| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Additional Information | ||
| 1909 | July | 2 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Borthwick Heap | 14 | Haulage-boy | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was detaching a chain from two loaded tubs which were running forward by gravity at a haulage landing. He had forgotten that other two tubs were already standing and his head was caught between the tubs. He was instantly killed. | |
| 1909 | July | 5 | Balgonie | Fife | C B Balfour | William McGraw | 19 | Drawer | Falls of roof | While pushing away a loaded tub from a face, deceased put one foot against a prop supporting the roof, which came out allowing part to fall upon him. | |
| 1909 | July | 7 | Rosehall No 7 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Wm. Walker | 30 | Labourer | On surface – miscellaneous | In pushing a full hutch away from pit mouth, his foot slipped, and he got caught by the descending cage. | |
| 1909 | July | 18 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Harry Williamson | 36 | Oncost | Falls of roof | At a part of an incline dipping 60 degrees, the roof was showing signs of collapsing near the vicinity of a "trouble," and deceased with another workman, named Andrew King, were engaged repairing and making the part secure : they had finished their shift, and were proceeding up the incline, when the roof collapsed, and all three were buried. The latter lay in a recess uninjured, and owing to the dangerous nature of the operations to effects his rescue, twenty-seven hours elapsed before he was released. | |
| David Beattie | 52 | Oncost | |||||||||
| 1909 | July | 19 | Gavieside (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | George Beattie | 44 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was employed to keep the Main Ingoing eye in order, and to see that nothing stopped the rakes of full or empty tubs. A rake had passed up and was just at the top when a coupling hook straightened out and four tubs came back 66 fathoms at 1 in 2 inclination and struck him. He was so severely injured that he died 10 hours later. | |
| 1909 | July | 22 | Eglinton No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thos. Watters | 17 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working face when putting up prop. | |
| 1909 | July | 23 | Bedlay | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thos. McNaught | 14 | Labourer | On surface – by machinery | Caught by a runaway full hutch and pushed into creeper which was unfenced, and it caught him. | |
| 1909 | July | 26 | Over Dalserf No 2 | Lanark | Brand & Co | John Lockhart | 17 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | On returning to a shot of gelignite which was thought to have missed fire it went off on him. He only waited a few minutes. | |
| 1909 | July | 28 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thomas Stenhouse | 62 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased and two others were engaged making room to build side walls near the shaft bottom, when a stone fell upon him. At the time preparations were being made to support the part which fell. | |
| 1909 | July | 30 | Benarty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Whitehead | 15 | Pony-driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was bringing a pony rake out of a level and either triped while walking in front of the tubs, or struck his head on a crown and fell off, while riding on the tubs. He was found dead with his neck jammed between his rake and a prop at the side. | |
| 1909 | August | 3 | Lassodie | Fife | Thos Spowart & Co Ltd | Thomas Anderson | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased knew his roof required more props and had just taken measurement to get one to set up, when a large stone fell and killed him instantly. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1909 | August | 3 | Queenslie No 2 | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | Jas. Paterson | 59 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (1.30pm) Ignition of gas at a hitch in working place. | To follow |
| 1909 | August | 3 | Little Mill No 2 | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Hugh Sloan (junr.) | 16 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place. The prescribed distance between props was exceeded. (Another man injured.) | |
| 1909 | August | 4 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Daniel McMurray | 27 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was holing when coal fell upon him; he died five weeks later from his injuries. There were no sprags up to the face. | |
| 1909 | August | 5 | Glenboig (Fire clay) | Lanark | Glenboig Union Fireclay Co Ltd | Patrick Canavan | 17 | Drawer | Falls of roof | See Report |
To follow |
| William Taylor | 23 | Miner | |||||||||
| William Allan | 34 | Miner | |||||||||
| Joseph Anderson | 35 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | August | 5 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | George McLachlan | 27 | drawer | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | August | 15 | Auchengeich No 2 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. McMahon | 42 | Roadsman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Shock of electricity from fault in cable which he had coiled up in his hand. Was not authorised to handle cable. | To follow |
| 1909 | August | 17 | Bedlay No 1 | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert Wilson | 18 | Bencher | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Race of eight full hutches was being sent down incline. Not being coupled, six ran down into empty race at bottom, and caused two remaining full hutches to run back on Wilson. | |
