| Date of Accident | Mine | County | Owner or Company | Name | Age | Occupation | Category | Cause of accident & remarks | Extra Information | ||
| 1913 | January | 3 | Lochore, Mary Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Henry Grossett | 41 | Pitheadman | On surface – by machinery | He was asleep on a seat in front of a vertical rod, which had arms for engaging the tappets for working the valves of a large Cornish pumping engine, and which moved up and down through a hole in the floor, making about two down strokes a minute. He apparently fell forward with his arm over the hole, into which it was pressed by the descending arm on the rod. He died about five weeks later, after having had the arm amputated. | |
| 1913 | January | 6 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | David Watson | 19 | Miner's Filler | Falls of side | He was filling coal when it began to weighten. Although warned to retire, he went forward and the coal fell on to him. He died about three hours later. | |
| 1913 | January | 6 | Roman Camp No 2 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Broxburn Oil Co Ltd | Patrick Shields | 38 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He was engaged in working up a piece of shale from the side of his road with a crowbar or pinch when the point of the bar slipped with the result that the head of the bar bruised and tore the blood vessels of the scrotum. He died on the following day. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 7 | Govan No 5 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | Thomas Sturgeon | 46 | Waggoner on Surface | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was about a train of wagons when the locomotive came upon the train and began pushing; by some means which could not be ascertained he got among the wagons, and 13 wagons of the train passed over him. He was aware that the locomotive was coming to the pit earlier than usual, and apparently he had not heard the whistle as it approached. | |
| 1913 | January | 8 | Wallyford | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | James Walker | 43 | Chief Mechanical Engineer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He had only been employed at the Colliery five weeks, and was engaged with the Under Manager in obtaining dimensions of the pumping plant in the shaft when he was caught by the descending " hanging-boards" attached to the pump rods, and so severely crushed that he died the same night. |
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| 1913 | January | 9 | Bailliesmuir | Lanark | Coltness Iron Co Ltd | Matthew Finlayson | 17 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was engaged in filling a tub when a piece of the rock roof, 13 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet, in the shape of a truncated prism fell, without warning, from above several props, and striking him on the head killed him instantly. | |
| 1913 | January | 10 | Kames No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Andrew Bell | 28 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was engaged holing at the face in an uphill "cut" in a stooping working, the inclination being 1 in 4, when from a lipe some feet further uphill, in advance of his face, the whole mass of coal slipped suddenly and he was caught and killed. | |
| 1913 | January | 10 | Tannochside No 3 | Lanark | Archd Russell Ltd | William Brannan | 32 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was in the act of " backening" coal to roadhead, which he had just taken off the face, when the roof suddenly fell upon him. The stone came away from an unseen foul back, and in its fall threw out, at least, four props. | |
| 1913 | January | 11 | Redding | Stirling | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | William Martin | 61 | Railway Surfaceman | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was found under the screens bleeding from the mouth, and died in a few minutes. No one saw the accident, but he probably fell against the end of the pinch bar he was moving the wagons with. | Newspaper report |
| Joseph Neilson died January 12 1913 - see under 1912 accidents (Sept 10 1912) | |||||||||||
| 1913 | January | 13 | Kenmuir No 4 | Lanark | J Dunn & Stephen Ltd | John Inverarity | 35 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | A heavy charge of gelignite, consisting of 22 ozs., was fired in a close place in a 2 ft. seam of coal, for the purpose of blasting through on a level above for ventilation, and after the shot exploded, deceased and his neighbour returned to the face in the expectation that it had blown through, which it failed to do, and both were overcome with the foul gases and rendered unconscious. Artificial respiration was applied and was successful in one case but unavailing in the other. | To follow |
| 1913 | January | 16 | Auchinreoch No 1 | Stirling | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Shaw | 64 | Brakesman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was employed at the bottom of a short cousie, and apparently signalled for the rake to be run without attaching the empty hutches, and, in consequence, the full hutches ran away. He was found immediately after on the ground suffering from bruises; these were considered slight, but he died from lung complications on the 24th January. | |
| 1913 | January | 17 | Carfin No 6 | Lanark | Wm Dixon Ltd | Arthur McInally | 14 | Drawer | Falls of roof | The deceased was sitting by the roadside when a large stone, 3 feet by 3 feet 4 inches by 6 inches, fell on to him. Another man sitting beside him was injured. The roadway was adjacent to an old waste, and should have been systematically timbered. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 17 | Gauchalland No 4 | Ayr | Gauchalland Coal Co | James Clark | 28 | Brusher | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased and another man were detaching a loaded tub from one cuddy chain preparatory to attaching it to another to lower it further downhill. Deceased was in front of the tub, and for some reason the stop block provided was not used, and the tub overpowered him, jammed him against the roof, and suffocated him. | To follow |
