| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1912 | January | 4 | Southrigg No 3 | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | Daniel Cunningham | 21 | Miner's Drawer | Falls of roof | While taking a full hutch down a road with a gradient of 1 in 20, some timber was apparently knocked out, and a fall of 3 tons of rock occurred. Deceased was found suffocated under the fall, his hutch being some 40 yards on the outbye side. | |
| 1912 | January | 6 | Oakley No 2 | Fife | Oakley Collieries Ltd | Mary Hogg | 31 | Pithead Worker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Caught and fatally injured by cage when pushing a hutch into the cage at the surface. A boy who was assisting her signalled to the winding engineman before she was clear. | |
| 1912 | January | 7 | Belhaven, Overjohnstone Pit | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | John Young | 73 | Wagon Trimmer | On surface – miscellaneous | He died from injuries received when going up some steps into an engine house on December 8th last. The top step broke and caused him to stumble slightly ; as there were only three steps it was thought he was only slightly injured. | |
| 1912 | January | 16 | Udston | Lanark | Udston Colliery Co Ltd | Henry Buesebeck | 35 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Whilst bringing out a rake of hutches with a horse he apparently stumbled, and was run over by the first hutch. | Newspaper Report |
| 1912 | January | 17 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | James Hunter | 14 | Haulage-boy | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | When attempting to pull a hutch out of the cage at the Pit bottom, the shuts on the surface failed to act, the cage pressed them, and he was pulled forward and crushed against the landing plates. | |
| 1912 | January | 19 | Dunnikier No 1, Panny Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Linton | 61 | Repairer | Falls of roof | When removing a broken bar in a closely wooded roadway, he omitted to set middle trees to support the bars on either side, with the result that they tilted out, and allowed the roof to fall upon him. | To follow |
| 1912 | January | 20 | Cobbinshaw No 3 (Oil shale) | Edinburgh | Tarbrax Oil Co Ltd | Robert McArdle | 40 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (10.15am) McArdle, with Scanton and another man, was engaged in stopping the mouth of a mine which was giving off gas. They were working with safety lamps, and were fully aware of its presence. When the stopping was within 2 feet of the roof it seems possible that an unbonnetted safety lamp was put into a strong current of air, which was playing on the stopping, and this forced the flame, perhaps lengthened by firedamp, through the gauze of the lamp, and ignited the gas. The lamps used at this mine were not provided with bonnets. The result of the explosion which followed the ignition of gas was to blow out the stopping with such force that the large stones in it struck and killed these two men, and injured the other one. | To follow |
| John Scanton | 28 | Repairer | |||||||||
| 1912 | January | 26 | Auchengeich | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | Harry Spence | 16 | Assistant Despatch Clerk | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was running alongside moving loaded train of wagons, the speed of which was about 5 miles an hour, when he stumbled and fell among the wheels, and was instantly killed. | |
| 1912 | January | 26 | Earlseat | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | Hugh Muir, Senr. | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased had placed a bar to the roof in his roadway, and cut holes in the sides some 4 feet in front of it for another one when the roof fell and killed him. There had been a heavy crush over this roadway, and deceased should have set a temporary tree to support the weak roof he was working under, while preparing for the second bar. | |
| 1912 | January | 29 | Castlehill No2 | Lanark | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Alexander Miller | 58 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was holing when a piece of stone fell, and cut his head. He continued working, but died from meningitis on February 5th. | |
| 1912 | January | 30 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Dan Fraser | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | When moving a piece of coal a small stone fell from the roof, and caught his finger ; he thought nothing of it and continued working, but septic poisoning supervened, and he died on the 10th February. | |
| 1912 | February | 4 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Dan McManus | 56 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (9pm) His safety lamp appears to have gone suddenly out, upon his entering the top level in which firedamp had accumulated. As gas had not previously been found there he apparently thought he had knocked it out, and struck a match to relight it, so causing an explosion, which killed him. | To follow |
