| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1913 | July | 1 | Ayr, No 9 Pit, Enterkine | Ayr | George Taylor & Co | Charles Robertson | 35 | Brusher | Falls of roof | He was employed along with another man stowing, brushing and making a pack in a long-wall face. To enable them to get the work done easier, deceased knocked out some props without replacing them by others; the roof was lipey and a large stone fell on him, injuring him severely. He died on 7th. | |
| 1913 | July | 2 | East Parkhead No 1 | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | William Aitchison | 26 | Assistant Pony Driver | Falls of roof | Deceased and another workman were engaged clearing away some debris which had fallen from the roof, when a second fall took place, and he was struck by one of the falling stones and fatally injured. | Newspaper report- Bothwell pages |
| 1913 | July | 4 | Wishaw, Heathery Pit | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd | John Tweedie | 24 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | He had drilled and cleaned a shot hole, and taken the powder out of his tin to make up a charge when a spark from the lamp on his cap ignited the powder, and he was burned on his hands and forearms. He succumbed to his injuries on the 15th July. | |
| 1913 | July | 5 | Waterloo | Lanark | John Leggat & Sons | James Berry | 15 | Dirt Picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Four loaded wagons were standing under the screens against triggers or chocks. Deceased knocked out the triggers from under the wheels and was attempting to lower them down a road, dipping 1 in 50, by means of the brake on the first wagon, when he found he could not control them, and he picked up a prop which was lying near and pushed it in between the spokes of the front wheel of the first wagon, with the result that when it came against, the grease box the end of the prop struck and knocked him across the rail, and the last wheel of the first wagon ran over and killed him. He had been repeatedly warned that he must not touch the wagons, and that the Coal Mines Act did not allow him to move them. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1913 | July | 5 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | William Nicol | 17 | Apprentice Electrician | On surface – by machinery | Deceased and another boy were on the cage of a hoist used principally to raise material from the ground level to the pithead level, and after starting the cage he failed to bring back his arm quick enough and it was crushed between the moving cage side and the cross beam of the framework of the hoist. He died six days later from his injuries. Deceased knew it was against orders to ride on the cage, and at the time of the accident he wished to get quickly to the pithead level to fix a cable for lighting purposes. | To follow |
| 1913 | July | 15 | Glencleland | James Hill Jack | Not listed (possibly natural causes) | Newspaper report | |||||
| 1913 | July | 16 | Gateside | Lanark | Flemington Coal Co Ltd | James Morton | 40 | Assistant Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased was at work on a coal cutting machine, when he was caught by the revolving disc and drawn in to the face by the picks. It was thought he had attempted to take out a block of wood which had become entangled in the disc, and his arm was caught. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | July | 17 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | James Doyle | 21 | Motorman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Deceased was in charge of a motor haulage and left his room, for what purpose was not discovered. He went into a motor pump room and took hold of an exposed terminal wire and received a fatal shock. The exposed terminal wire was part of a contrivance to switch off the current and stop the pump when the water in the lodgment reached a certain depth. The switch was inside an iron box which had a cover fixed on by screws; some person had taken off this cover and left the terminal open and exposed, and deceased came into contact with it. The voltage was 440 alternating current. | To follow |
| 1913 | July | 18 | Bankpark | Haddington | Bankpark Coal Co | John D. Aitken | 59 | Labourer | Shaft accidents – ropes or chains breaking | When they were ascending to the surface in the upcast shaft, the rope broke and the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 46 fathoms. A "hedgehog" had been cut out of this rope two days before the accident, and, although the rope was not much more than a year old, parts of it after the accident appeared completely destroyed by rust. The rope does not appear to have been regularly examined, greased or rehosed. |
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| John Gardner | 56 | Engineer | |||||||||
| 1913 | July | 19 | Fauldhead No 3 | Lanark | Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd | William Wright | 35 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | He and his neighbour were lighting the fuses of two shots in the same place and at the same time, but when one had succeeded in doing so the other thought he had not lighted his. They retired until the charge exploded and then returned immediately to light the second shot. Deceased was close to the second shot when it exploded and injured him so severely that he died in about half an hour. The cotton of the fuse must have ignited unknown to him and singed till it lighted the powder train. |
