| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1910 | July | 1 | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | John McLauchlan | 43 | Miner | Falls of side | He was pinching down coal from the face when some fell suddenly and caught and knocked him against a hutch. When coal is being levered down a hutch should not be left in such a position as to impede a man jumping clear in case of more coal or stone falling than is expected. | |
| 1910 | July | 4 | Lumphinnans No 11 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Pringle | 39 | Miner | Falls of roof | When he was working at the coal face a portion of coal and roof burst off at an invisible slip and struck him on the head fracturing his skull. | |
| 1910 | July | 5 | Meadowbank | Stirling | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Walter Lauder | 20 | Apprentice Engine Fitter | On surface – by machinery | He was working for the contractors who have erected the screening plant and got over a fence to show the man in charge of it how to tighten up the scraper conveyor when it was in motion. When doing so his foot slipped and was caught by the scrapers and he was dragged in and killed. | |
| 1910 | July | 5 | Kaimes No 2 | Ayr | William Baird &Co Ltd | John Williamson | 14 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Crushed between two horse rakes, his own and the preceding one which was standing in the bye. | |
| 1910 | July | 6 | Bentrigg | Lanark | H M McNeill Hamilton | Henry McGechin | 47 | Miner | Falls of roof | When setting a prop under the brushing a large fall of roof occurred knocking him down and caused him to strike his head against some fallen debris. | |
| 1910 | July | 12 | Law No 3 | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Robert Irvine | 29 | Coal Cutting Machine-man | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Caught by revolving bar of machine when ratcheting it in. The floor was dipping 1 in 5 towards the face, and the machine slid down it and caught the deceased, owing to the haulage rope not having been made fast. | |
| 1910 | July | 15 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | William Bullar | 40 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was taking down coal when the roof fell suddenly upon him. It fell at two slips parallel to the coal face and displaced two props. | |
| 1910 | July | 15 | Dalkeith | Edinburgh | A G Moore & Co | Edward Combe | 56 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was working in a place which was removing a stoop of coal, and was just starting a new cut next to the goaf ; the top coal, 12 inches thick, had been left up and was supported by trees, but the prop next to the waste was not set at the end of it, and the portion beyond it fell at a slip or lipe and the crushing of the roof. The piece of coal should have been taken down. | |
| 1910 | July | 15 | Loganlee | Edinburgh | United Collieries Ltd | Peter Stirling | 18 | Picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was assisting to move waggons and using a round prop as a brake stick to put down the brake-rod. When he applied his weight to the outer end the other end flew out from under the spring of the waggon, and he fell in front of the wheels and was run over and fatally injured. | |
| 1910 | July | 16 | Braidhurst No 2 | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Alexander McKenzie | 31 | Fireman | Falls of side | An overman and the deceased were cleaning out a lodgment when a fall came away from the side above the timber and crashed through it. The timber was rotten and afforded no protection and only hid the stone above it from view. | |
| 1910 | July | 25 | Blairenbathie | Kinross | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Peter Downie | 51 | Coal Trimmer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Crushed between two waggons. He had moved one forward on to a sprag, but neglected to pin the brake down of the one behind it, and it followed down. | |
| 1910 | July | 26 | Easter Jaw | Stirling | Carron Co | David Millar | 47 | Miner | MIscellaneous underground – by explosives | Two holes had been drilled and charged with gelignite, and it was intended to light one, and after it exploded the other. The deceased and the man working with him retired, and one of the shots exploded. He returned to light the second shot, but when he was close to it it exploded and severely injured him. Died two days afterwards. It is probable both shots were lighted at the same time. | |
| 1910 | July | 27 | Lochwood No 2 | Lanark | Lochwood Coal Co Ltd | Robert Forsyth | 30 | Engineer and General Repairer | Falls of side | While he and another man were examining and repairing pump rods a piece of stone fell from the side of the shaft above where they were working. The shaft was not lined at the part the stone fell from. | |