| 1912 | February | 10 | Greenhill | Ayr | J & R Howie Ltd | Robert Lindsay | 39 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | A water chest was being drawn up a dook at a speed of two miles per hour. Deceased should have been up some yards ahead of it; he was heard to cry, the chest was stopped at once, and he was found lying crushed on the inbye side of it at a low crown tree. He said he had been walking, and had lost his light and tripped. He was in all probability riding, and was caught. He died on February 16th. | |
| 1912 | February | 10 | Dechmont | Lanark | Archd. Russell Ltd | James Boyle | 15 | Gummer | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | Deceased was removing the holing dirt from the cut close behind a Coal Cutting Machine, which was at work on a gradient of 1 in 3, and while doing so it suddenly slipped back, and before he got clear he was caught by the disc and fatally injured. The cause of the machine slipping was due to the chain attached to the haulage rope pulley, and fixed around a prop, working itself out at the pavement at bottom of prop, thus releasing the cutter and appliances. The pavement was very soft at the place, and its condition was unknown to deceased, and his neighbour who erected it. | |
| 1912 | February | 12 | Garriongill | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | John MacRoberts | 36 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was working close to a fault, and a piece of stone fell from the roof against the fault on to his back, causing serious injuries. Died 7th August, 1912. | |
| 1912 | February | 13 | Dalkeith | Edinburgh | A G Moore & Co | Alexander Beveridge | 25 | Drawer | Falls of roof | He was in a highly inclined seam, and shovelling coal down to the level road, when the head coal, left up to support the roof, broke, and reeling out six props, fell upon him, causing internal injuries, from which he died on the 26th March. | |
| 1912 | February | 14 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Charles Hamilton | 21 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was trying to put some hutches on the road while being moved by the haulage, when he slipped and fell in front of the rake, sustaining a broken back, and he succumbed to his injuries on 22nd May. | |
| 1912 | February | 14 | Cadzow | Lanark | Cadzow Coal Co Ltd | Thomas McQuade | 31 | Repairer | Falls of side | A large piece of sandstone fell from the roof whilst he was engaged in repairing a road way, and. fatally injured him. He died on the 4th March. | |
| 1912 | February | 20 | Prestongrange No 2 | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | James McPhillips | 20 | Driver | Falls of side | A fall had occurred in an unwooded part of a haulage road, which was 15 feet high. Deceased and three others were clearing it when a second fall covered him over, and firmly wedged his foot without seriously injuring him. As the other three men were endeavouring to get his leg free a third fall occurred which suffocated him and seriously injured one of the others. | |
| 1912 | February | 21 | Bog No 1 | Lanark | Hamilton McCulloch & Co Ltd | William Frew | 38 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased appears to have been in the act of taking coal off the face when the roof suddenly fell upon him and he was killed. The stone fell away by an unseen lype, and in falling threw out, at least, two props supporting it. | |
| 1912 | February | 22 | Earlseat | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | David S. Heggie | 32 | Fireman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | When travelling up a steep endless rope haulage road, he was knocked into the full road by a runaway empty hutch, and run over by the full one coming up behind. | |
| 1912 | February | 23 | Lochgelly, Nellie | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Terence McGuire | 37 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was working alone at the coal face when a stone fell out from between two lypes and killed him. | |
| 1912 | March | 1 | Gartshore No 1 | Dumbarton | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Thomas McWilliams | 31 | Repairer | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Owing to the miners' strike material for use underground was being sent down the Pit, among other things were malleable iron tubes. On the dip cage five such tubes, 12 ft. long by 3 in. diameter, were placed, and they were not fastened in any way ; as the cage descended two left their position and leaned over towards the barring, and on reaching an old opening in the shaft fell into it unknown to the men at the Pit bottom, and the ends projecting into the cage space. Deceased was ascending in the same cage and at the old opening it struck the tubes ; they were thrown into the shaft, and at the same time he was apparently also struck, thrown off the cage, and fell to the bottom, a distance of about 9 fathoms. From the nature of the injuries, deceased appears to have been killed from the tubes striking him. | |
| 1912 | March | 1 | Glespin | Lanark | Robert Swann | Thomas Hastings | 21 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The deceased was found dead, with his head jammed between the top of a loaded hutch, and the crown of the roadway. He apparently had been going in front instead of behind the hutch. | To follow |