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| 1913 | July | 19 | Auchinraith | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame Ltd | James Duddy | 42 | Shankman | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased, with three other workmen, was engaged in the shaft, taking off broken plates on pump rods. He had occasion to step on to a "bunton" which gave way under him, and he was precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 113 fathoms. A racking, which kept the bunton in its position had, through some cause unknown, come off. | |
| 1913 | July | 30 | Neilsland No 2 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Edward Mitchell | 28 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was building and stowing debris made by a shot in the brushing, when a stone fell upon him. He worked alone, and was discovered under the stone, shortly after it fell, quite dead. The roof was composed of strong sandstone, and the stone had fallen away from an unseen "dry" and in its fall displaced four props which were supporting it. | Newspaper Report - Hamilton pages |
| 1913 | July | 31 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | George Waugh | 74 | Saw Miller | On surface – by machinery | He was engaged splitting a 4 feet prop at the saw mill and had cut it for a distance of 2 feet 7 inches when the saw met a knot, he withdrew the prop and in re-inserting it again he had missed the opening, and after the saw had cut a new opening 1 inch deep for some distance it threw out the prop, which struck him. There was a guard over the saw, but it could not possibly prevent the prop from being thrown out. | |
| 1913 | July | 31 | Minto No 2 | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Daniel Mullen | 28 | Brusher | Falls of roof | He was at work at the face of the brushing, when the full thickness of brushing on the high side of the roadway for a length back along the roadway of 34 feet and a breadth up to a cutting of 22 feet rolled forward. He was squeezed between two stones and died before he could be released. | |
| 1913 | August | 3 | Cadder No 15 | Lanark | Carron Co | Patrick Regan | 32 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by underground fires | The fire took place on the main haulage road at a part where there was an electric switch room, a telephone space and a cabin. The smell of fire was first discovered underground about 6 o'clock, and the men on the shift were warned by the deceased fireman, Charles Reilly. Three of the workmen in No. 1 Machine Section escaped by travelling the airway and reaching No. 17 shaft, which was the outlet, but the others, except one man (M. McDonald), who was found on a roadway in No. 2 Machine Section alive, perished on their way to the second shaft by the smoke and foul gases. The fire was discovered by the night fireman, who descended No. 15 Pit about 8 o'clock, and he with some others endeavoured to put it out, and being unsuccessful he raised the alarm. The Managers of both Collieries decided at once to reverse the air current, and this was done by turning on a steam jet at No. 15 Pit and stopping the fan at No. 17 Pit. Rescue parties were at once formed and proceeded towards the workings of No. 15 Pit, and the work of reaching the bodies was prosecuted with alacrity and care, and the pit was cleared by midday on the 4th. The actual cause of the fire will never be known as all the evidence was totally destroyed by the fire, and the roof at the seat was so badly fallen that it was impossible to penetrate through the fallen material without great risk of accident. | Newspaper Report - Cadder page |
| Thomas Holland | 28 | Gummer | |||||||||
| Patrick Darroch | 19 | Brusher | |||||||||
| Charles Reilly | 35 | Fireman | |||||||||
| Alexander McMillan | 54 | Machineman | |||||||||
| Cuthbert Bell | 32 | Machineman | |||||||||
| Hugh Andersen | 17 | Bencher | |||||||||
| George Harvey | 32 | Brusher | |||||||||
| John Brown | 19 | Hole Borer | |||||||||
| George Davidson | 21 | Roadsman | |||||||||
| William Ramsay | 26 | Roadsman | |||||||||
| Hugh McCann | 37 | Hand Pumper | |||||||||
| Patrick Duffin | 34 | Brusher | |||||||||
| James Flynn | 46 | Machineman | |||||||||
| Owen McAloon | 17 | Pony Driver | |||||||||
| George McMillan | 29 | Strapper | |||||||||
| Charles Armstrong | 24 | Drawer | |||||||||
| Robert Ramsay | 30 | Roadsman | |||||||||
| William Brown | 17 | Hole Borer | |||||||||
| John Worthington | 28 | Reddsman | |||||||||
| Alexander Brown | 15 | Pumper | |||||||||
| Andrew Dunbar | 20 | Drawer | |||||||||
| 1913 | August | 3 | Tofts No 2 Shaft | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Kelly | 50 | Sinker | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased, along with another sinker and a chargeman, was on an open, hanging and moveable scaffold preparing to fix wall plates to the timber of the shaft. The scaffold was being lowered with the men on it, when either the muzzle pin at the junction of the chains or a corner of the scaffold caught the timber of the shaft and then jerked free, causing the scaffold to oscillate violently. Deceased had not hold of the chains, he was thrown off and fell to the shaft bottom, and was so severely injured that he died ten minutes later. | |
| 1913 | August | 5 | Carronhall William Pit | Stirling | Carron Co | Timothy Connell | 53 | Iron pipe worker | On surface – sundries | He was coupling up the steam connections to a steam hoist, when a plank fell from the top of the hoist and knocked him to the ground. It is not certain how the plank came to fall. Died 3rd September. | |