| 1910 | July | 28 | Wester Glentore | Lanark | Peter Cairns | Patrick Lamb | 30 | Sinker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | The shaft, which was 26 fathoms deep to the Upper Drumgray seam, was being sunk a further distance of 23 fathoms, and a lodgement was being made at the Upper Drumgray level. One cage was being used running in guides, and as the sinking progressed wooden guides were put in. At the time of the accident the bottom of the shaft was 15 feet below the Upper Drumgray level, and the deceased working there. A loaded hutch was put into the cage and then signalled away by the bottomer ; the engine, which was a single one, had rested on the "centre," and the engineman reversed the engine and lowered the cage, and it caught the deceased and crushed his head against the end of a drill in a hole he was drilling. | |
| 1910 | August | 1 | Arden No 1 | Lanark | Arden Coal Co Ltd | Peter Mulvey | 54 | Miner | Falls of side | He was lying on his left side wedging down coal when the coal in front either struck him and knocked his head against a prop or in trying to get clear he came in contact, with a prop. No one was with him at the time. | |
| 1910 | August | 1 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Peter McEwan | 39 | Bencher | Falls of roof | He was coming up the dook from the second to first bench, when a fall of stone from roof caught and killed him. After the fall a "lipe" was exposed along one side of the road. | |
| 1910 | August | 5 | Bredisholm No 3 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Andrew Fotheringham | 54 | Miner | Falls of side | When working under some top coal which is said to have been supported by a prop, the top coal suddenly fell away and killed him and injured his son who was working with him. | |
| 1910 | August | 6 | Polton | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | David Smith | 41 | Coal Cutting Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Fell on disc of coal cutting machine. | |
| 1910 | August | 6 | Hillhouserigg | Lanark | Baton Collieries Ltd | Patrick Campbell | 23 | Pit Sinker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | The shaft in which this accident occurred, had recently been sunk from the Gas coal to the Mill coal seam, a distance of 48 fathoms. A pump was placed on a scaffold 12 feet above the Mill coal seam, fitted with a hose suction pipe ; the hose was leaking, and the deceased and another sinker went down the shaft and replaced it with another. They were on the cage and were going to the pump scaffold and gave the signal "one," in response to which the cage was taken up to the scaffold. A signal "one " was then given to stop, and the deceased proceeded to get out, but as he was doing so the cage was taken away and he was fatally crushed. The engineman mistook the second signal to take the cage to the surface. | |
| 1910 | August | 9 | Simpsonland | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Edward Thomas | 64 | Miner | Falls of roof | He, along with other miners, was travelling to the shaft at the end of the shift on the main haulage road, and when about 250 yards from the shaft a fall of roof occurred and killed him. | |
| 1910 | August | 12 | Raploch | Lanark | Raploch Coal Co Ltd | Isaih Gough | 41 | Engineer | On surface – sundries | He was working on a temporary scaffold making some alterations to the surface screening plant, when he transferred the weight of his body on to the unsupported end of a plank, and was thrown to the ground, a distance of about 11 feet. | |
| 1910 | August | 13 | Blairenbathie | Kinross | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Wilson | 50 | Miner | Falls of roof | When engaged at the face a small piece of stone fell from the roof and struck him on his back. Died on the 21st. | |
| 1910 | August | 14 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Frank Boyle | 31 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | He was making an inspection on a Sunday afternoon and was carrying both a safety lamp and naked light, and when passing along a road, not far from the face, near the crown of a slight hill, ignited some gas with the naked light, and was burned on his neck, back, hands and face. Died on the 16th. | |
| 1910 | August | 15 | Kinneil | Linlithgow | Kinneil Cannel & Coking Coal Co Ltd | Hugh Bernard | 15 | Screen Attendant | On surface – sundries | The deceased was putting a hutch into the tippler, but did not intend it to turn round, and to prevent its doing so he put his foot on the tippler which had begun to turn round, he was, however, unable to stop it and it lifted him up and caused him to fall over the fence on to the waggon road, 21 feet below. | |
| 1910 | August | 17 | Law No 3 | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | George Cassels | 21 | Coal Cutting Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He was turning the bar into the face when the steering gear broke and the bar flew back and caught him. | |