| 1912 | March | 14 | Houldsworth | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | Thomas Stevenson | 36 | Night Fireman | Falls of roof | He was engaged repairing a road. The roof began to move, and he, along with his neighbour fireman stepped back into a place which they thought safe, when a stone fell from the roof, killing him instantly. | |
| 1912 | March | 19 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Howie | 68 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was engaged in shovelling small coal out of a wagon. He was told to get out and did so before it was moved, but was seen in it again when it was moving under the screens, and when climbing out he was knocked over the end of a girder which supported an endless belt. | |
| 1912 | March | 22 | Arniston, Emily | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | Robert McGill | 17 | Labourer | On surface – by machinery | He got on to the cage of a hoist to push a hutch off the wrong way, and while doing so shouted to some men to move. The man at the steam lever mistook his shout for a signal to start and raised the cage. He was crushed against the landing at the top. | |
| 1912 | April | 1 | Balgonie | Fife | Balgonie Colliery Co | Alexander McGregor | 16 | Motorman | On surface – by machinery | He and six other men were raising some pipes in a shaft by means of a double-geared winch, and, when doing so, they attempted to change the gears with the load on, with the result that the winch became free, and ran away, and one of the revolving handles hit and fractured the deceased's skull. Two other men were also injured. The winch had no "pawl" to prevent it running back ; if one had been fitted the accident would not have occurred. He died the following day. | To follow |
| 1912 | April | 3 | Polton | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Andrew Murdoch | 31 | Engineer | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He was disconnecting a steam trap from a separator, a valve, which he had closed, being between the two. He either unscrewed the valve itself, or the valve connection to the separator unscrewed as he turned the trap connection, and the steam left in the separator and pipes escaped and scalded him. | |
| 1912 | April | 10 | Dalbeath | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | David Hempseed | 30 | Miner | Falls of side | He was seriously injured by a fall of coal at the face and died on the 6th May. | |
| 1912 | April | 10 | Wilsontown No 3 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | William Sommerville | 59 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was working on a dook with a gradient of 1 in 8, when a hutch, which had been left snibbled on the rails 60 yards above, was started by the friction of the haulage rope, and ran down the dook and struck him. He died on the 13th inst. | To follow |
| 1912 | April | 11 | Herdshill | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | John Chalmers | 53 | Miner | Falls of side | He was lying on his side holing when the coal broke off at a lype, pushed the sprag out and fell on him. He died the same evening. | |
| 1912 | April | 11 | Home Farm | Lanark | Hamilton McCulloch & Co Ltd | Thomas Cowan | 34 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | He was charging a shot hole in the pavement, when it unexpectedly exploded, killing him almost instantly. Part of the charge, which consisted of ½ lb. gelignite, was probably frozen. | To follow |
| 1912 | April | 15 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Donald McKay | 34 | Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He was slightly injured on his face, either by coming in contact with the side of the road, or with the coal face, when following the Coal Cutting Machine ; blood poisoning supervened, and he died 13 days afterwards. | |
| 1912 | April | 15 | Auchinraith | Lanark | Merry & Cunninghame Ltd | Robert Cox | 30 | Bottomer | Falls of roof | Whilst repairing a broken haulage wheel in the pit bottom, the brick arched inset collapsed burying them, and killing them instantly. The arch was under repair at the time of the occurrence. | To follow |
| Lawrence Mynes | 35 | General Jobber | |||||||||
| 1912 | April | 17 | Greenhill | Lanark | Greenhill Colliery Co Ltd | James Yuill | 56 | Miner | Falls of side | He was holing coal, near the roadhead, when a large piece broke off the face, and fell on him ; he had failed to sprag the holed coal. | |
| 1912 | April | 22 | Prestongrange No 1 | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Thomas Simpson | 22 | Coal Miner | Falls of roof | The injured man and his brother were working in a place splitting a pillar, and it was just about holed. He fired a shot, which blew through into an old level and left a hole 2 feet by 2 feet in the face, and he, for some reason, crept through this hole into the old level, when a stone from the roof, shaken by the shot, fell upon and injured him. Died 8th May. | |
| 1912 | April | 23 | Blackrigg No 3 | Linlithgow | United Collieries Ltd | Alexander Leckie | 44 | Miner | Falls of roof | As he pulled down a piece of coal, which was holed, two tons of clay from the roof fell upon him and killed him instantaneously. Smooth lypes, previously unseen, were found on each side of the clay which fell. | |
