| Year | Month | Day | Mine | County | Owner or Company | First Name | Surname | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra details |
| 1900 | January | 1 | Kelty | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David | Brown | 58 | Engineman | On surface – miscellaneous | Deceased, who was alone when the accident occurred, appeared to have been on the top of the cylinders of a vertical pumping engine, filling the lubricators, and to have fallen thence to the floor, a distance of about 13 feet. His skull was fractured. | |
| 1900 | January | 4 | Auchlochan | Lanark | W C S Cunningham | John | Wyllie | 39 | Roadsman | In shafts – falling from part way down | Deceased was acting temporarily as bottomer in a shaft in which there were two landings, one of them being eight fathoms above the bottom. Only ten miners were employed in the Upper Seam, and one bottomer acted for both landings, riding from one to the other as required. Deceased was descending from the upper to the lower landing, and while closing the gate behind him at the former, appeared to have slipped between the end of the cage and the side of the shaft, and to have fallen to the bottom, the cage descending and resting upon him. He was extricated immediately, but died a minute or two afterwards. | |
| 1900 | January | 4 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Donaldson McFarlane | Lees | 34 | Contractor Brusher | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was repairing timber on an engine haulage road, when a large fall of roof took place, swinging the timber. The roof was broken at the point | |
| 1900 | January | 8 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Robert | Logan | 47 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased and another fireman began to inspect the workings after the holiday, preparatory to work restarting. In going to a rise place by the usual ladder-way, they found it blocked by a fall, and returning, they proceeded up the brake incline, deceased leading the way; at the drum, gas was ignited by deceased's open light, which he carried on his cap, and an explosion resulted, causing him to lose his hold and fall to the bottom of incline, a distance of 40 yards. The gradient was 75°. Gas was known to be in the rise place some distance away, and both men carried safety lamps besides their open lights, but never before had gas been seen in a working brake incline. | At Niddrie Colliery the deceased and another fireman were examining the workings after the New Year's holidays, and although not perhaps expecting fire-damp, yet had with them a safety lamp which, however, they were not using at the time. Niddrie, although a deep mine, is yet very free from fire-damp. |
| 1900 | January | 10 | Merryton | Lanark | Merryton Coal Co | David | Thompson | 15 | Pony Driver | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was in the act of hooking the chain from a pony on to a hutch close to the working face, when a large fall of roof took place, swinging out the timber which was set very close as the roof is soft. | |
| 1900 | January | 12 | Glenyards (Fireclay) | Stirling | Glenyards Fireclay Co | Samuel | Connor | 31 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | A fall of roof from the face of a thick fireclay seam. | |
| 1900 | January | 15 | Hattonrigg No 3 Pit | Lanark | Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co Ltd | James | Adams | 14 | Pony Driver | Haulage – by trams and tubs | Run over by the first of two loaded hutches which he was taking out a level. | Newspaper Report |
| 1900 | January | 18 | Bothwell Castle No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | George | Day | 47 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Fall of coal. Apparently he had been working beneath it without sprags | |
| 1900 | January | 18 | Rosebank | Fife | John Nimmo & Son Ltd | Thomas | Hynd | 23 | Brusher | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was pulling down some loose stones left by a recently fired brushing shot, when a large stone fell upon him breaking his back. He succumbed to his injuries on 20th November. | |
| 1900 | January | 19 | Clydesdale | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Duncan | Russell | 55 | Roadsman | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | While working in the pit deceased punctured his hand with a rusty nail, and blood poisoning supervened, causing his death 10 days later. | |
| 1900 | January | 19 | Springbank | Lanark | Springbank Colliery Co Ltd | Thomas | Gill | 35 | machineman | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was employed as advance rail layer for a coal cutting machine, and while engaged preparing to set a prop, the roof suddenly fell from between a "dry" and a "lype," which were unseen. | |
| 1900 | January | 22 | Hallside | Lanark | James Dunlop & Co Ltd | Robert | Rennie | 35 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof from “brushing face”. Caused by want of props. | |
| 1900 | January | 24 | Stanrigg | Lanark | Wm Black & Sons Ltd | William | Bulloch | 56 | Sinking Contractor | Miscellaneous underground – suffocation by natural gases | Deceased had taken a contract to re-open an old shaft filled with debris. It had been cleared out a few fathoms by a previous contractor. Deceased had not made a start with the work, but descended by means of a windlass and bucket to examine the pit, when he was overcome by black damp and fell from the bucket. | |