| 1913 | August | 7 | Giffnock | Renfrew | Giffnock Collieries Ltd | Alexander Smith | 32 | Assistant Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He was engaged replacing the blunt picks on the disc of a coal cutter with sharp ones, and when the disc began to revolve, so that the part under the holing, where the blunt picks were, should be brought outside, the picks apparently struck the coal and the machine rebounded, causing the end next where deceased was to strike him and throw him on to the disc, which drew him to the coal and inflicted terrible injuries, from which he died three hours later. |
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| 1913 | August | 7 | Fergushill No 22 | Ayr | A Finnie & Son | Andrew Allardyce | 46 | Deputy Fireman | Explosions of fire damp | (7.30am) They were both employed clearing up a fall and setting timber at the entrance to a place which had been driven into faulty ground, for a distance of more than 250 ft., and which was ventilated by means of brattice cloth, The fall had broken down the brattice, and the place, in consequence, had been standing unventilated for a week. On the morning of the accident, the men, who worked with naked lights, for some reason went into the unventilated place and ignited gas, which exploded and killed Allardyce and burned Galone so severely that he died two days later. The men ought not to have gone into such a place, and Allardyce, at any rate, must have had some idea of what was likely to occur as he was spare fireman for the Pit. The fireman had neglected to erect or have erected a fence just beyond where the men were working to prevent them inadvertently entering' the place. |
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| Hugh Galone | 28 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1913 | August | 7 | Roman Camp No 3 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | John Walker | 24 | Haulage Hand | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He had entered a cut-chain brae to find the cause of a stoppage, and was caught by a runaway full hutch. The hutch had been off the rails and became uncoupled as the men were lifting it on again. | |
| 1913 | August | 8 | Niddrie No 13 | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Hollerin | 26 | Miner | Falls of side | He was working in the long wall face of a highly inclined seam, and the coal and stone above were undercut and overhanging. He was preparing to set a prop under the coal in order that he could pull down the stone safely. He sounded the stone and thought it safe, but a ton of it fell upon and so severely injured him that he died on January 21st, 1914. | |
| 1913 | August | 15 | Greenrigg | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | John Watson | 50 | Coal Cutting Machine Driver | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He had finished his cut and was leaning over the machine to slacken the haulage rope off, when the hook, by which it was attached to machine, broke and hit him on the face. He died on 17th. | |
| 1913 | August | 15 | Howmuir | Lanark | Auchinlea Coal Co | Walter Neilson | 53 | Labourer | On surface – sundries | Deceased and another workman were on the. top of a dross hopper, spreading the dross, when it collapsed, and in falling one of the wooden beams struck and killed him instantaneously. The cause of the collapse was due to a wooden cross supporting the hopper giving way. A close examination showed that dry rot had set in right across the beam longitudinally, although outwardly it appeared all right. From the position in which the beam was set it should have held a safe load of 30 tons, and the total weight never exceeded eight tons. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | August | 21/22 | Whitrigg No 2 | Linlithgow | R Forrester & Co Ltd | William Kennedy | 47 | Fireman | Other haulage accidents | He was pushing a hutch when his foot slipped and he strained his abdomen. Hernia resulted and while being operated on for this he died at the Glasgow Infirmary. | |
| 1913 | August | 24 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Black | 50 | Labourer | On surface – sundries | He was tipping ashes with another man on the dirt bing when a portion of the ashes broke away, and he rolled to the foot of the bing, sustaining very severe burns. He died about 1 ½ hours later. | |
| 1913 | August | 26 | Minto | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | William Smith | 26 | Wagon Shunter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | The deceased was lowering down six full wagons to attach to four others standing at the bottom end of the siding, and at the last moment tried to run between them, with the result that he was caught and fatally crushed. | |
| 1913 | August | 28 | Law No 3 | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Samuel Wallace | 32 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | The deceased and another man were attempting to draw a coal cutting machine up the face by its own power without the disc cutting. The revolving disc caught the coal, twisting the machine partly round, and Wallace was knocked on to the picks and badly injured. He died about two hours later. |
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| 1913 | September | 1 | Blairmuckhill | Lanark | A & G Anderson | Samuel Kennedy | fireman | Falls of roof | He was waiting at the face for a coal-cutter to finish its cut, when a stone fell from the roof, killing him on the spot. | ||
| 1913 | September | 2 | Newton No 1 | Lanark | Dunlop & Co Ltd | John Stewart | 50 | Miner | Falls of side | The deceased, after removing the gibs from a length of undercut face, recommenced to undercut, when the coal fell on to him. He committed a breach of Section 50 (4). | To follow |