| 1912 | April | 24 | Viewpark | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | John Jamieson | 45 | Hutch Tippler | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | The loaded coal tubs from Nos. 1 and 2 pits run by gravitation to one common weigh bridge, and, in addition, the tubs of debris from No. 1 pit have also to pass over the weigh bridge, and in order to reach the redd bing they are run into the cart screen road, which dips 1 in 12, and congregate at bottom of dip. Deceased's duties were to take the loaded tubs as they passed clear of the weigh bridge to the tipplers. For some reason unknown he left his place of work and went to the debris tubs congregated at cart screen road, and appeared to be in a stooping position behind the last stationary tub when another debris tub, sent down by his mate, came down and crushed him. He had only started the job that morning. | |
| 1912 | April | 24 | Whitrigg No 2 | Linlithgow | Robert Forrester & Co Ltd | John Hannah | 55 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was working off a stoop in a seam dipping 1 in 3 ½ when two tons of the rock roof fell without warning and killed him instantaneously. | |
| 1912 | May | 2 | Brucefield | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Robert Mitchell | 46 | Labourer | On surface – miscellaneous | He was engaged in removing machinery from an engine house when the bearer, supporting the chain blocks, became displaced, and the blocks fell on him. Another man was slightly injured. | |
| 1912 | May | 3 | Clyde No 3 | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Watson | 63 | Coal Miner | Falls of side | Died from injuries received on 24th November by a fall of coal which had been undercut. | |
| 1912 | May | 7 | Whitehill No1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | William Smith | 60 | Collier | Falls of roof | Deceased and a neighbour were together in a place taking a slice up alongside a stoop, to form a new road, to get the stoop extracted. Two rows of props were set next to the old "end," and when deceased was told to stand down clear to let his neighbour cut down some coal, he went through the row of props and sat down at the edge of unprotected roof. A stone broke off behind the second row of props without warning and fell on him, causing injuries from which he died on 25th May. | |
| 1912 | May | 7 | Littlemill | Ayr | Coylton Coal Co | Benjamin Crombie | 14 | Drawer | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (12.25pm) He was employed in a "fast" place in faulted ground with his father. After a shot had been fired the father tested at the face for gas and found none. He and his boy went in to work with naked lights, and ignited gas close to the end of brattice, 30 feet from the face itself. Both were burned, the boy so severely that he died next day. | To follow |
| 1912 | May | 10 | Knowehead | Stirling | Banknock Colliery Co Ltd | Archibald Robertson | 23 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was taking a loaded hutch to a cuddy brae, apparently being in front of the hutch, and using no snibbles. The hutch overcame him, and his head was crushed between his hutch and the balance hutch at the bottom of the brae. | |
| 1912 | May | 11 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | William Shepherd | 19 | Miner's Filler | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased tried to enter the cage after it was signalled away, and fell into the shaft. He was caught by the legs between the door and the plates on the surface; being new to mining he does not appear to have noticed the Pitheadman signal the men back when the cage was fully loaded. | To follow |
| 1912 | May | 11 | Newton No 1 | Lanark | James Dunlop & Co Ltd | James Robb | 35 | Jobber | Explosions of fire damp or coal dust | (1.30am) The deceased, Robb, and the fireman proceeded to the bottom lye of the Splint Coal Dook, which is a safety lamp area, with naked lights on their caps, and ignited gas which had accumulated, causing an explosion. The deceased, Duffy, and his mates, who were at work in the section, heard the explosion and all of them rushed towards the pit bottom, and in doing so had to pass through the afterdamp, and all were overcome. The explosion was not violent, and coal dust took no part in it, as the roadway was very wet. | To follow |
| John Duffy | 42 | Brusher | |||||||||
| 1912 | May | 11 | Blairhall | Fife | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Andrew Scotland | 45 | Pithead Worker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | In the absence of the Pitheadman, who was in the Winding Engine House, the deceased was pushing an empty hutch into the cage, when the Winding Engineman, in response to a signal from the bottom, lowered the cage, and caused Scotland to fall to the ground level, a distance of more than 20 ft. The Winding Engineman believed the Pithead to be deserted, and the men at their meals. The Pitheadman should not have been in the Engine House when the cage was moved, but either on the Pithead or with the men. | |