| 1909 | August | 17 | Giffnock Sandstone Mine | Renfrew | ---- | William Duncan | 25 | Engineman | Metalliferous mines | Caught by shafting or pulley of crushing machinery when inside fence. | |
| 1909 | August | 26 | Bailliesmuir | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Patrick Rafferty | 41 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased and his neighbour lighted three shots, and retired to a safe place. When explosions ceased the former declared that all the shots had gone off and both proceeded back towards the face, and when within 15 yards of the shot holes another explosion occurred, and deceased was killed by the flying debris. One of the shots had "hung fire," as some considerable time elapsed after the first explosions until the fatal one. | |
| 1909 | August | 28 | Wallyford | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | George Bourhill | 17 | Winch engineman | On surface – by machinery | Deceased worked a crab winch used to haul debris to the redd bing. It appears that the engine ''centred," and he got up on top to move the drum and inadvertently put his foot on throttle valve lever allowing full steam to cylinders, and causing the drum to revolve whereby he was thrown over it to the other side and fatally injured. | |
| 1909 | September | 1 | Blackhill No 9 | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Jas. Wark | 16 | Drawer | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (3.30pm) His father on entering his working place ignited gas with naked light. Day fireman had found gas, but failed to conduct the air current to the spot. | To follow |
| 1909 | September | 1 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | George Grant | 53 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged brushing a roadway, when a stone fell and killed him instantly. | |
| 1909 | September | 2 | Parkneuk | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Coal Co Ltd | George Campbell | 22 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased, who had not much experience, had gone into to the working place of the miner who employed him, and had just began to fill a tub when some overhanging coal fell on him and killed him instantaneously. He had been told by the fireman that the coal was not safe. | |
| 1909 | September | 2 | Canderigg Broomfield No 4 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. Plenderleith | 58 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of overhanging stone, under which machine-cut coal had been taken down. | |
| 1909 | September | 3 | Carfin No 6 | Lanark | William Dixon Ltd | Alex. Boyd | 17 | Motor haulageman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He appears to have been reaching beneath the fencing of haulage gearing to wipe something, when he was caught by pinion wheels. | |
| 1909 | September | 3 | Cowdenbeath No 10 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Michael McFarlane | 42 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged with the overman and some others clearing a fall on a main incline. The overman had sounded the roof several times and was satisfied with it. When they were about finished a large stone fell from a height of about 10 feet, and injured McFarlane so badly that he died the same day. | |
| 1909 | September | 5 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | Robert Borland | 20 | Brusher | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | See Report | To follow |
| 1909 | September | 5 | Bardykes | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Archd. Neil | 40 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When letting two full hutches down incline, break-stick failed to control them, and he was struck by upcoming empty hutches. | |
| 1909 | September | 6 | Bardykes | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Andrew Alexander | 38 | Night overman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on self-acting incline while making a manhole. The fall swung the crowns while they were setting a cross crown at mouth of manhole. (Other two men were injured.) | |
| John Smith | 29 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | September | 8 | Auchengeich | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Jas. McCall | 38 | Pit-bottomer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Leg cut by full hutches jamming him against empty hutch while handling it. Blood poisoning resulted. | |
| 1909 | September | 9 | Monkland No 11 | Lanark | Jas Dunlop & Co Ltd | Thos. Landles, senr. | 68 | Screeman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He fell from steps leading from siding to scree table in front of two moving waggons, and was caught by wheel. | |
| 1909 | September | 9 | Gartshore No 2 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Joseph Conolly | 46 | Reddsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While working on the dook he was caught by three empty hutches which somehow got uncoupled from the race. | |
| 1909 | September | 10 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Finlay, sen | 22 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased was putting a loaded tub on to the carriage when the middle finger of his left hand was crushed between the tub and side of carriage : blood poisoning set in and he died fifteen days later. | |
| 1909 | September | 13 | Benarty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Thomson | 47 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was riding up a dook on a rake of tubs when the drawbar of one of the tubs broke, and he was carried by the runaway tubs and crushed by them when they left the rails and overturned. | |