| 1913 | September | 4 | Dechmont No 2 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Vladizlov Alisneviez | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased, who had been out at the roadhead, was returning to the working face, and when close to it a fall of roof took place at unknown and invisible lypes and caught and killed him. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | September | 5 | Darngavil No 2 Pit, Greyrigg | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | James Scobbie | 59 | Pithead Labourer | Shaft accidents – falling from surface | Deceased was engaged putting tubs of dross on to the cage at the low scaffold to be raised by the winding engineman to the upper scaffold, 18 feet above. He drew forward a loaded tub, opened the gate when the cage was not at the level, and pushing the tub forward fell into the shaft with it to the bottom, a distance of 46 fathoms. | |
| 1913 | September | 8 | Donibristle | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Blackstock | 58 | Bricklayer's Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was crossing the colliery siding with an empty hod on his shoulder to get some bricks, and as he stepped out from behind a full wagon was knocked down by a train of empty wagons and run over. He died on 10th September. | Newspaper report - Beath pages |
| 1913 | September | 9 | Broomrigg No 2 | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | James Waugh | 34 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | James Waugh, 34, Fireman. When laying out the haulage rope of an electrically driven coal cutter the current was switched on to the machine, and through defective insulation the machine became alive. The earthing system to some water pipes was not sufficient to deal with the leakage, and deceased was killed on the spot. Several other men also received shocks. | To follow |
| 1913 | September | 16 | Banknock, Cannerton Pit | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Tripney | 22 | Miner | Falls of side | He was holing a 2 feet 9 inch seam, rising 1 in 4, when a piece of coal 8 ½ feet by 2 ¾ feet by 1 ½ feet, which he had holed fell away at a joint and crushed him to death. As there was 11 feet of holed, unspragged coal next to the coal which fell, and no signs of sprags under the fallen coal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that no sprags were set. | To follow |
| 1913 | September | 17 | Wilsontown No 3 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | Cornelius O'Bryne | 28 | Brusher | Falls of roof | He had just knocked out a tree under the end of a strap supporting the roof at a roadhead between two greasy lypes, with a mash hammer, as he was intending to blast down the roof in order to brush the road. The roof fell at once, however, between the lypes for a considerable length, killing him instantly. | To follow |
| 1913 | September | 17 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Sharp | 56 | Wagon Setter | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He stepped out from behind the screens on to the running line just as a locomotive was passing. He was knocked down and sustained such severe injuries that he died six days later. He was very deaf. | To follow |
| 1913 | September | 23 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | John Smith | 47 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was taking down coal, and when it was ready to fall he stepped back to a position in which he thought he would he clear. The coal as it fell displaced a long prop he had set up the previous clay, and the end of it struck him violently on the upper part of the abdomen. It was not thought he was seriously injured, but he afterwards had to be removed to the infirmary and died next day. | Newspaper report - Bothwellhaugh pages |
| 1913 | September | 23 | Baads No 42 (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | Patrick Rennie | 32 | Brusher | Falls of roof | He was engaged in brushing a main road when he was fatally crushed by a stone which fell away from the face of the newly exposed brushing. He had previously attempted to bring down the stone with a pinch-bar, but no impression appeared to have been then made on it, and he, therefore, thought it was safe. | |
| 1913 | October | 1 | Auchincruive | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Denis Nuson | 20 | Surface Worker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He was assisting to adjust empty tubs on cage when the cage suddenly descended, and he was thrown into the shaft and crushed between the cage and the scaffold at the mouth of the shaft. The engineman apparently went away without having received the signal from the surface. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 4 | Cadzow | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | John Higgins | 20 | Driver | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | Deceased attached a horse to a bogie in which were the picks of the coal cutters. He proceeded on the haulage way until he reached the top of a stone mine where he unhooked the horse. The stone mine dips 1 in 9, and he appears to have allowed the bogie, on which he and another workman sat, to run at a rapid rate, and, on reaching a bend of the road, on which were bevelled pulleys, the shears struck one of them causing the bogie to leave the rails, and pitching both men out. Deceased seems either to have been caught by the handle of the brake or the shears as he pitched forward, and was fatally injured. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 5 | Dysart, Frances Pit | Fife | Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries Ltd | James Somerville | 20 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp | (1.15pm) These men were working in an area where safety lamps only were allowed. They were told by the fireman that the heading next to their level had gas in it, and was marked dangerous, and they were not to go into it. They gave up some matches and cigarettes to the fireman at the lamp station. They must have gone to the place where the gas was and begun to work at once, and shortly after commenced to smoke with the result that a large body of firedamp was exploded which burned them very severely. Cigarettes and matches were found in the place after the explosion as well as the electric lamps they were working with. Some matches and cigarettes were found concealed in a cap lying at the face. The coal in the heading was more easily worked than that in the level. The fireman had contented himself with writing a notice as he could not easily find a fence for the road. |
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| David Duncan | 21 | Miner | |||||||||
| Alexander Suttie | 31 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1913 | October | 9 | East Plean No 4 | Stirling | Plean Colliery Co Ltd | John Forsyth | 23 | haulageman | Falls of roof | He was assisting in cleaning up a fall of roof, when a stone fell from the roof, at the edge of the cavity caused by the first fall, which had not been secured, and killed him. A second man was seriously and two others slightly injured. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 10 | Simpsonland No 2 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | John McErlain | 30 | Brusher | Falls of roof | The deceased was crushed by a large stone which fell from the side of the road. After brushing had been done and the breakers taken out, an attempt had been made to remove this stone which fell but proved futile. He recommenced work under it without resetting the trees. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 13 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | James Lally | 40 | Surface Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was standing on a gangway near the washery, when a runaway bogie from the refuse bing came down, and striking another bogie caused it to topple over and crush him against the railing of the gangway. The bogie which ran away was from the top of the incline leading to the refuse bing, and the cause of it getting away was the man in charge failing to attach the haulage rope to it. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 22 | Auchenharvie, Ardeer Pits | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Francis McGhee | 30 | Shaftsman | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased was descending a pumping shaft with another man, and was standing on the edge of the kettle; on moving round the kettle edge to get better to the signal wire he slipped, fell to the bottom and was killed. | |
| 1913 | October | 22 | Niddrie No 12 | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | George Campbell | 22 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | A miner had bored a hole 3 feet long into the coal in the middle of a place next to the roof in a highly-inclined seam, and he was charging it with his naked light in his cap, and was reaching over for his stemmer, which was lying on the opposite side of the place, when his light caught the explosive and exploded it. He was badly burned and fell part of the way down the steep road. He died two days later. | |
| 1913 | October | 24 | Shotts, Calderhead Pit | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Benjamin Skelly | 26 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He was setting a prop, and kneeling 4 feet behind the disc of a coal cutting machine, when he accidentally put out his foot and it was caught by the revolving disc. He died of shock a few hours afterwards. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 25 | Auchengeich No 1 | Lanark | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Robert Boyd | 55 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was engaged throwing coal to the road when suddenly the roof fell and he was killed instantaneously. | |
| 1913 | October | 29 | Gilbertfield No 1 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | William Cunningham | 26 | Cousieman | Other haulage accidents | Deceased, whilst attempting to prevent a hutch from running on to the landing plate, stumbled and fell; his neck coming into violent contact with the taut cousie rope caused instant strangulation. He was himself somewhat to blame for failing to replace the block on the level after he removed the last load. | |