| 1910 | August | 19 | Wanlockhead (Lead ore) | Dumfries | Wanlockhead Lead Mining Co Ltd | James Slimmon | 24 | Miner | Metalliferous mines – in shafts whilst descending by machinery | He and another man were descending the shaft with some timber and had their lamps with them, but they were not lighted. When the cage got to the 160 fathom level the deceased was found to be missing, and on a search being made he was found two fathoms below the 100 fathoms level severely injured about his legs and other part of the body and died the same day. It is probable he fainted and fell out of the cage. | |
| 1910 | August | 20 | Gilmilnscroft | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Andrew Kerr | 26 | Miner | MIscellaneous underground – by explosives | He was illegally attempting to fire a shot charged with samsonite in a mine to which the Explosives in Coal Mines Order applied with a Bickford's Patent Igniter fuse, when it exploded before he could get away from it, and inflicted fatal injuries. The shot hole was close to the pavement, and he had probably, without being aware of the fact, stepped on the igniter and thus lighted the fuse. It is not known how he became possessed of a detonator. He either illegally brought one to the pit with him or the shot-firer must have dropped one in his place. | To follow |
| 1910 | August | 29 | Lumphinnans No 11 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Allan | 16 | Drawer | Falls of roof | A large stone fell from the roof about 130 yards from the bottom of brae or incline on to the rails. It slid down - the gradient being 1 in 2 - and struck Allan. | |
| 1910 | August | 30 | Blackhill | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | John Hay | 29 | Miner | Falls of roof | When travelling down the face a large fall of stone from the roof occurred and killed him instantly. It fell from a "lipe" which was hidden beneath a thin shell of coal which adheres to the roof stone. | |
| 1910 | September | 2 | Cadzow | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | Andrew McCall | 50 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When coming out at the end of his shift he was fatally injured by a loaded hutch which three men were bringing out with them to the shaft and had allowed to run away from them. | |
| 1910 | September | 3 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Bell | 58 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – overwinding | Nine men, including the deceased, were being raised to the surface in the top deck of a two-decked cage, from the Lochgelly splint seam, when the cage, instead of being stopped at the proper landing place, was taken up to the pulley wheel. Eight of the men jumped out on to the corrugated iron roof of the pit head, and the deceased also attempted to do so, but was caught between the floor of the top deck of the cage and the roof of the pit head and instantly killed. The cause of the accident was that the indicator of the winding engine, on which the engineman depended for knowing the position of the cages in the shaft, did not show it correctly ; this was due to the bolts in the standards having been loosened, and while in this condition the engineman improperly ran the engine. | |
| 1910 | September | 7 | Elphinstone | Haddington | Edinburgh Collieries Ltd | Andrew Crawford | 62 | fireman | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | He attempted to get into a cage at the surface level without a banksman being present, when the engineman, who did not know he was going to, started the cage, and it caught and knocked him into the shaft and he fell to the bottom, a distance of 300 feet. | |
| 1910 | September | 8 | Ellismuir | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Denis McGonigal | 26 | Brusher | Falls of roof | When the deceased was shovelling the debris from a brushing shot to the man working with him, a fall of roof occurred at an unseen "lipe." | |
| 1910 | September | 9 | Chapel | Lanark | Chapel Coal Co Ltd | William Marshall | 65 | Dirt Picker | On surface – sundries | Fell from waggon to ground. Died November 16th. | |
| 1910 | September | 13 | Huntershill (Sandstone) | Lanark | Thomas Gibb & Sons Ltd | John Bradley | 40 | Quarryman | Metalliferous mines – falls of roof | A large fall of roof occurred and instantly killed four of the men, and the fifth died at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, soon after his admission, and two men were also injured | |
| Andrew Raeburn Gibson | 35 | Quarryman | |||||||||
| Allan Gibson McDougall | 38 | Labourer | |||||||||
| Alexander McDonald | 33 | Quarryman | |||||||||
| Patrick Armstrong, | 40 | Quarryman. | |||||||||
| 1910 | September | 13 | Portland | Ayr | Portland Colliery Co Ltd | Martin Shepherd, junr | 16 | Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When walking between his horse and the first tub of a rake of 'tubs he stumbled and fell and the hutches had run on to and killed him. | |