| 1900 | January | 24 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | James | Thomson | 49 | Wagon repairer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was engaged repairing the buffer of a wagon, when another, which had been shunted into the same road, moved slowly and silently forward, and he was fatally crushed between them. | |
| 1900 | January | 25 | Dalziel No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co Ltd | Wm. | Kelly | 28 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of coal and stone from the roof. Another man was injured | |
| 1900 | January | 26 | Hallside | Lanark | James Dunlop & Co Ltd | Henry | Cairns | 38 | Road Repairer | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof on road while repairing it. | |
| 1900 | January | 26 | Stane | Lanark | Turners Ltd | George | Montgomery | 57 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Crushed between wagons at the screens. | |
| 1900 | January | 29 | Gilbertfield No 2 Pit | Lanark | Cambuslang Coal Co Ltd | Charles | Sneddon | 58 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof in working place. | |
| 1900 | January | 29 | Whitrigg | Linlithgow | R Forrester & Co | Alexander | Rogers | 43 | Sinker | In shafts – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | Deceased was the leading sinker, and he and three other sinkers came from the bottom in the kettle to the Jewel coal level to make some alterations on the pump; by a mistake of signals they were raised to the "striking" mark, which was too far, and again, in signalling to be lowered, a mistake was made, and the kettle was dropped suddenly, whereby deceased was thrown off and fell to the bottom, a distance of 7 fathoms. The signals given to the engineman were such as given to raise debris and strike in the usual way. The signal for men to ascend was not given. | |
| 1900 | February | 5 | Eastrigg | Linlithgow | Eastrigg Coal Co | Francis | Bothwell | 45 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased bored a hole for a shot to blast down the brushing, which was composed of very hard sandstone, and while inserting part of the charge of gelignite an explosion occurred. The cartridges were hard. | |
| 1900 | February | 12 | Carbarns | Lanark | Wm Hudspith & Co | James | Dickson | 27 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | A section of Ell Coal had been reached by a stone mine driven upwards from the Main Coal, and a place had been driven in the Ell Coal to a small blind-pit put up from the Main Coal on the vees of a trouble so as to provide two airways. While driving the stone mine and the place in the Ell Coal, a current of air was carried forward by brattice, but the current was so feeble that when driving in the Ell Coal it had to be assisted by means of a hand fan and wood rhones or air boxes. Some trouble had been experienced with fire damp in the Ell Coal. The connection with the blind pit had been completed before the accident, but notwithstanding this, on the day of the accident gas was found in the Ell Coal, and no miners were allowed to work in it. The three deceased, and another man, who was injured, were engaged trying to remove the gas. The injured man was working the hand fan and the fireman had gone forward with a Davy safety lamp to see if the connection with the blind pit was open, and the manager and oversman were near the foot of the stone mine, when a somewhat violent explosion occurred, coming from where the fireman was. The fireman's body was found near the blind pit, and the bottom of his safety lamp was found some yards further out. The gauze was not found. The place in the Ell Coal was dry and rather dusty. |
The Carbarns Colliery explosion was primarily due to insufficient ventilation, the return air way was of inadequate size, and considerable leakage took place from the intake air current owing to defective stoppings, the consequence was that although there was an efficient fan and a good intake air road very little air reached the-face, and what, I believe, was a comparatively limited issue of fire-damp could not be properly dealt with. A connection made with a blind pit a day or two before the accident had been expected to remedy matters, but this did not increase the feeble current, and fire-damp was found in considerable quantities on the day of the explosion, and the deceased men were engaged in its removal at the time of the accident-an operation which, I think, should have been left over until the ordinary workmen were out of the pit. One of the deceased, the fireman, went forward to near the top of the blind pit and the explosion came from him. He carried an ordinary Davy safety lamp and after the accident the safety lamp, minus the gauze, was found a few yards further out than his body. The gauze was not found, but was supposed to be under a large fall of roof, which took place after the explosion, near where the lamp was found. |
| George | Hill | 49 | Oversman | |||||||||
| Henry | Danks | 64 | Manager | |||||||||
| 1900 | February | 13 | Grangemouth | Stirling | Grangemouth Coal Co Ltd | David Kerr | Harrower | 13 | Stone Picker | On surface – by machinery | Crushed by the connecting rod of a pumping engine. | |