| 1909 | September | 13 | Brucefield | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | William Brown | 27 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged taking off coal holed by a coal cutter, when a stone fell, and striking his head fractured his skull causing death next day. | |
| 1909 | September | 14 | Greenfield No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Francis Slavin | 16 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of side at road-head from an unseen lype. | |
| 1909 | September | 15 | Polmaise No 4 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | John Hilley | 37 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | While he and his neighbour were illegally firing a shot of arkite electrically, his neighbour fired the shot before he retired. Another man was injured. | |
| 1909 | September | 23 | Meadowhead | Lanark | Peter Cairns | Thomas Wilson | 17 | Pony-driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased hauled tubs up a dook by means of a horse in rakes of two to a lye. When near the lye he stopped his horse, uncoupled the tubs, and ran one tub at a time to the lye by hand, he did so on this occasion, and while proceeding with the first tub the second followed after, overtook and crushed him fatally. The second tub should have been spragged, but deceased forgot to do so | |
| 1909 | September | 23 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | Robert Millar | 36 | Pitheadman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While deceased was moving a loaded waggon, another waggon was sent away on the next line of rails, unknown to deceased, and it crushed him causing instant death. | |
| 1909 | September | 27 | Deans (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | Thomas Hare | 40 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased with some others was loading shale into tubs from a bing, and when loaded had to jig them on to the haulage rope, he was jigging a tub and when rope moved it he failed to get clear and his leg was fractured : he died six weeks later. | |
| 1909 | September | 29 | Dechmont No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Jas. McInally | 40 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Overcome by fumes of arkite after 3 shots in a blind pit. | |
| 1909 | October | 2 | Lumphinnans | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Cairns | -- | Bottomer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was uncoupling loaded tubs, when a horse rake collided with the tubs and the fingers of his left hand were crashed and badly bruised. He died from blood poisoning ten days later. | |
| 1909 | October | 2 | St Flannans No 1 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Jas. Linn | 19 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while filling a hutch. | |
| 1909 | October | 4 | Castlecary (Fireclay) | Stirling | John G Stein & Co Ltd | Daniel McLaren | 28 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased was "bottoming" at a mid working, and after the cage arrived, he opened the gate which fences the shaft, and took off the empty tub. Having placed the tub in empty roadway, he got behind the loaded tub and pushed it forward towards the cage, but cage had gone and he and tub were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. The engineman had not pinned the drum brake down and engine moved away. | |
| 1909 | October | 5 | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co Ltd | Wm. Houston | 30 | Reddsman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (10pm) He was sent by overman to redd a fall in airway, when his naked light ignited gas. Place had not been previously inspected. | To follow |
| 1909 | October | 5 | Gardrum | Stirling | Carron Co | Michael McLackie, Junr | 25 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was holing his coal, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | October | 5 | Donibristle | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Marshall | 23 | Shunter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was attempting to get on to the buffer of a waggon for lookout purposes during a shunt, when he slipped and fell and was run over. | |
| 1909 | October | 6 | Lightshaw No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Sloan | 36 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of coal while taking it down. | |
| 1909 | October | 8 | Lindsay | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Wright | 29 | Miner | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | Deceased and a number of other men were on their way in to their working places in the morning, and were travelling down a 1 in 3 Dook, when a rake of empties was pushed over by an unauthorised person at the top. In endeavouring to get into manholes deceased fell and had his skull fractured and two others were slightly injured. It was alleged that they were all riding in the tubs but there was no proof of this at the Fatal Accidents Inquiry. | |
| 1909 | October | 11 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Hugh Boyd | 37 | Sinker | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased and another sinker were descending in the kettle, and when 8 fathoms from the bottom, the kettle struck a beam causing him to be thrown out into the shaft. | Newspaper report |
| 1909 | October | 12 | Canderigg Broomfield No 4 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Albert Cameron | 30 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof at working place while holing. | |
| 1909 | October | 16 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | Duncan Livingstone | 23 | Assistant Manager | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased was ascending on cover of cage, after taking some measurements connected with repairs of the shaft, when he took ill and fell off. | |
