instead of clearing it out as he ought to have done before admitting the brushers, he sent them to work in adjoining places after prohibiting them from entering the roads where gas was accumulated. Some time after, one of the brushers went into one of the places in which gas was reported, to get a saw, with the result that he ignited the gas and got burnt. In about 20 minutes after this explosion the fireman was entering the place adjoining the one in which the other accumulation of gas had been found to visit the deceased who was working there when a second explosion took place, fatally injuring the brusher and injuring the fireman also. |
| 1907 | October | 2 | Hayhills No2 | Ayr | Hayhills Colliery Co | John Seymour | 18 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof in working place. A shot had displaced several props, and apparently these had not been re-set. | |
| 1907 | October | 7 | Tannochside No 3 | Lanark | Archd. Russell Ltd | Jas. Brodie | 27 | Assistant bottomer | Shaft accidents – things falling into shaft from surface | A piece of coal fell down the shaft, apparently from the surface, and struck him on the head while putting a full hutch on the cage. | |
| 1907 | October | 8 | Allanton | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | William McGowan | 44 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was in front of a drawer, who was pushing a loaded tub outbye when he was overtaken and crushed by the tub, he died from his injuries 23 days later. The drawer was not aware that deceased was in front of him. | |
| 1907 | October | 10 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | James Brown | 61 | Fireman | Falls of roof | A fall had taken place in a roadway to the upper portion of the Dysart Main Coal S earn, and deceased was on the top punching off some loose parts, when more coal fell and striking the crowbar drove it through his body inflicting injuries to which he succumbed in a few hours. | |
| 1907 | October | 12 | Polton | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | William Harper | 26 | Contractor | Falls of side | Deceased was clearing away debris, when the coal suddenly burst over the sprags, and falling on him killed him instantly. | Newspaper report |
| 1907 | October | 14 | Blackrigg | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | John McGoldrich | 24 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was apparently trying to move a waggon partly loaded against a gradient of 1 in 48, by means of a crowbar on the wheel, when it moved back and by some means he fell on the rail and the last wheel rested on his body. | |
| 1907 | October | 15 | Manuelrigg | Stirling | United Collieries Ltd | John Montague | 47 | Waggon-trimmer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | The colliery manager went to the siding where empty waggons were collected, and after putting down the brakes of four waggons, began to run five down toward the coal screen ; the train ran away and collided with three waggons under the screen and sent them forward. Deceased, who was having a meal, at once rose, and running towards the three moving waggons, tried to stop them with a "trig," but fell before them and was run over. The pitheadman ran to his aid and had just time to lift him into the four-foot way and lie down beside him when the runaway train passed over them. | |
| 1907 | October | 15 | Broxburn (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | John McVey | 42 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was pinching off bottom shale, when the roof suddenly collapsed and buried him. | |
| 1907 | October | 18 | Haugh No 1 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Henry Stirling | 65 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Whilst going up a haulage road he was caught by empty hutches released by the rope getting detached from the jiggers. | |
| 1907 | October | 21 | Dunnikier | Fife | Walter Herd & Son Ltd | William Bowman | 55 | Repairer | Falls of side | A room was being made for a motor, in an old roadway, which had fallen a considerable height, and while deceased was filling a tub with debris, a small stone fell off the side and struck him. The injuries were considered very slight, but he succumbed from the effects 16 days later. | |
| 1907 | October | 23 | Dechmont No 2 | Lanark | Archd. Russell Ltd | Robert Anderson | 17 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When travelling down a self-acting incline he was overtaken by the full race and run over. | |
| 1907 | October | 24 | Dysart | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn | Alexander Eadie | 19 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was at work in the first working of the Dysart Main Coal Seam, when the roof coal fell over a large area, and part fell on him and crushed him against a tub, which he was filling at the time. | |
| 1907 | October | 27 | Douglas Park | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | John Murdoch | 50 | Brusher | Falls of side | Fall of roof on road while repairing it. | |
| 1907 | October | 30 | Clyde Colliery, Backmuir No 2 | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Thos. Scholes | 53 | Roads man | Falls of side | Fall of roof on road while repairing it. | ||