| 1913 | October | 29 | Auchenbegg | Lanark | Waddell & Son | Samuel Wilson | 32 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was illegally distributing detonators to the miners at the pit bottom in the Six Feet seam. He started with a box containing 100 detonators, and when the accident occurred there was one man who had not received them. It is probable 20 detonators remained in the box, when, by some means, probably a spark from his naked light which he had on his cap, they exploded and very seriously injured him. He died the following day. Four officials and a miner who were close by when the explosion occurred were slightly injured. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 30 | Rosie | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Dolan | 48 | Casual Labourer | On surface – sundries | He had wheeled a barrow of hot ashes from the boiler up on to a staging 10 feet from the ground, intending to tip the contents into a railway truck standing underneath. The barrow went over the edge of the staging, however, and he followed and fell to the ground, sustaining injuries to the back and burns. He slept in the open all night and his injuries did not receive medical treatment until 12 hours afterwards. He died 10 days later, death being due to sepsis. One hand and a leg had been amputated in the effort to save life. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 30 | Woolmet | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Murray | 44 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was passing along a roadway when a portion of the post-roof, 6 ft. by 5 ft., 16 in. thick at one side, and tapering to a feather edge on the other side, fell on him without any warning. He died about three hours later. | |
| 1913 | October | 30 | Niddrie No 13 | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Henry Shillinglaw | 38 | Shaftsman | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | He went 30 feet down the shaft in the cage for the purpose of measuring the length of a damaged pump rod, in order to get a new one made to replace it. When opposite the joint of the rod in question he stepped out of the cage on to a bunton, which had been placed across the shaft for some years, when it collapsed and he fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 125 fathoms, and was instantly killed. The bunton to a casual examination appeared to be sound, but if it had been tested with a hammer or other tool it would have been found to be rotten and incapable of bearing any weight. It was deceased's duty to make the statutory examinations in this shaft. | To follow |
| 1913 | October | 31 | Lochore, Mary Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Laurison | 34 | Roadsman | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | He was apparently trying to locate an electrical ''fault," when he came into contact with a girder which was "live" through resting on another girder which had cut through the insulation of an unarmoured lighting cable carrying current at 500 volts. He had been warned not to go near the girders as they were " live." Death was almost instantaneous. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 1 | Blairhall | Fife | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Michael McCann | 42 | Miner | Falls of side | He had just fired a shot in the coal at his working place, which was being worked to the rise, the inclination being about 1 in 6, and the thickness of the seam about 6 feet 6 inches. he was shovelling away some of the coal blown down by the shot without, it is said, having made a proper examination of the place. A slab of coal from the upper part of the coal face fell on him. He died on the 18th. | |
| 1913 | November | 3 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Dunnachie | 25 | Brusher | Falls of roof | He was removing some stones from a drawing road when a large stone fell off the building and severely injured him. Died about four hours later. | |
| 1913 | November | 4 | Dullatur | Dumbarton | Baton Collieries Ltd | George Pringle | 41 | Miner | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | He walked into an unfenced shaft at a mid-working. The fence had been removed by either the bottomer or some person unknown. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 4 | Viewpark | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Charles Stevenson | 46 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was on his way outbye to the shaft after finishing his day's work, and, while passing along the haulage road, the roof suddenly collapsed and he was killed by the fall. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 7 | Craigend | Stirling | Carron Co | Archibald Cousland | 42 | Assistant Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He switched on the current to enable his partner to examine the commutator brushes before the haulage rope had been set in position—the new picks catching in the coal threw the machine out from the face, which caused him to be caught and badly lacerated by the picks. He died soon afterwards. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 7 | Neilsland No 2 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Patrick Lyons | 26 | Assistant Pitheadman | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Whilst the deceased was putting a bolt in the cage, it was lowered, and he was crushed between the top of the cage and the pithead. The winding engineman made a mistake and lowered the cage without having a signal to do so. |
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| 1913 | November | 8 | Tannochside | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | Frank Stools | 54 | Hoistman | On surface – sundries | He had placed a hutch of " redd" on to the hoist cage at, the surface to have it raised up to the level of the dirt bing, but failed to raise the safety catch on the cage, which prevents the hutch from coming out. When the cage was raised the hutch fell out and hit him on the head and killed him instantly. | |
| 1913 | November | 10 | Leven Nos 1 & 2 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Dryburgh | 14 | Engine Attendant | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | A railway wagon was to be tipped, and deceased was knocking up the catch of the end door to enable this to be done. In consequence he did not hear the approach of seven other wagons which had run over a "scotch." He was crushed between the buffers and died about 20 minutes later. He had been repeatedly warned not to interfere with the wagons, the last time only an hour before the accident, as it was not part of his duties. | |