| 1912 | May | 13 | Gilmilnscroft No 6 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Johnstone | 45 | Stone Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased and a neighbour were working in a stone drift, and after shots had been fired in a thin coal holing bed, they were clearing the small coal and squaring the holing back. Deceased was working with a pick, and struck part of an undetonated Samsonite cartridge. An explosion "like the shot of a gun" followed, and both men had their eyes filled with dust. Deceased, who had been lying stretched out when the explosion occurred, received a small wound in his right side. He died on the 19th May. | To follow |
| 1912 | May | 14 | Hamilton Palace | Lanark | Bent Colliery Co Ltd | Alexander Rankin | 34 | Oncostman | Falls of roof | Deceased was buried beneath a fall of roof from between two faults, whilst passing along roadway with a loaded hutch. | Newspaper report |
| 1912 | May | 14 | Highhouse No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert Hazlett | 18 | Drawer | Falls of roof | He, and his father, had brought a tub to the face, which was a new lift just breaking off the side of a dook. The boy went round to the front of the tub via the opposite side of road from that on which they were at work, and, when getting there, a sudden fall of stone and coal from the stoop side killed him. | To follow |
| 1912 | May | 18 | Douglas Park | Lanark | Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Pettigrew | 65 | Wheel Oiler | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He attempted to cross from one side of the shaft to the other by the cage seat, and just as he made to step across the descending cage came down upon him, and crushed him fatally. There was a good road at the end of the shaft for the purpose of getting to both sides of the shaft, and he should have taken advantage of it. | To follow |
| 1912 | May | 20 | Motherwell No 2 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Joseph McGinnes | 51 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was filling coal on a machine face when a heavy fall took place, killing him on the spot. | |
| 1912 | May | 22 | Dunnikier, Panny | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William McCormack | 14 | Stone Picker | On surface – by machinery | He had left his work at the screens, and, for some unknown reason, climbed the railings of a gangway, and on to the end of an endless chain coal conveyer. He was found pinned under the drum of the conveyor, having evidently been caught and drawn in by it. | |
| 1912 | May | 25 | Blair No 5 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | John Eaglesham | 64 | Engineman | On surface – by machinery | He was on a platform 7 ft. 6 ins. from the ground level oiling the bell cranks of a Pumping Engine, a duty he had performed daily for twenty years, when he slipped from the unfenced side of the platform, next to the crank, and fell on to the crank soleplate at the ground level, fracturing his breast bone. He died on 5th June. | |
| 1912 | May | 27 | Duddingston No 1 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Oakbank Oil Co Ltd | Harry Feeny | 33 | Roadsman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | They were caught and killed by a runaway tub, when travelling down the main dook, on their way to work. The gradient varies from 1 in 4.7 to 1 in 8. The shale is brought to the surface by an overhead endless rope, the tubs being attached singly by means of chains twisted three times round the rope, and then hooked. The endless rope had not moved since the day before, and the chain, attached to the tub in question, had apparently loosened slightly during the night, causing it to slip. There was a good travelling dook close to this one, and these men were disobeying orders by walking on the main dook. | To follow |
| George Stirrut | 27 | Roadsman | |||||||||
| 1912 | May | 30 | Springhill | Ayr | Arch. Finnie & Son | John McEwan | 52 | Miner | Falls of side | These men, with two others, were descending to their work on a single decked cage, and when near the bottom some debris, from an old opening in the shaft about 50 fathoms above fell, consisting of fakes, fireclay, wood and props. The roof in falling carried away the timber and swept the fence, consisting of two doors, into the shaft. The "vees" of a lype were to be seen after the fall. The examinations in terms of the Special Rules appeared to have been complied with. McEwan was killed instantly, and Gumming died on 1st June. | To follow |
| William Gumming | 47 | Miner | |||||||||
| 1912 | June | 3 | Houldsworth | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | James Travers | 50 | Collier | Falls of roof | A fall of roof stone caught the deceased whilst he was passing along his working face ; the fall came away from between two lypes. | |
| 1912 | June | 6 | Largobeath | Fife | East of Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Donnachie | 33 | Brusher | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | When looking over a gate in the shaft at a mid landing, his head was caught between the ascending cage, and a balk, some 16 in. above the gate. | |
| 1912 | June | 10 | Coursington | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co Ltd | James Wallace | 21 | Bottomer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He was pushing a hutch of timber through the cage when the cage was raised, without a signal being given, and crushed him against the head covering. The Winding Engineman had been looking through the door at some pumps, and the Pithead signal rang as he was closing the door. He thought both signals had rung together, and started his Engine. Not hearing the bottom signal, he should have rung down before starting. | To follow |