| 1900 | February | 13 | Hamilton Palace No 1 Pit | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | John | Buchan | 34 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof in working place. | Newspaper report |
| 1900 | February | 14 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Henry | McCairtney | 43 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | A shot in deceased's place was lighted by the fireman. Deceased retired, but, apparently deceived either by the sound of another shot or by a bump in the strata, thought his shot had exploded, and returned to his place, and was fatally injured by his shot exploding. | |
| 1900 | February | 15 | Knockterra | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thomas | Cree | 15 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | While drawing a hutch along a road a stone from the roof fell upon him | |
| 1900 | February | 19 | Gilmilnscroft No 3 Pit | Ayr | Gauchalland Coal Co | Wm. | McConnell | 38 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Fall of coal while holing beneath it. Caused by the want of a sprag. | |
| 1900 | February | 21 | Hill of Beath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David | Muir | 56 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was stamping a hole in the coal head to support the inner end of a bar, which was intended to support a portion of the roof, from beneath which the coal had just been taken. While doing so, a large wedge-shaped stone of triangular section fell from between two ''lypes," killing him almost instantaneously. The existence of one of the "lypes" was known of prior to the accident, but that of the other was only revealed when the stone fell. | |
| 1900 | February | 22 | Glespin | Lanark | Robert Swann | Robert | Weir | 33 | Manager | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased, with his oversman and fireman, went to survey a part of the workings in the Four-Feet coal seam, all of them carrying open lights, when gas was ignited by one or other of deceased's or fireman's light, resulting in an explosion. Gas had not been seen in the section, but three years before it was found in a section opposite. The section was part of a "ventilating district," and in terms of section 5 of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1896, should have been inspected daily, but apparently this had not been done. In close proximity to the place of accident was a large fault. | At Glespin Colliery, where fire-damp is hardly ever seen, the manager and other officials were surveying some abandoned workings, when they encountered some gas. It would have been prudent in this case to have made an examination with a safety lamp before commencing the survey. |
| 1900 | February | 22 | Wester Queenslie | Lanark | John Allan | James | Broadley | 45 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | While forcing gelignite cartridges into a shot hole drilled in sandstone with a wooden stemmer they exploded. Another person was injured. | |
| 1900 | February | 23 | Dumbreck No 2 Pit | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alexander | Miller | 41 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | While making his inspection previous to the night shift, and immediately after the fan had been restarted after a stoppage of 14 hours for repairs, an explosion of fire damp took place, wrecking the section of workings. His body was found 50 yards distant from the working place where his safety lamp and naked lamp were lying. He evidently was using his naked light. | No fewer than three firemen lost their lives while making their inspection, previous to the commencement of the shift, with a naked light instead of with a safety lamp. The first of these happened in Dumbreck No. 2 Pit. The fan had been stopped for 14 hours for repairs, and as soon as it was restarted the deceased fireman commenced to make an inspection of the workings with a naked light. It is almost incredible that a man should thus court death, but when his naked lamp was afterwards found lying beside his safety lamp the only conclusion one can arrive at is that while carrying an open light he walked into an accumulation of fire-damp, with the inevitable result that an explosion followed. |
| 1900 | February | 23 | Whistleberry No 2 Pit | Lanark | Archd Russell | John | McCluskey | 40 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof at working place. | |
| 1900 | February | 27 | Bothwell Park No 2 Pit | Lanark | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John | Beattie | 28 | Roadsman | Haulage – on inclined or engine planes | While removing a stone which had fallen upon a runaway "race" of hutches on a haulage road, the haulage engine was unexpectedly started, and he was crushed between the stone and the side of the road. | Newspaper Report |
| 1900 | March | 2 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Thomas | Prentice | 54 | Ashman | On surface – miscellaneous | A wall against which dross for the boilers was laid down collapsed, and fell on deceased. | |
| 1900 | March | 5 | Rosewell | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Alexander | Nisbet | 31 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was proceeding to the rise side of his working-place when the roof suddenly fell upon him. | |