| 1907 | October | 30 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Dougray | 45 | Miner | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased worked on the back shift, in a level of a seam being opened out mid-way in the shaft. There were no gates to fence the opening, but a bar was placed across during the fore shift, when no one was in the seam, and the bar was taken off when the back shift commenced and left off during the whole time the shift was at work. At stopping time deceased came from the face with a loaded tub, and evidently thinking the cage was there pushed it into the open shaft, and he and it were precipitated to the bottom a distance of 67 fathoms. | One man was killed by falling from a mid-working : a seam had been broken off from the side of the shaft, and the opening was sufficiently far in to allow of a gate being fixed in position, with indicator to engine-house on surface ; instead of this a bar was placed across the entrance, which was removed at the beginning of the shift and not replaced until the shift was finished, the result being that deceased pushed a loaded tub into the open shaft, and he and it fell to the bottom. |
| 1907 | November | 2 | Redding | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | James Smith | 40 | Machineman for Coal Cutter | Falls of roof | A brushing shot had been fired at the roadhead, which brought down the roof for some distance on one side of the wall; after the debris thus brought down, had been cleared to allow the coal cutter to pass, cutting was again commenced, and shortly after the roof fell upon deceased killing him instantly. The charge of the shot was too heavy and broke the roof across the face, and the fall was due to this cause. | |
| 1907 | November | 6 | Hopetoun (oil shale) | Linlithgow | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co Ltd | John Gow | 60 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The rope of a short "cuddie brae" dipping 1 in 1 1/2 in use for deceased's working place broke, and deceased, instead of waiting until a rope was supplied, attempted to lower a loaded tub to the level by hand, he going in front and his drawer holding on behind ; as might have been expected the tub overpowered them, and ran forward on deceased injuring him so severely that he died three days later. In going in front of the tub deceased contravened one of the Additional Special Rules. | |
| 1907 | November | 6 | Polmaise No 3 & 4 | Stirling | Archd. Russell Ltd | George Davidson | 35 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof at working face of a machine wall. | |
| 1907 | November | 7 | Blairadam | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Ford | 16 | Pony Driver | Other haulage accidents | Deceased was riding on a loaded rake of tubs coming up an engine haulage dook, and at a low part of the roadway his head came in contact with the roof. | |
| 1907 | November | 7 | Earnock No 1 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | John Hunter | 27 | Bencher | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | He was at the bottom of a self-acting incline when the rope broke and he was caught by the runaway full hutches. The rope which had newly been put on was so worn and corroded that it was unfit for use. | |
| 1907 | November | 11 | Lochore | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John McCabe | 42 | Repairer | Falls of side | Deceased was laying rails on main dook road, when a piece of ironstone from the side fell, and striking his head, killed him instantly. | |
| 1907 | November | 13 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Hunter | 40 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was the shot firer, and went to a coal face to fire two shots. The explosive used was Saxonite fired by Bickford's safety igniters. One igniter missed, and it is supposed he attempted to light the fuse by means of a red-hot wire heated at the light of the Davy safety lamp, after he had cut the igniter off the end of fuse, this caused delay, and the other shot which had previously been lighted exploded on him. | |
| 1907 | November | 14 | Dalbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Robert Adamson | 26 | Brusher | Falls of roof | A pump room was being made, and deceased was engaged removing debris in tubs from inside a brick arch, when the arch collapsed, and falling on deceased he was killed instantly. | |
| 1907 | November | 15 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Andrew Agnew | 46 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was shovelling coal which he had just taken down from the face, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. He died from his injuries nine months after the accident. | |
| 1907 | November | 15 | Wilsontown | Lanark | William Dixon Ltd | John Davidson | 56 | Repairer | Falls of side | Deceased and some other workmen were engaged making a recess for the frame of a wheel in connection with haulage, when a large stone fell away from the side and struck him, causing fatal injuries. | |
| 1907 | November | 16 | Blackhill No 9 (ironstone) | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Hugh Gibbin | 22 | Road repairer | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | While handling gelignite and a detonator, in some unexplained manner they exploded. | |