| 1910 | September | 14 | Drumley No 1 | Ayr | George Taylor & Co | James Wallace | 22 | Roadsman | Falls of side | When clearing debris from the side of a stoop in order to enable the next shift of miners to begin to extract the coal a mass of coal fell off the end of the stoop, fell away at an invisible foul " back " and killed him. | |
| 1910 | September | 16 | Fergushill No 28 | Ayr | A Finnie & Son | David Strachen | 59 | Brusher | MIscellaneous underground – by explosives | He lighted a charge of gelignite, and then retired to a place of safety, and hearing the report of an explosion he returned to it, but found when close up to it that it had not exploded, and before he could get away it did so, and he was seriously injured about the chest. Died on October 5th. | |
| 1910 | September | 21 | Broomrigg No 3 | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Lawrie | 18 | Drawer | Falls of roof | A hutch ran too quickly down a heading and displaced a prop put in to stop a hutch from going below the level was upset. The deceased and another man refilled the hutch and were pushing it when the roof fell, and part of it caught Lawrie on the back. | |
| 1910 | September | 21 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Burns | 30 | Hanger-on | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Sitting at the foot of a wheel brae when a runaway hutch came down the incline and struck him, injuring his back and head. Died October 2nd. | |
| 1910 | September | 22 | Glenpark | Lanark | Marshall & Hunter | Robert Brand | 27 | Miner | Falls of roof | A piece of stone rolled out of the waste and displaced a prop, causing a fall of roof which killed him. | |
| 1910 | September | 27 | Kenmuirhill | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | William Scoular | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was taking down coal and liberated a piece of stone above it, which fell upon and fractured his back. | |
| 1910 | September | 27 | Bedlay | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Michael Gordon | 42 | Repairer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | While assisting at an endless rope haulage terminus two hutches which had not been properly snibbled came down and crushed him about the lower part of the body. Died October 21st. | |
| 1910 | September | 30 | Home Farm | Lanark | Hamilton McCulloch & Co Ltd | Thomas Aitken | 38 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He was at work in front of a coal cutting machine when his vest was caught by the haulage rope, and he was drawn into the drum. | |
| 1910 | September | 30 | Starlaw Deans (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | James McDonnell | 26 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was boring a shot hole at the face and the drawer was filling the hutches. The gradient was 1 in 2 ½ and the hutches were resting against a prop ; the prop slipped and the hutches ran forward and crushed him against the face. | |
| 1910 | October | 2 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | Alexander Wallace | 47 | Miner | Falls of roof | Died from the results of injuries received when following his employment on 26th November, 1909, by a fall of head coal. | |
| 1910 | October | 3 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | William Duncan | 60 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was holing the coal when a piece of roof-stone fell from between two joints and struck him on his back. The joints were visible before the stone fell, and the stone should either have been supported or pulled down. | |
| 1910 | October | 5 | Woodside | Lanark | Brand & Co | George Anderson | 25 | Driver | Falls of side | When a horse was pulling four loaded hutches up a " lye " one of the hutches became derailed and collided with the roof supports and displaced them. About 1 ½ cwts. of roof stone, in consequence, fell upon and killed him. | |
| 1910 | October | 6 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Thomas Gorman | 24 | Stone Mine Driver | Falls of roof | A mine was being driven, rising 1 in 5, through a 30 feet up-throw fault which was closely timbered, when a fall occurred and swung out at least ten set of timber. The deceased two men and another were buried, and, although extricated alive, Campbell and Gorman afterwards succumbed to their injuries. | Newspaper report |
| Thomas Campbell | 48 | Stone mine Driver | |||||||||
| 1910 | October | 6 | Burnockhill | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Rae | 50 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | The deceased was taking up some slack in a signal wire, by which signals were transmitted by him to the winding engineman, and to do this, it was necessary to be in the shaft, and while doing so he, without being aware of the fact, gave a signal to the engineman and the cage was lowered on the top of and crushed him very severely. There were pumps working in the shaft and the noise made by them probably prevented his hearing the approach of the cage. | |