| 1913 | January | 20 | Portland No 1, Kirkstyle Pit | Ayr | Portland Colliery Co Ltd | Robert Humphrey | 58 | Foreman Engineer | On surface – sundries | Deceased was directing the lifting of part of a heavy crane with a 1-ton hand crane when the jib chain broke and he was struck by the falling jib. His skull was fractured and he died three days later. The chain of the crane, which was owned by contracting engineers, was an old one, much worn, and in defective condition. |
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| 1913 | January | 20 | Douglas Park | Lanark | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | George McLellan | 19 | Repairer | Falls of roof | Deceased and his brother were engaged repairing a roadway when suddenly the stone which they were about to secure fell and fatally crushed him. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 22 | Holytown | Lanark | James Nimmo & Co Ltd | James Wright | 50 | Dirt Runner | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased was crossing the main line for empty wagons on his way to the pithead, when a locomotive, belonging to the Caledonian Railway Co., caught him, and the engine with 5 wagons passed over and killed him. He was blind in his left eye and the train approached from that side. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 24 | Gilmilnscroft No 6 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | William Gilroy | 38 | Stone Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was engaged boring a hole for a shot with an "Ingersoll " hammer drill, when the drill struck some remnants of gelignite from a former shot, and he was killed instantly. The shot hole was being bored some distance from the position of the former shot, but was dipping at an angle towards it. | To follow |
| 1913 | January | 24 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Smith | 50 | Wagon Attendant | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was lowering a full wagon, and, just as it approached a stationary one, he stepped in front, presumably to couple the wagons, and was crushed between the buffers. | To follow |
| 1913 | January | 26 | Bardykes | Lanark | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | Michael Garrity | 42 | Repairer | Explosions of fire damp | (12.30am) Deceased was engaged with three other men and a chargeman in heightening a haulage road. A quantity of gas had collected in a hole formed when a fall of the roof took place after the timber was drawn. An indicator safety lamp was hung up on the highest available support, but during the chargeman's absence a naked light was attached to this safety lamp with the result that the gas became ignited, and Garrity received such injuries that he died on the 3rd February. |
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| 1913 | January | 27 | Carfin No 3 | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Thomas Nugent | 37 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was taking off coal from the face when a fail of roof fatally injured him. In taking off the coal he exposed an unseen lype in roof. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 29 | Earnock No 1 | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | William Ferguson | 42 | Fireman | Falls of side | The deceased was examining an overhang and side stone which a brusher had just tried to pinch down, when it suddenly fell on to him and killed him instantly. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 31 | Viewpark | Lanark | R Addie & Sons (Collieries) Ltd | Thomas Weir | 46 | Miner | Falls of roof | The deceased was sitting working at the face when a fall of roof occurred which killed him instantly. The place was well timbered but the fall came away from between two lypes. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | January | 31 | Leven No 2 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | George Hunter | 22 | Bencher | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He was assisting to move a girder when it fell on his toe and cut it. Tetanus set in and he died on 21st February. | |
| 1913 | February | 4 | Dalmeny (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Dalmeny Oil Co Ltd | James Malone | 46 | Miner's Drawer | Falls of side | Deceased was standing by whilst a miner was liberating some side which they thought would knock out a tree. The tree which was 8 feet 6 inches long, was knocked out and fell towards deceased instead of in the direction it was expected to fall; the end of it grazed the front of his abdomen. He was able to walk home but died in the Hospital about fifteen hours later. | To follow |
| 1913 | February | 4 | Shettleston | Lanark | Mount Vernon Colliery Co Ltd | Alexander Wright | 19 | Pithead Worker | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He was injured by being knocked into the upcast shaft, by the cover, lifted by the cage. He was prevented from falling into the shaft by his feet, which were caught between the cover and the pithead plates. Apparently the engineman " went away" without having received the usual signal. He died on the 11th February from his injuries. | |
| 1913 | February | 6 | Kenmuirhill No 2 | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | John Robertson | 33 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased and others were travelling up a dook road, some distance behind a loaded rake being hauled to the top, when the rake ran back for a distance of 160 yards and met him. The rake had unhooked from the rope at a flat part of the road, and the " jock " failing to act it came back. There was a good road for the men to travel parallel to the dook road, but it is a little longer and the men preferred to go by the dook road. | To follow |
| 1913 | February | 6 | Lochore, Mary Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Wilson | 39 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was loading coal on to a conveyor, which had been put to work in the place during the previous week, when a piece of stone, 5 feet by 2 feet by 4 inches, came away from the roof and fell on his back. There had been a crush on the place, but the stone fell without any warning. The place was only 3 feet 3 inches high. He died five days later. | |