| 1907 | November | 18 | Kepplehill | Lanark | Kepplehill Coal Co Ltd | John Mulvey | 30 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Three shots were charged, and deceased was left to light the fuses : he had lighted two, and apparently was delayed in lighting the third, and the two shots exploded on him before he got out of harm's way. The fuse of the third shot had the appearance as if an attempt had been made to light it: deceased's lamp was found near to the shot, and it seems as if the spitting of the fuse had extinguished his light, and he had stopped the fuse burning with his fingers, and was then moving away in the dark when shots exploded. | |
| 1907 | November | 18 | Govan No 6 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | Ernest Wales | 18 | Labourer | On surface – by machinery | While shovelling coal into conveyer below the pithead scaffold he got caught by unfenced machinery. | |
| 1907 | November | 19 | Auchingeich No 2 | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Terrence Cogger | 30 | Sinker | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | A bolt, suspending to a rope a scaffold on which he was perched, broke, leaving him suspended to the rope. Being unable to hold on he dropped down the shaft. | |
| 1907 | November | 19 | Highhouse | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Munro | 14 | Stone picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | When crossing the rails at the screens he was crushed between waggons. | |
| 1907 | November | 22 | Longrigg | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John Brown | 29 | Miner | Falls of side | While engaged at the coal face some pieces of " fallen " and coal came away and striking his left leg injured the knee; the injury was thought to be trifling, but serious symptoms came on, and he died eleven days after the accident. | |
| 1907 | November | 25 | Coursington | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co Ltd | John Conlin | 14 | Dirt-picker | On surface – by machinery | In order to take away the dirt picked off the travelling tables, a conveyer runs under the floor at right angles to the tables, and a hole 11 1/2 inches by 8 inches is made between the tables, into which the dirt is thrown ; around this hole is fence 9 inches high to protect anyone from getting into the conveyer. Deceased wanted to get a shovel, and instead of going round for it, he reached across the opening and, stumbling, his right foot went down and was caught by the conveyer. | |
| 1907 | December | 2 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | William McLuskie (Pole) | 23 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased and his neighbour were charging a hole with compressed gunpowder in pellets, and while doing so, a spark from his neighbour's lamp, which was in his cap, fell on a pellet as it was being handed to deceased to put into the hole. | |
| 1907 | December | 2 | Neilston No 3 | Stirling | United Collieries Ltd | George Bowe | 44 | Night fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Whilst acting as a chain runner he was sitting in front of a full race being drawn up an incline to the surface when he was apparently caught by a very low crown, thrown off and run over by the hutches. | |
| 1907 | December | 9 | Dalzell & Broomside | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co Ltd | Herbert Williams | 37 | Miner | Falls of roof | A shot was fired in the fast corner, which threw out a large block of coal, and in its course to the waste, it carried away some props supporting the roof. About two hours later deceased went under the roof to examine it, when a fall took place and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1907 | December | 12 | Woodmuir | Edinburgh | United Collieries Ltd | William Thornton | 15 | Dirt-picker | On surface – by machinery | This boy crossed a fence, and his clothing got caught by the shaft of the coal cleaning machinery, and he was fatally injured. | |
| 1907 | December | 12 | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | James Beveridge | 31 | Brusher | Falls of side | The roadway was being widened close to the shaft bottom to make room for a brick wall, when a piece of coal fell off the side upon deceased. | |
| 1907 | December | 13 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Ritchie | 39 | Pump motorman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | See Report | An accident due to this cause [electricity] occurred at Bowhill Colliery, Fife. The system is alternating, with voltage of 500, three phase, and the cable is armoured. In the Lochgelly Splint Coal dook a three throw pump had just been placed, 1,100 yards inbye, and only a few days started prior to the accident. No one saw the accident, and when deceased was discovered he appeared to have been dead for some considerable time. He lay across the sole plate of the motor, and partly under it, and beside him was a piece of iron 18 inches long by 1 1/2 inches broad by 1/2 inch thick ragged and sharp at one end, and on examining the cable at the junction where the separate cores leave the armoured part to join the stator coils of the motor, a puncture was discovered right through the insulation to the upper core, while near the cable was a piece of wooden flooring. It appears that while the motor was in motion deceased attempted to put in some flooring under the cable, and in order to get the flooring in position he had to raise the cable, and for this purpose he took the piece of iron to lever it up, with the result that the sharp end cut through the insulation, making the piece of iron "live" and causing the full current to pass right through him. The motor was properly "earthed" by a separate wire carried back to the armouring on the cable, which cable in turn was " earthed " at various parts between the pump and the shaft. |