| 1910 | October | 12 | Bellfield | Lanark | Wm Barr & Sons (Coalmasters) Ltd | James Greenshields | 41 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was taking a loaded hutch from the coal face when it left the rails and knocked out a prop, and the stone above it fell upon him. | |
| 1910 | October | 13 | Queenslie | Lanark | Steel Company of Scotland Ltd | John Mack | 44 | Machineman | Falls of roof | While engaged driving a coal-cutting machine a stone fell from the roof on to his head. As the roof was apparently good a support had not been set to the roof as should have been done. | |
| 1910 | October | 22 | Carldubs (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | David Marwood | 53 | Miner | Falls of roof | He had undermined the top portion of the seam and bored a hole for the purpose of putting in a shot to blow it down, but before inserting the charge he went under the shale to do a little additional, when it fell and killed him. | |
| 1910 | October | 24 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Timothy Brown | 28 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | A hutch had been pushed to far over some rails ; the hauling rope was attached to it to pull it on again. Deceased was standing partly in front of the hutch, and when the engine took hold the hutch sprang forward and caught him. | |
| 1910 | October | 26 | Foulshiels | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | Joseph Sneddon | 15 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He went down a "cuddie" brae to lift an empty hutch on which had become derailed near meetings and then signalled to the brakesman to start again. He must have forgotten about the loaded train as he was caught by it. | |
| 1910 | October | 29 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Alexander McEwan | 63 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was following a rake of ten full hutches up the haulage road when the first coupling broke and nine hutches ran back and caught him. | |
| 1910 | November | 2 | Daldowie | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | John Muir | 46 | Brusher | Falls of roof | While repairing a main dook road he had fired a shot which did not bring down all the stone. He was pinching it down when it suddenly fell and caught him. | |
| 1910 | November | 4 | Hopetoun | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Quin | 33 | Miner | Falls of side | He was wedging down head coal at road head, which fell before he could get out of the way. He had evidently been working in front instead of at the end of it. | |
| 1910 | November | 5 | Randolph | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd | Walter Robertson | 18 | Miner's Assistant | Falls of side | A shot had been fired and the deceased commenced to fill the coal off it when a piece of overhanging coal which should have been taken down before he commenced to work near it fell and killed him. | |
| 1910 | November | 10 | Leven | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Henderson | 17 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He and other four men were riding down a dook after being told not to do so as there was a fall on the road. As the rake ran into the siding he was found unconscious in a hutch with a fractured skull. It was not quite clear how he had received his injuries. | |
| 1910 | November | 11 | Viewpark No 1 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Ltd | Isaac Greenaway | 16 | Fan-Boy | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | He was employed driving a hand fan to ventilate a level which was being driven beyond an up-through fault of 9 feet in a safety lamp pit. The cause of the explosion is not quite clear, but it is possible that he had fallen asleep, and, owing to the fan being stopped, gas had accumulated and put out his safety lamp, and when he awoke he struck a match which caused the explosion. A lucifer match was found in one of the pockets of his coat afterwards. His safety lamp - an unbonnetted Marsaut - was tested after the explosion and found to be in good order. | |
| 1910 | November | 14 | Muiredge | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | David Honeyman | 58 | Blacksmith | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He attempted to get into a cage at the surface and as he was doing so, it descended, and he was fatally crushed. He had been told to wait until some hutches were raised by the banksman, but had evidently forgotten, and seeing the cage was empty, did not wait until he was told he might get on to the cage. | |
| 1910 | November | 15 | Woodend | Linlithgow | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Peter King | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | When engaged taking down coal, which had been shaken by a shot, a stone fell from the roof without warning on to him. | |