| 1913 | February | 7 | Pennyvenie No 4 | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | Robert Millar | 17 | Miner's Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased was taking a loaded tub along a branch road. It was filled rather high above the top of the body of the tub, and caught a crowntree, swept it out, and about 6 cwts. of broken sandstone fell on him, killing him instantly. | |
| 1913 | February | 7 | Swinhill | Lanark | Darngavil Coal Co Ltd | Walter Lott | 36 | Fireman | Explosions of fire damp | (8.30am) The deceased entered an old road in which gas had accumulated. He exploded the gas with his naked light, and was thus instantly killed. In thus entering this place he contravened General Rule 64 (1 and 2). |
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| 1913 | February | 11 | Bogfield | Lanark | J Dunn & Stephen Ltd | Wincas Putras (Pole) | 30 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | The deceased was taking some compressed powder out of his can when, by some means, the explosive became ignited. He was burned about the body, arms, and head, and died from the injuries received on the following day. | |
| 1913 | February | 12 | Kenmuirhill No 2 | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | James Frew | 49 | Repairer | Falls of roof | The deceased was struck on the head by a piece of stone whilst repairing on a haulage road. The stone fell from a lype and came away suddenly without giving any warning. | |
| 1913 | February | 15 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | William Miller | 47 | Mechanical Engineer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | Deceased had just made some measurements for the purpose of fitting up gates at the entrance to the dip side of the shaft, and for some unaccountable reason he stepped into the cage seat just as the dip cage descended, and the cage with a load of two empty tubs came on him and he was killed instantly. | |
| 1913 | February | 17 | Banknock, Livingstone Pit | Stirling | Banknock Coal Co Ltd | James Marshall | 18 | Assistant Mine Surveyor | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He was passing over the casing of a haulage wheel when his foot got into the wheel, and his leg was severely crushed. Died February 18th. |
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| 1913 | February | 18 | Polmaise No 1 & 2 | Stirling | Archd Russell Ltd | Archibald Harper | 25 | Machineman | Falls of roof | He was working in front of a Coal Cutting Machine when a stone fell out between the trees and killed him. Another man was also badly injured. Straps instead of trees would have prevented this accident. |
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| 1913 | February | 22 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Duncan | 27 | Brusher | Falls of roof | They were backbrushing an airway when about 30 tons of the roof fell without warning, running out two bars set under it. The bodies were recovered about three hours later. The Doctor certified that death was due to suffocation in each case. |
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| William Simpson | 23 | Brusher | |||||||||
| 1913 | February | 25 | Newbattle, Lingerwood Pit | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Lamb | 21 | Drawer | Falls of side | He was engaged filling a hutch in a 7-foot seam when the head coal, which had been holed 5 feet deep, fell off the two sprags which had been set under it, and crushed him. He died on the 12th March. Had a second row of sprags been set the coal would have remained in position. | |
| 1913 | February | 26 | Dunsyston | Robert Clark | Not employed - not listed | Newspaper report | |||||
| 1913 | February | 27 | Dunnikier No 2, Pannie Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Waddell | 29 | Bogieman | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was riding on the bogie in front of a rake of 12 full hutches, which was gravitating towards the shaft siding at 5 to 6 miles per hour, when the bogie and the first two hutches left the rails, and he was crushed between a hutch and the side of the road. He died two days later. | |
| 1913 | February | 27 | Lassodie Mill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Henry Gray | 29 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – irruptions of water | Deceased was engaged in driving a heading towards a pump lodgement which contained a small quantity of water. Short boreholes were being put in, and orders given that if water was found coming through the men were to withdraw. Water came through and deceased and his drawer withdrew for a time, but returned to the place, and holed to within 1 foot 6 inches of the lodgment. A block of coal between two slips then gave way, and deceased was carried by the water and the debris to the foot of the heading, which had an inclination of about 1 in 2, a distance of 200 feet, where he was found dead. Death was due to shock and suffocation. The drawer was carried down for a distance, but escaped with severe bruises. |
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| 1913 | February | 27 | Bannockburn | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | James McCallum | 21 | Miner | Shaft accidents – falling from surface | He was corning up the shaft with seven other men when the winder failed to stop the cage at the proper place. The cage was carried up to the pulley, and McCallum jumping out fell down the shaft. The other men escaped. |
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| 1913 | March | 6 | Hopetoun, Balbardie No 2 | Linlithgow | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Edward Keenan | 24 | Miner | Falls of side | Deceased was taking down the coal which a shot had broken, and probably went too near, or under, it to bring out a lump of coal to finish off a tub with. A piece of this coal and stone fell and killed him instantly. | |