| 1900 | March | 6 | Jellieston No 2 Pit | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | James | Paterson | 75 | Pony Driver | Haulage – by trams and tubs | He fell off a "race" of hutches on a horse road and was run over. | |
| 1900 | March | 9 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | John | Sweeney | 37 | Drawer | Haulage – on inclined or engine planes | Deceased was a drawer on a cuddiebrae, and while descending with a loaded tub the wheel-tree came out and tub and cuddie descended rapidly to the level road ; he held on to the tub, and when it struck the wall side the impact threw him back in front of the descending cuddle. The wheel-tree was too short and had been put up shortly before the accident. | |
| 1900 | March | 12 | Pumpherston (Oil Shale) | Linlithgow | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | Archibald | Murphy | 39 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased worked in an upset in the Pattison shale, and on the morning of the accident the fireman discovered gas and prevented him starting, but sent him to work in a level above. After breakfast he went in to have a look at the upset face, and while going up his open light ignited the gas, causing an explosion, whereby he was severely burned, the injuries terminating in his death about three weeks afterwards. The deceased was well aware of the presence of gas, and in passing in he was warned by the boy who worked a hand fan at the foot of the upset. | In the Pumpherston Oil Shale Mine and Cowdenbeath Colliery explosions the presence of small quantities of fire-damp was known before the explosions, in the Pumpherston case the deceased man, against the order of the fireman, went into an upset and ignited gas. |
| 1900 | March | 14 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Richard | Lumsden | 29 | Locomotive Driver | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased, who had had previous experience as a locomotive driver elsewhere, had only commenced work here on the morning of the accident, and was assisting the ordinary driver in order to ''learn the road." When taking a train of twenty-nine loaded trucks down from the pit on a gradient falling 1 in 33, the driver lost control of the train, and finding that his locomotive wheels were "skidding," and that he was unable to pull up, he shouted to deceased to jump off, at the same time doing so himself. Deceased remained on the engine, which left the rails at a set of facing points, toppled over, and fell upon the weighing table, which was broken to pieces. Deceased was thrown into the weighing pit and killed instantly. The whole of the brakes were said to have been pinned down, but apparently they had not sufficient power to control the train. | |
| 1900 | March | 26 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Michael | Rowley | 50 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Deceased and another worked in an upset near the face of a dook. The upset had been driven for a distance of about 20 feet, and had a rise of 1 in 2. Canvas was led to the mouth of the upset, but no provision was made to take air to the face. No one had worked in the upset for 40 hours prior to the accident. The fireman reported to deceased's fellow workman that he had found a small quantity of firedamp at the face of the upset, and had wafted it out, and permitted them to pass inbye, giving them an unlocked Davy lamp, with which they might examine the place if they entered it before he reached it again. On reaching the upset they entered it with open lights, and ignited some gas, which burned both men somewhat severely. Deceased succumbed to his injuries five days' later. | In the Pumpherston Oil Shale Mine and Cowdenbeath Colliery explosions the presence of small quantities of fire-damp was known before the explosions …… At Cowdenbeath Colliery the fireman improperly allowed workmen to proceed into a working place where he had found gas and was evidently suspicious of it as he gave them a safety lamp to examine for themselves. The fireman was charged with culpable homicide, but was acquitted. |
| 1900 | March | 30 | Polton | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Patrick | Clark | 21 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was standing holing on top of the coal, when the roof suddenly fell. | |
| 1900 | April | 2 | Devon | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Stansbury | 37 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Deceased was holing, when a piece of head coal burst out from the solid, and striking his head, inflicted such injury.,that he died three days afterwards. | |
| 1900 | April | 7 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | David | Jack | 63 | Cranefooter | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Deceased was assisting a fireman to rail a set of derailed tubs on a wheel brae, when a large stone fell from the side near the roof and rolled over him, causing injuries which terminated fatally an hour afterwards. | |
| 1900 | April | 11 | Auchenharvie No 5 Pit | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Wm. | McIntyre | 40 | Miner | Haulage – on inclined or engine planes | Run over by runaway hutches on a self-acting incline when travelling up to his working place. | |