| 1910 | November | 15 | Blantyreferme | Lanark | A G Moore & Co | Michael Devine | 55 | Miner | Falls of roof | When working at the face, a large " pot bottom " fell out of the roof on to his back, without any warning. Died on the 30th. | |
| 1910 | November | 16 | Bellfield | Lanark | Wm Barr & Sons (Coalmasters) Ltd | John Yuile | 51 | Waggon Trimmer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | When taking a waggon down a siding it came in contact with another waggon in an adjoining road, which was foul of the crossing, and he was crushed between them. | |
| 1910 | November | 17 | Skellyton | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | George Davidson | 23 | Assistant Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | When the bar of a coal cutting machine was being swung into the face as soon as the bar touched the coal the machine bounded back and the deceased, who was working the lifting handle, was caught by the leg by the bar and drawn in and killed. | |
| 1910 | November | 18 | Lightshaw | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Clowes | 61 | Pit-head Worker | Shaft accidents – falling into shaft from surface | The automatic gates protecting the shaft at the pit-head level were out of order and the deceased pinned them up. He had emptied a hutch and intended to put it into the cage, but he, for some unexplained reason, pushed it in at the side the cage was not at and he fell with it on to the top of the other cage, a distance of 462 feet. If the gates had been in working order the accident could not have occurred. | |
| 1910 | November | 18 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Lonie | 70 | Waggon Builder | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was trying to open a shed door on a line of rails- on which some waggons were being shunted, and before he could do so the end of the first waggon crashed into it and fatally injured him. | |
| 1910 | November | 22 | Carberry | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Ltd | James Duncan | 34 | Repairer | Falls of roof | When he was repairing a road, the timber he had put up was swung out, and a piece of stone fell and struck him on the back. | |
| 1910 | November | 28 | Holmes | Ayr | Gauchalland Coal Co | Robert Morrison | 30 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was lying holing coal when a fall of overhanging roof stone took place and so severely injured him that he died on December 5th. The stone should have been supported. | |
| 1910 | November | 29 | Earlseat | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | John Mackie | 31 | Miner | Falls of roof | He had a long length of coal holed and standing on sprags, and when the sprags were drawn the face coal fell and liberated the roof above which caught and killed him. He was taking an undue risk both with face and roof coal by drawing too many sprags at one time. | |
| 1910 | November | 30 | Hopetoun No 35 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | James Reid | 34 | Miner | Falls of roof | He appears to have gone into the waste from which the timber had been withdrawn to get shale when the roof collapsed and he was fatally injured. | |
| 1910 | December | 1 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Hugh McConnell | 63 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | A pair of headings had been driven in a new seam beyond a fault to prove it, and then stopped. The manager told the deceased he wanted to go into these places prior to their being restarted, and instructed him to go in and examine them and he would follow him. McConnell went and took his safety lamp and a naked light with him, and the latter ignited some gas which had accumulated beyond a door which had been damaged, and of which he was aware, by some runaway hutches. A canvas screen had been put up beyond the door, as there was not room for double doors, but as it did not reach to the pavement, practically all the air was short circuiting, and none was passing to the faces of the headings, which were about 400 yards in advance of where the door was damaged. Died on the 7th. | |
| 1910 | December | 1 | Loudoun No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert Linn | 29 | Miner | Falls of side | He was holing in a dirt band that runs halfway up the coal seam, when a fall of top coal took place, part of which caught and fatally injured him. The coal had a long sprag gib under it ; if another had been set the accident would probably have been prevented. | |