| 1907 | December | 16 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Robert Duff | 62 | Miner | Falls of side | While deceased was holing, a piece of coal fell away between two sprags and, striking him on the chest, caused internal injuries from which he died five days afterwards. | |
| 1907 | December | 16 | Haugh No 1 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Linn | 14 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of roof in working place. | |
| 1907 | December | 17 | Kames No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Daniel McVey | 42 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of side on road while enlarging it. He failed to support it with sprags while holing. | |
| 1907 | December | 18 | South Longriggend No 2 | Lanark | James Gemmell | William Dalziel | 30 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | After firing three shots of gelignite with fuse he went back, when a fourth shot, the fuse of which was said not to have kindled, went off on him. It is supposed that the fuse had been kindled by the flame from one of the other shots. | |
| 1907 | December | 19 | Blackhill No 9 (ironstone) | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Charles Connolly | 22 | Drawer | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | When opening a canister containing gunpowder, a spark from his lamp which, contrary to the regulations, he had on his cap, ignited the contents. | |
| 1907 | December | 19 | Polmaise No 4 | Stirling | Archd. Russell Ltd | William Smith | 19 | Haulage engineman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | On taking hold of a switch handle he got a shook of electricity. Apparently the casing had become live. | One man was killed by an electrical shock in Polmaise No. 4 pit. The shaft bottom was lighted by electric incandescent lamps arranged two in series, the current being taken from the power cable, and the conductors were placed inside iron tubes earthed by being connected to the armour of the shaft cable which in turn was connected to the sole-plate of the dynamo on the surface. The electrical supply is alternating, with a voltage of 500 and a periodicity of 50. The deceased and other two men were alone at the pit bottom when they observed electric sparks passing between the tube containing the lamp leads and an iron beam with which it was in contact. Upon observing this, the deceased went to the switch close at hand to cut off the current, and, on touching it, received a shock which caused his death in about 15 minutes. Apparently the iron tube in which the leads were enclosed had become temporarily live, but what caused this, and how the previous state of matters was restored, have not been ascertained. Owing to alterations being carried out at the shaft bottom, the tubing in which the leads were enclosed was not joined directly to the armour of the shaft cable, but was temporarily connected with it by a piece of steel rope. It is evident that there must have been some defect in the earthing arrangement, otherwise the deceased would not have got the shock which caused his death. |
| 1907 | December | 25 | Lanemark Colliery, Rigfoot pit | Ayr | Lanemark Coal Co Ltd | Alexr. Mathieson | 21 | Drawer | Falls of side | Fall of roof on road while clearing away a fall. | |
| 1907 | December | 28 | Gartshore No 11 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | David Liddell | 19 | Bogie man | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When walking down haulage road in front of a race of empty hutches he was run over by five of the hutches which got uncoupled. | Newspaper Report - Dunbartonshire accidents |
| 1907 | December | 29 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Morris | 49 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by underground fires |
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See Main Site for Inspectors report & Newspaper Report |
| William Scott | 52 | Pitwright. | |||||||||
| John Kilpatrick | 44 | Fireman | |||||||||
| 1907 | December | 31 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Walter Scott | 56 | Carter | On surface – miscellaneous | Deceased were filling burning ashes into carts from an ash bing at the colliery, when a slide took place and both were severely burned, and subsequently died. |
In one case two men were filling hot ashes into a cart at an ash bin, when a slip took place and both were so badly burned that death resulted in a few days afterwards. [NB Extra details from 1908 report] |
| Patrick Hanley | 62 | Labourer | |||||||||