| 1913 | November | 10 | Orbiston No 3 | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Peter Eccles | 19 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The deceased and another youth were employed as drivers on a road rising 1 in 7, on which the full hutches were pulled up by horses and the empty ones brought down by hand. To facilitate the stopping of them at the foot of the road the deceased usually placed a piece of brattice cloth across the rails on which the hutches ran. He was engaged in doing this when the accident occurred, and he was caught by the down coming hutch and crushed against a tree. He died the following day. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 11 | Loanhead No 3 Pit, Burghlee | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | John Brown | 19 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | The deceased signalled the cage away on the west side of the shaft, and then raised the gate on the opposite or east side, and bent over to remove a bolt that was holding a girder, which he was going to remove, in the pit bottom, when he was caught by downcoming cage and killed. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 14 | Polmaise No 3 & 4 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | William Malcolmson | 17 | Door Attendant | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Three hutches were allowed to run away down a steep brae, and struck deceased, who was attempting to open a separation door, thinking it was the rake. There was no contrivance to enable him to open the door without coming into the brae in the way of the rake. |
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| 1913 | November | 20 | Lochhead Burghlee Pit | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Richard Horn | 16 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased was filling coal at the roadhead, when a large mass of the post-roof, about 7 yards long, fell without any warning and killed him instantly. The roof which fell was of triangular section, the sides being about 3 ft. broad. It was bounded by a parting on one side and a hidden cutter on the other. There was no timber set to it. | |
| 1913 | November | 24 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Stevenson | 68 | Picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased came forward on to a scaffold, about the height of a railway wagon from the ground, to see a loaded wagon lowered from under the delivery end of a picking belt. Just as it was being lowered he was seen to step from the scaffold on to the wagon and bend down, as though to pick something up, despite the fact that he was a heavy, aged, and rather infirm man. He appears to have been thrown out by the wagon stopping suddenly ; he was found on the ground unconscious and bleeding. He died five days later without having regained consciousness. | To follow |
| 1913 | November | 24 | Auchenbegg | Lanark | Waddell & Son | Walter Johnstone, Senr | 40 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was holing at the face when some roof coal suddenly fell over the sprags and fatally crushed him. | |
| 1913 | November | 29 | Donibristle No 2 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Seath | 40 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was engaged splitting a stoop, and had just finished this and reached an old room, which was rather badly fallen and which he intended to cross. The bar which he was setting to secure the roof was too long, and he proceeded to take some coal off the side of the stoop. In doing so he liberated a slab of roof which fell on him, injuring his back. He died nine days later. | |
| 1913 | December | 2 | Meadowbank | Stirling | Jas Nimmo & Co Ltd | Thomas Simpson | 15 | Pithead Boy | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | The deceased was engaged in taking off the loaded hutches at No. 1 shaft, which is a downcast with forcing fan. A hutch of redd came up, which had to be taken off the opposite side to the full hutches of coal, and in order to do this, the cage had to be raised 3 inches. Owing to a mistake in the signalling the cage, instead of ascending, descended and Simpson was caught and pulled down with it. He fell to the bottom of the shaft and was killed. | To follow |
| 1913 | December | 3 | Starryshaw | Lanark | Peter Thornton | Thomas McConnachie | 28 | Fireman | Shaft accidents – falling from surface | He was fireman of sections where only five men were at work, and had illegally come to the surface to help the winding-engineman get coal to the boilers. He pushed an empty tub to the pit at the low scaffold, and the engineman opening the gate he pushed it down the pit, falling down with it. It was a dark, windy and rainy night, and the electric light had gone out, but if either of the men had thought at all they would have known the cage was not at the low scaffold. | |
| 1913 | December | 3 | Auchinreoch No 1 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | William Stevenson | 30 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was walking up a long dook at the end of his shift when he was overtaken and run over by the rake which was drawn by a main rope. He ran in front of it and passed a manhole he could easily have got into. The manholes were of good size but were not whitewashed. | |