| 1909 | October | 18 | Hamilton Palace No 1 | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | John Gallocher | 50 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of brushing when starting a new place. No supports had been set. | Newspaper report - Bothwellhaugh pages |
| 1909 | October | 18 | Arthur | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Frank Curran | 40 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and his brother were securing a bad part of the roof, when it suddenly collapsed, and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1909 | October | 20 | Berryhill No 2 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Hugh Black Ralston | 40 | Reddsman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (12.30pm) Outburst of firedamp. |
To follow |
| Jas. Currie | 32 | Reddsman | |||||||||
| John Anderson | 30 | Miner | |||||||||
| Robert Anderson | 29 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | October | 20 | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Matchell (Pole) | 26 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was "backening" coal to the road, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Nellie | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | William McDermot | 30 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was filling a tub with debris which had been taken from the side of haulage road, when the roof suddenly collapsed, carrying four sets of timber with it, and burying him beneath. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Rosebank | Fife | John Nimmo & Sons Ltd | James Meiklejohn | 59 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was shovelling out coal at his roadhead, when part of the face of the brushing suddenly burst off, and injured him so severely that he died an hour later. | |
| 1909 | October | 22 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Meek | 56 | Miner | Haulage – ropes or chains breaking | A loaded tub was being run on a "gurdy" braes dipping 1 in 3, and when a short distance down the tubs stopped, owing to the chain on the wheel becoming locked. To get the tubs to move the chain was " pumped," which caused an extra strain, and a "false" link gave out and tubs ran away ; deceased was caught at the bottom of the brae and fatally crushed. | |
| 1909 | October | 23 | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Co | Daniel Jenkins | 30 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | Deceased was assisting at a survey on the main haulage road, when a stone fell upon him from the roof. There was a movement on the roof caused by the workings of a seam above. | |
| 1909 | October | 25 | Murdostoun | Lanark | Murdostoun Colliery Co Ltd | Alexander Wotherspoon | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | While deceased and his neighbour were at work, the roof suddenly fell away from between lypes, and killed him. | |
| 1909 | October | 26 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Pottie | 43 | Washery-Engineman | On surface – by machinery | Deceased was oiling the bearings of one of the washery conveying tables while the machinery was going, at a part which was cramped and difficult of access. He was caught and carried several times round the shaft receiving injuries from which he died six days later. | |
| 1909 | November | 1 | Ingliston (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | Edward Tinnie | 31 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was boring a hole for a shot, when the face shale came away suddenly, upon him. The fall carried away the sprags which were up to the face. | |
| 1909 | November | 1 | Rosehall No 3 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Francis Croal | 26 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Fall of roof on road while taking hutch along it. | |
| 1909 | November | 5 | Clyde Backmuir No 2 | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Co Ltd | Kazazes Walookauvger | 23 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Struck by a haulage pulley, placed at a bend getting somehow displaced, or by the rope when the pulley gave way. | |
| 1909 | November | 8 | Polquhairn | Ayr | Polquhairn Coal Co Ltd | James Clark | 38 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (8.30am) Fireman allowed him and others to enter a place before he first cleared out gas which was ignited by naked light. | To follow |
| 1909 | November | 8 | Loganlea | Edinburgh | United Collieries Ltd | Alex Wood | 19 | chain runner | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | November | 10 | Greenfield No 1 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Edward Lusk | 43 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place owing to props not being set. | |
| 1909 | November | 11 | Bannockburn No 3 | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Alex. Ramage | 28 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Returned to a shot of arkite, the fuse of which was thought not to have been kindled. | |
| 1909 | November | 12 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Fisher | 26 | Assistant-Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased was getting the bar of a coal cutter into position, and for that purpose was working the ratchet of the slewing part, when a pinion of the slewing gear broke, and bar came suddenly back the picks caught him inflicting terrible injuries. | |
| 1909 | November | 13 | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co Ltd | David Anderson | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in working place while beneath it knocking out breaker props. | |