| 1900 | April | 11 | Fallahill | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | James | McLean | 23 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was working alone in a long wall place, in a thin seam, when a piece of sandstone, 7 ft. in length and of triangular section, fell upon him, fracturing his skull. One side of the stone was formed by a "dry," which only became visible after the accident. | |
| 1900 | April | 12 | Holytown No 2 Pit | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Peter | Cassells | 27 | Miner | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | Firedamp, apparently suddenly released by the breaking of the roof, ignited at an open light. Other two men were injured | Two miners, sons of the fireman, lost their lives, and other two miners were injured, in Holytown No. 12 Pit by an explosion evidently caused by gas from a sudden outburst coming in contact with a naked light. The Lower Drumgray seam was being opened up by the long-wall system of working, when a sudden break in the roof took place, and one of the miners, on rushing out to the road-head, ignited the gas. The fireman, on returning about half an hour afterwards, observed some of the timbering on fire about 40 yards distant from where the gas was ignited, and was fortunate in retiring to a place of safety ere there was a second explosion, caused by the gas accumulating and igniting at the burning timber. After this, the owners were induced to introduce safety lamps, but within six months they wished to revert to open lights, and seemed to consider it a hardship when I informed them that I would oppose any attempt to withdraw the safety lamps in the meantime. |
| Gilbert | Cassells | 19 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1900 | April | 13 | Bannockburn No 2 Pit | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Hugh | Duncan | 41 | Miner | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | When he stepped off the cage at a mid-working, he fell into the cage seat of the other cage, and through the defective scaffolding to the bottom of the shaft. | |
| 1900 | April | 13 | Glencraig | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Wood | 53 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | A place was being driven up on a level road for ventilation, and a shot was prepared and fuse ignited by the miner in charge of the place: just then deceased passed in the level, and he went to the dip side opposite where place should come through to ascertain the thickness of coal between, when the shot exploded and blew through, killing him instantaneously. | |
| 1900 | April | 16 | Chapel | Alexander | Wilson | Not listed in report | Newspaper report [Natural causes] | |||||
| 1900 | April | 16 | Bowhill | Fife | Bowhill Coal Co Ltd | Cornelius | O'Donnell | 35 | Stone Miner | Miscellaneous underground – irruptions of water | Deceased and another miner worked in a stone mine at foot of the main dook. and at the same time a "througher" was being driven toward the companion dook 35 yards away, which contained water: this water suddenly burst into "througher'' and running to the stone mine deceased was drowned. The thickness of coal between "througher" and companion dook at time of burst was 13 inches. The water lay 95 feet up the companion dook road, and the quantity calculated amounted to 29,500 gallons, with a head of 10.4 lbs. per square inch. A prosecution was raised against the manager for contravention of General Rule 13. | |
| 1900 | April | 21 | Eddlewood | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | William | Murphy | 50 | Brusher | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Deceased was alone putting in a building, when a stone fell off the face of the brushing on him. Before he was discovered he had lain under the stone for fully an hour, he subsequently died from his injuries. | |
| 1900 | April | 23 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James | McCue | 32 | Roadsman | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased and another workman were engaged taking a tub along an airway, from which the rails had been lifted, and while dragging it down it struck a prop, and knocking it out, released a stone, which fell and fatally crushed him. | |
| 1900 | April | 24 | Dumbreck No 1 Pit | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | William | Branks | 22 | Drawer | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | While taking a hutch along a road the roof fell on him | |
| 1900 | May | 1 | Cowdenbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Glenny | 14 | Drawer | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | The deceased were found under a stone, 30 ft. from the coal face, by the fireman while making his usual inspection; the boy was quite dead, and the man died four hours later from his injuries. It is supposed that Glenny came inbye with an empty tub, and leaving it at the place of "coup," he went to the face for Brown to assist him to "coup" it up, and both were returning for that purpose when the roof fell. | |
| Andrew | Brown | 32 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1900 | May | 2 | Blantyre Ferme | Lanark | A G Moore & Co | Wm. | Renfrew | 29 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Fall of coal and midstone, which burst away from the unholed face. | |