| 1912 | June | 12 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | James Hepburn | 46 | Labourer | On surface – miscellaneous | He was sitting outside a hut on the spoil bank, when a pony, which had been startled by an engine, while drawing a rake of hutches, turned off the track in front of him. The rake ran on, and the draw chain crushed his leg against the hutch. Died 21st June. | |
| 1912 | June | 13 | Roman Camp No 2 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | David Smith | 37 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was timbering his working face when 20 tons of blaes fell from the roof between the wastes and the stoop, crushing him to death. | |
| 1912 | June | 13 | Bridgeness No 6 | Linlithgow | Bridgeness Coal Co | James Robertson | 17 | Drawer | Falls of roof | A fall of roof took place in the siding at which deceased worked ; he, and two other lads, at once started to clear it, without first having examined the roof ; another fall occurred and caught all three of them. They ought to have sent for an Official and waited until he arrived before doing anything. | To follow |
| 1912 | June | 13 | Woodilee | Dumbarton | Woodilee Coal & Coke Co Ltd | Daniel McDermid | 17 | Bottorner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was coming outbye with a loaded rake, consisting of 5 tubs, and, by some means, he fell in front of the first tub, which ran against, and crushed his head, causing instant death. It was no part of deceased's duty to drive the horse, but he did so voluntarily for the driver, while the latter was getting a meal. | |
| 1912 | June | 14 | Dykehead | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | David Phillips | 52 | Miner | Falls of side | Knocked down by a fall of a piece of coal he was trying to take down. In his fall his head struck a piece of coal lying on the pavement and his skull was fractured. | |
| 1912 | June | 14 | Parkneuk | Lanark | Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Alexander Burt | 17 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was filling a hutch at the face of a stoop when a fall of roof took place, due to four invisible "lypes" which surrounded the stone on all sides and caused it to break over the timber, killing him instantly, and injuring another man. | |
| 1912 | June | 17 | Poneil | Lanark | Arden Coal Co Ltd | John Stirling | 38 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was about to take out the last prop to allow the head coal to fall when the whole roof of head coal collapsed, and a piece of it caught and fatally injured him. | |
| 1912 | June | 18 | Craig No 2 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Wilson | 30 | Stone Worker | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | Fell down a blind pit when throwing debris down it. | |
| 1912 | June | 19 | Holytown | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | James Queen | 29 | Bogieman | Falls of roof | When taking a loaded rake outbye a fall of roof from the " vees " of a hitch occurred, which displaced some timber, caught and killed him. | |
| 1912 | June | 21 | Fairlie No 4 | Ayr | Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries | John Martin | 33 | Oncostman | Falls of roof | Deceased had fired a shot, and on returning shortly after with his neighbours to examine the face, the roof suddenly fell, displacing several props, and part of it caught and fatally crushed him. | |
| 1912 | June | 22 | Cobbinshaw No 1 | Edinburgh | Tarbrax Oil Co Ltd | Thomas Herbert | 33 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | He apparently remained kneeling on part of a shot after lighting the fuse, and received the full force of the explosion in his face. | |
| 1912 | June | 22 | Rosehall No13 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | William Jeffrey | 35 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He had fired two shots in a narrow place. He went back after an interval of 30 minutes, and was later discovered lying unconscious, apparently suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning ; artificial respiration was tried, but without effect. | To follow |
| 1912 | June | 24 | Arniston, Emily | Edinburgh | Arniston Coal Co Ltd | John Kirk | 22 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | As the working place of deceased and that of another miner were close together, they arranged to fire at the same time, each having two shots. They lighted both their shots, and the lights of both men were blown out by the fuse ; they then decided to hide behind the timbers in the heading which dips 1 in 2 instead of trying to get down to the place below. Both men were hit by the coal from the last shot. |
To follow |
| 1912 | June | 25 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Robert McIntosh | 78 | Gatekeeper | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Run over on railway by a locomotive as he was closing the gates. The engine driver had told him on going past not to shut them. | |