| 1913 | December | 8 | Balgonie, Julian Pit | Fife | Balgonie Colliery Co | James Lynch | 28 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was about to run his hutch on a cut-chain brae when the drawer at the bench above ran his hutch out on the brae, and, losing control of it, allowed it to run down the brae. Deceased was crushed between this hutch and the hutch he was preparing to run. He died about 9 hours later. The other drawer alleged that his block was properly set on the side road, and he did not know he was so near the brae. Both statements are hard to believe, as he passed through a screen only 7 yards from the side of the brae, and tests showed it was not possible to set the block in any way so that it would fail to stop the hutch. | |
| 1913 | December | 15 | Darngavil No 4 Pit, Greyrigg | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | James Gibson | 22 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | Deceased had his picks in the disc, but, before putting the disc into its position to begin cutting the coal, he did what is usual, viz., turned the disc to see that everything was in order ; while the disc was revolving, some of the picks struck the coal face, causing the machine to bound back, and he was caught by the revolving picks. One of the "Stells" had given, which permitted the machine to swing round. | To follow |
| 1913 | December | 15 | Kenmuirhill No 2 | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Stewart | 50 | Oncostman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Whilst repairing a cuddie, from which he had detached the rope, a chain-runner bringing a hutch to the bench above, and not knowing the cuddie was detached, pushed the load into the brae ; it ran away and struck the deceased. Deceased committed a breach of Regulation 28 by not warning the chain-runner that he was about to work at the cuddie. | To follow |
| 1913 | December | 16 | Loanhead Burghlee Pit | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Dominic Dempsay | 40 | Coal Picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He had come down off the screens and was standing against a wall below them, when he was caught by a wagon of dross that was being lowered down, and fatally crushed between it and the wall. | |
| 1913 | December | 19 | Woodhall | Lanark | Barr & Higgins | William Cowan | 46 | Fireman | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Deceased was standing on a scaffold supported on two buntons, and while preparing to put in some collars to secure pipes in the shaft one of the buntons gave way, and he and the scaffold were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 30 fathoms. |
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| 1913 | December | 20 | Burghlee | Richard Horn | Not listed | Newspaper report | |||||
| 1913 | December | 20 | Vogrie | Edinburgh | Gavin Paul & Sons Ltd | Adam Gillies | 26 | Hanger-on | Falls of side | He was filling dirt on a main haulage road, when some stone fell from the upper part of the side of the road and struck him on the head. He died two days later. | |
| 1913 | December | 22 | Garriongill No 12 | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | John Yuille | 63 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was filling coal against the brushing face at the top of a heading, rising about 1 in 6, when a large mass of the brushing, which was post, about 4 feet 6 inches thick, and weighing probably 15 tons, fell without any warning. One large stone rolled over on him, and the left arm, which was inside the iron hutch, was almost severed. He died in the ambulance wagon on the way to the hospital about two and a half hours later. | Newspaper report - Cambusnethan pages |
| 1913 | December | 22 | Blantyre No 1 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | Thomas Erskine | 59 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was standing in the centre of the "shed road" of railway watching the approach of a Caledonian train on the main line, and was not aware of the approach of the colliery locomotive from the opposite direction coming into the same " shed road," and was run down and killed. | |
| 1913 | December | 26 | Raploch No 1 | Lanark | Raploch Coal Co Ltd | Richard McGhie | 20 | Assistant Machineman | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged " gumming" behind a coal-cutter, when the roof suddenly fell upon him, causing injuries from which he died half an hour later. The roof fell out from between unseen lypes, and in falling threw out several props. | |
| 1913 | December | 26 | Wellesley | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | William Gorman | 17 | Miners Drawer | Falls of side | Deceased had filled five or six hutches of coal from the front of 12 feet of overhanging coal holed 4 feet under at the face of a level, and was filling away a small quantity of redd, after which it was intended to put up a sprag. Before this was done, however, a slab of coal and stone rolled over and fractured the base of his skull. He died about 14 hours later. | |
| 1913 | December | 31 | Gauchalland No 2 | Ayr | Gauchalland Coal Co | John Vallance | 15 | Clerk | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased, after ticketing wagons, was crossing the rails between empty and loaded wagons, which were 8 feet apart and spragged, and at rest under the screens, when, without warning, a locomotive owned and worked by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company pushed the empty wagons over a "scotch," and he was caught and killed. | |