| 1900 | May | 2 | Meiklehill No 5 Pit | Dumbarton | James Wood Ltd | James | Kerr | 20 | Drawer | Haulage – by trams and tubs | Apparently he was illegally drawing in front of a loaded hutch coming down an inclined road, and got run over by it. | |
| 1900 | May | 3 | Glenesk | Edinburgh | Melville Coal Co Ltd | William | King | 50 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Deceased was lying holing at a longwall face in a 3 ft. 1 in. seam, when the coal suddenly broke off along a length of twelve feet, and fell upon him, killing him almost instantly. The oversman and two others witnessed the accident. The coal had been holed for a length of 13ft., and no holing props or gibs had been set, the coal having hitherto required to be blasted with gunpowder. The jury, at the Inquiry, recommended that in future the Rules as to propping should be more strictly enforced. | |
| 1900 | May | 5 | Prestongrange | Haddington | Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co Ltd | Francis | Dawson | 21 | Brusher | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased and three others were brushing a level in a 3 ft. 6 in. seam, which was being opened up to work long wall. He knocked out a prop at the mouth of a branch road in order to get down some stones wherewith to complete a roadside building, when a heavy fall took place, part of which slipped forward and struck him, knocking him down and killing him instantly. | |
| 1900 | May | 17 | Charlestown (Limestone) | Fife | Charlestown Lime Co | John | Watson | 62 | Labourer | Metalliferous mines | Deceased was engaged filling a tub near the face when a stone fell from the roof and struck him. | |
| 1900 | May | 18 | Parkhead No 17 Pit | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd | John | McCrae | 54 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Fall of coal, which he knew to be loose, but which he failed to sprag. | |
| 1900 | May | 21 | Arniston | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | William | Brodie | 35 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | A strip of about 3 ft. in width was being taken off one side of an old longwall road, for the purpose of straightening it. Deceased was holing out the old stowage under the overhanging side, when a stone 9 ft. in length by 3 ft. by 3 ft. at extremes, suddenly came away from an old break formed by the subsidence of the roof over the longwall waste, and fell upon him. He died whilst being extricated. The stone did not appear to have been in any way shored or ranced up. | |
| 1900 | May | 29 | Wemyss | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Thomas | Christie | 59 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Deceased was laying the foundation for a wooden pillar to support the roof when the coal above suddenly fell. | |
| 1900 | June | 1 | Hamilton Palace No 1 Pit | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | Joseph | Chereshewski | 26 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | Fall of coal | |
| 1900 | June | 2 | Cameron | Fife | Bowman & Co | John | Grey | 17 | Drawer | Falls in Mines – Falls of Side | While passing along the coal face, a mass of coal, which was holed and ranced, broke over the rances and killed him. | |
| 1900 | June | 6 | Boghead | Linlithgow | Gavin Paul & Sons | James | Doyle | 46 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | A thin stone fell right across deceased's place from the roof. | |
| 1900 | June | 7 | Dechmont No 1 Pit | Lanark | Archd Russell | Wm. | Wilson | 45 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof at “brushing face” | |
| 1900 | June | 7 | Portland No 8 Pit | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Wm. | McGaw | 45 | Labourer | On surface – by machinery | When working beneath a "shaking scree" the hangers supporting it gave way, and it fell on him. | |
| 1900 | June | 8 | Glenesk | Edinburgh | Melville Coal Co Ltd | William | Grey | 50 | Joiner | In shafts – falling from part way down | While deceased and others were working in a sinking shaft, a plank on which they stood broke, and they fell on to a scaffold below. | |
| 1900 | June | 12 | Cadzow | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | George William | Renwick | 16 | Carter | On surface – miscellaneous | While driving a cart in the colliery yard the wheel came in contact with a pump-pipe, and the cart was overturned. | |
| 1900 | June | 14 | Cadzow | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | William | Cornish | 17 | Bogieman | Haulage – on inclined or engine planes | Deceased was discovered by another bogieman, who was proceeding inbye with an empty rake, under the tubs of his own rake. It is supposed that deceased, who had lifted a part of his loaded rake from a bench a short distance inbye from place of accident, had failed to grip his rope, and the rake descending a slight dip, ran too hard, and he attempted to jump off at a man-hole, but striking the stoop side he was thrown back among the moving tubs. | |
| 1900 | June | 18 | Blair No 7 Pit | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Alexr. | Clockworthy | 18 | Miner | Falls in Mines – Falls of Roof | Fall of roof at working place. |