| 1909 | November | 16 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Herd | 47 | Contractor | Falls of roof | Deceased was examining a part of his roadway where a bar had fallen away, when the roof collapsed and fell upon him. | |
| 1909 | November | 17 | Portland No 5 | Ayr | Portland Colliery Co Ltd | Leslie Forrest | 40 | Fireman | Falls of roof | Fall of roof in main road while inspecting workings for the day shift. | |
| 1909 | November | 19 | Ross | Lanark | Thomas Barr's Trust | Thos. Robb | 24 | Pitheadman | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Fell from mid-working or cage while ascending shaft. | |
| 1909 | November | 20 | Ponisk, Muirkirk | Ayrshire | George Samson | Injured on 9 January 1901 | Newspaper Report - Muirkirk pages - see under 9 Jan 1901 | ||||
| 1909 | November | 22 | Carronhall | Stirling | Carron Co | Robert Galloway | -- | Shunter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was taking some empty waggons to the screens and in passing some other waggons on another parallel line, he was fatally crushed. There was not sufficient room to pass at the place and evidently deceased had forgotten, as he was well acquainted with the sidings. | |
| 1909 | November | 29 | Shieldmains No 7 | Ayr | A G Moore & Co | Peter Burns | 56 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof while getting coal outside his working place. | |
| 1909 | November | 29 | Loanhead | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | James Hughes | 21 | drawer | Other haulage accidents | To follow | |
| 1909 | December | 8 | Dechmont | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | John Wallace | 39 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Shock from electrical lighting lamp or cable. | To follow |
| 1909 | December | 8 | Whitrigg | Linlithgow | R Forrester & Co Ltd | John Riddoch | 51 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was on his way home, and in walking in front of a rake of tubs appears to have stepped to one side to allow the rake to pass him, and was crushed by tubs: he should have stepped into a manhole. | |
| 1909 | December | 10 | Caprington No 41 | Ayr | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries | Jas. Lennon | 17 | Driver | Miscellaneous underground – irruptions of water | Inflow of surface water into workings near the surface, during the night. | Report |
| David McCabe | 33 | Miner | |||||||||
| Jas. Menzies | 15 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Peter Dorans | 36 | Waterman | |||||||||
| Alex. Clark | 16 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Chas. McSherry | 15 | Drawer | |||||||||
| John Balfour | 25 | Miner | |||||||||
| John Stewart | 17 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Hugh Ramsay | 19 | Waterman | |||||||||
| Henry Graham | 22 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1909 | December | 13 | Brora | Sutherland | John Melville | William Bryden | 61 | Manager | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Died on January 10th.1910 from injuries received by an explosion of gas when making the statutory examination, under General Rule 4 of the: Coal Mines Act, 1887, with a naked light, on the date named. His vest, which had a calico back, was greasy from contact with the oily parts of a pump, caught fire and he was burned about the small of his back. Gas had been seen in the same place about a fortnight before, and in using a, naked light the deceased contravened General Rule 4 (1). The explosion occurred in a heading which was ventilated by means of a brattice ; this brattice was not properly hung, and there were, in consequence, places where it did not touch the roof and thus allowed the ventilating current to escape before reaching the face. It is probable that if the ventilation had been carried up to the face the gas would not have accumulated. | |
| 1909 | December | 14 | Littlemill | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Gavin Clark | 21 | Chain-runner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Jammed against timber by runaway hutch in engine dook. | |
| 1909 | December | 16 | Polmaise Nos 1 & 2 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | John McNaught | 35 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | While working the controller of coal-cutter he got electrocuted when leaning over the machine. | To follow |
| 1909 | December | 20 | Auchenbegg | Lanark | Waddell & Son | John Duffy | 48 | Miner | Falls of side | Fall of coal at coal face, in a close place in stoop and room working. | |
| 1909 | December | 22 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | John Keith | 28 | Miner | Falls of roof | Fall of roof between lypes in working place when engaged propping roof. | |
| 1909 | December | 22 | Dumbreck No 2 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Lizzie Robertson | 18 | Dirtpicker | On surface – by machinery | Clothing got entangled with counter shaft of screen. | |
| 1909 | December | 23 | Rosehall No12 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Chas. Traynor | 40 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Killed by shot of gelignite blowing through from adjoining place. | |
| 1909 | December | 24 | Drum (Fire clay) | Stirling | Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd | Alexander Cook | 26 | Drawer | Falls of side | While engaged breaking up ganister to fill into a tub, a large stone fell off the face and killed him instantaneously. | |
| 1909 | December | 26 | Queenslie | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | John Jollie | 38 | Machineman | Falls of roof | Stone fell from roof when removing "haulage-tree " in machine wall. | |