| 1910 | December | 4 | Lochwood No 1 | Lanark | Lochwood Coal Co Ltd | David Monteith | 49 | Brusher | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | He and another brusher descended the shaft at 10.15 p.m. along with a fireman. After arriving at the "station" the fireman went forward and examined the places beyond it ; after doing so he returned and reported all clear. The two brushers then went in to commence work, which was to brush a branch road. One of the deceased, after taking off his clothes, carried part of his tools in and returned for the remainder, when his naked lights ignited some gas, causing an explosion, whereby both the brushers were severely burned. There was a fault close to, and the gas had been given off at it. The fireman, who had been recently appointed, stated that he examined the road where the explosion occurred, as well as the others, but this does not appear to be so, for if he had he must have discovered the gas. | |
| 1910 | December | 5 | Giffnock | Renfrew | Giffnock Collieries Ltd | Samuel Brown | 30 | Brusher | MIscellaneous underground – by explosives | He was charging a hole with gelignite, and was pushing in the last of 27 cartridges and a detonator into the shot hole with a copper stemmer, when it exploded and killed him. | To follow |
| 1910 | December | 5 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Nathaniel Brown | 29 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When coming out with a loaded rake of hutches he appears to have lost his light and fallen in front of the hutches. He was found under the second hutch. | |
| 1910 | December | 5 | Rosehall No13 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Peter Grant | 16 | Drawer | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | He had placed his lamp behind a switch-board at the shaft bottom, and when getting it out his hand came in contact with the live terminals and he was electrocuted. | |
| 1910 | December | 6 | Ingliston (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | George Allan | 49 | Miner | Falls of side | When engaged in "stooping" operations, about 25 cwts. of shale fell off the face and killed him. He appeared to have attempted to get the shale down and failed, and although it was overhanging went under it and started to take some more stone from under it with a pinch bar when it fell. | |
| 1910 | December | 6 | Ladylands | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | David Hunter | 36 | Pit Sinker | On surface – sundries | On arriving at the mine he was intoxicated and fell into an unfenced hole about four feet in depth. When found he was quite dead. It was night time and his body not discovered till the following morning. | |
| 1910 | December | 7 | Littlemill | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Robert Speir, jun | 19 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Opened the gate at a mid-working in the shaft and pushed forward a loaded hutch into the open shaft; he fell with it a distance of about 105 feet. The only light he had was the one he carried in his cap, and it is possible if a fixed light had been provided he might have seen the cage was not opposite the landing, and so prevented the accident. | |
| 1910 | December | 7 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Thomson | 30 | Miner | Falls of roof | The roof of a dook at a place where it was intended to turn off a level was being supported with iron girders. A prop was being set under a bearing girder when more than 15 tons of roof fell and buried deceased and another man. After three hours hard work they were extricated, but Thomson died on the 10th. | Newspaper Report |
| 1910 | December | 11 | Wellsgreen | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Pratt | 26 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | When a bar coal cutting machine was being taken along the face with the bar out of the coal, the picks in the bar caught his clothing and he was drawn into the bar and killed instantly. | |
| 1910 | December | 13 | Craig No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Andrew W. Brown | 41 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | It appears that the deceased had asked the fireman for rails to put down in his working place and was told that some were being sent to him ; he did not wait, but went through a stopping made of screen cloth, which had "No road " chalked on it, into a place which had been stopped for three months in search of some with his naked light and ignited some gas. Died on December 15th. | |
| 1910 | December | 14 | Clyde | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | James Calder | 29 | Pony Driver | Falls of roof | He was driving a pony with a loaded hutch from the working face when the hutch left the rails and collided with and displaced a prop which allowed a quantity of small stones to fall on and suffocate him. | |
| 1910 | December | 15 | Polmaise No 3 | Stirling | Archibald Russell Ltd | John Anderson | 34 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – suffocation by natural gases | He and another man were engaged removing a face of stone on the long wall face which was impeding the ventilation. They were unable to remove a large stone from the intake side and therefore proceeded to the return side of the face, and while there their lamps were extinguished by an accumulation of fire-damp. In attempting to get out Anderson missed the road head and got further into the accumulation of fire-damp and was suffocated. The other man fortunately came in contact with the rope working a self-acting incline and was thereby enabled to get out. | To follow |
| 1910 | December | 16 | Dechmont | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Hugh McGuigan | 18 | Miner | Falls of side | He was filling a hutch at the face when a piece of stone fell from the side and killed him. | |
| 1910 | December | 16 | Loudoun No 3 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Grier | 19 | Blind Pit Brakesman | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | He had lowered a cage down the blind pit a distance of 36 yards and pinned down the brake when another full hutch was brought out, which became derailed. He assisted to get it on, and, evidently forgetting the cage was at the bottom of the shaft, he pushed the hutch against the safety gates, which gave way, and he and it fell to the bottom of the shaft. | |
| 1910 | December | 17 | Portland | Ayr | Portland Colliery Co Ltd | John Jamieson | 58 | Roadsman | Falls of roof | When on his way to the shaft at the end of the shift a fall of stone occurred without any warning from the roof of the travelling way. Died two hours afterwards. | |
| 1910 | December | 19 | Polmaise No 4 | Stirling | Archd. Russell Ltd | Patrick Kaney | 20 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When drawing on a "cuddy " road the wheel tree broke and the balance bogie ran back and fatally injured him. Died. | |
| 1910 | December | 22 | Newton | Lanark | Jas Dunlop & Co Ltd | James Moore | 47 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | A miner was charging a hole with stowite with the shaft of a hammer, and evidently using considerable force, when the charge exploded. Died the following day. | |
| 1910 | December | 23 | Killochan | Ayr | Killochan Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Hodge | 47 | Miner | Falls of side | He was on his knees taking down coal when it fell away at a "back" which was not visible before the fall took place. | |
| 1910 | December | 27 | Batonrigg | Lanark | Baton Collieries Ltd | Peter Shields | 54 | Miner | Falls of roof | A large fall of stone took place in a coal cutting face at an exposed lipe or slip. The roof is strong sandstone and it should have been supported close to and on both sides of the lipe. | |
| 1910 | December | 28 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Michael Hughes | 50 | Miner | Falls of side | When he was working at the face the coal suddenly burst off and overrode the sprags set to support it. | |
| 1910 | December | 28 | Starlaw Deans No 3 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | William Jack | 28 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | These men were stooping or removing pillars alongside a fault and a certain area of oil shale had been taken out and the roof allowed to fall in the waste. A miner named Robert Kerr wished to fire a shot in a pillar, went partly up a fall in the waste to see how thick the rib of the remaining portion of the pillar was, when his naked light in his cap ignited fire-damp which had been allowed to accumulate, severely burning himself, the deceased, David Kerr, who was close to him and William Jack who was working at a pillar at the other end of the waste 120 feet away. David Kerr died on December 31st and William Jack on January 2nd. | |
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| 1910 | December | 29 | Barglachan No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alexander Frazer | 38 | Miner | Falls of roof | A fall of stone occurred from between a fault and lipe or slip in his working place and killed him instantly. | |
| 1910 | December | 31 | Hallside | Lanark | Jas Dunlop & Co Ltd | Robert Gillespie | 34 | Jobber | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | A shot charged with stowite was being fired with a patent igniter fuse, and the miner nipped the igniter, but thought the fuse had not been lighted, and he was nipping it a second time when the shot exploded and severely injured the deceased about the head. | To follow |
| 1910 | December | 31 | Dunnikier | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Robertson | 70 | Pump Attendant | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased started an underground pump with both the column and bye-pass valves closed, and was opening the bye-pass when the pump took hold of the water, and this having no outlet burst the outlet valve next to the main column, and the water at a high pressure hit him and knocked him against the stand of the controller, causing a large wound at the base of the skull. | |