| 1913 | March | 8 | Rosehall No 12 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | James Young | 33 | Blacksmith | On surface – sundries | Deceased went inside the box of a dross elevator, to take out a part of a pulley, which had fallen inside, and, while doing so, it is thought he put his foot on a bucket and the chain moved, and he was fatally crushed between the bucket and a cross beam. He was in charge of some alterations, and before going inside he should have fixed the chain so that it could not move. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | March | 10 | Drum (Fireclay) | Stirling | Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd | William Hoggan | 65 | Roadsman | On surface – sundries | Deceased had taken a quantity of gelignite, which was frozen, out of the hut to thaw it. He filled one warming-pan and then proceeded to break a stick of the gelignite, which was too long to get into another warming pan, when an explosion occurred and killed him, and slightly injured a miner who was in the hut. | To follow |
| 1913 | March | 13 | Camp | Lanark | Camp Coal Co Ltd | James Campbell | 54 | Ostler | Shaft accidents - falling from part way down | He was entering the cage on the ground level after having signalled to the winder to lower it. In his haste he opened the gate on the opposite side of the shaft, and stepped into the open shaft. | |
| 1913 | March | 18 | Calderbank | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | George Cochrane | 57 | Engineman | On surface – sundries | Deceased, for the purpose of fixing a box to contain flowers on a ledge, was knocking off the end of a spar constituting a fence at the entrance to an electrical power station, when he overbalanced and fell to the ground a distance of 12 feet and was killed. | |
| 1913 | March | 21 | Oakley | Fife | Oakley Collieries Ltd | James Shepherd | 43 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged with his son in brushing a place when a large piece of stone came away from some unseen breaks, smashing the timber and killing him. The stone sounded quite good when tested by the fireman 10 minutes previously. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | March | 21 | Giffnock | Renfrew | Giffnock Collieries Ltd | Peter Waicikansky | 29 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was opening out a place which had not been worked for some time, and while under some broken roof at a narrow place between a pack and the coal face he was caught by a fall and suffocated. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | March | 25 | Balgonie | Fife | Balgonie Colliery Co | John Slater | 51 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was sitting in a lye waiting for a rake of empty hutches coming in, when he was caught, and fatally crushed against a rake of full hutches standing in the lye, by a runaway full hutch from the top end of the lye, and which he mistook for an empty hutch. | |
| 1913 | March | 27 | Eglinton No 1 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | Robert McGreavie | 39 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and another brusher had just started to their shift's work, and, deceased, who was in charge, had knocked out the first prop under the brushing, which was lipey and bad, when a large stone fell on him and killed him. A prop withdrawer should have been used and the accident would not have occurred. The Colliery Owners were at fault in not providing such an appliance. |
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| 1913 | March | 28 | Lindsay | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Duff, Junr | 30 | Brusher | Falls of roof | They were engaged in widening a siding when a large fall of roof occurred, which swung out four sets of timber and buried them. The bodies were recovered about three hours later. Death was probably due to suffocation. | To follow |
| John Gilbert | 55 | Brusher | |||||||||
| 1913 | April | 2 | Newcraighall | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | William Kay | 31 | Drawer | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged in pushing a loaded hutch from the working face out to the wheel brae when a fall of stone came away and killed him. The place was timbered, but the trees swung out of position; possibly had distance pieces been inserted between the trees the accident might have been prevented. | |
| 1913 | April | 3 | Carberry | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | Robert Watson | 22 | Banksman | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | The deceased was turning round, after putting two empty hutches on to the cage, when he was struck by another empty, and knocked back into the shaft just as the cage descended, and was fatally crushed. A controller was provided to regulate the empties, and, by some means, this had evidently been half turned round, and so allowed another hutch to pass. Possibly Watson had only brought one hutch over the previous time and had forgotten to turn the controller. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | April | 7 | Arthur | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Alexander Munro | 41 | Miner | Falls of side | He was working alone in a place and was found underneath a long length of coal which had fallen over on him, inflicting injuries which probably caused death instantly. The coal was known to be dangerous, as it was surrounded by a lype, a hitch, a loose side, a smooth roof, and it was lying at a steep inclination, but it was considered that proper precautions were being taken to support it. | |
| 1913 | April | 8 | Rosehall No 14 | Lanark | Robert Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | Robert Bell | 25 | Chainer | Other haulage accidents | Deceased left the top dook road and rode on the chain as usual. The rake consisted of ten tubs, and in the seventh from the chain five props, 7 feet long, were placed, with the projecting ends facing the rise ; on the way down something happened causing deceased to stop the rake, and after everything was in readiness the rake again proceeded, and shortly after it suddenly stopped of its accord. A workman thought the rake was long in coming to the bottom of the dook, and he proceeded up and found the deceased in the sixth tub with the one end of a 7 feet prop against him, and the other end jammed against a crown in centre of road. It is thought that deceased had some trouble with the props while descending the dook, and that he placed one across the sixth tub and sat with it to keep it in its place, when one end came off and fell into tub, and the other projected up just as it was near a low crown. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | April | 8 | Ardeer, East No 3 Pit | Ayr | Glengarnock Iron & Steel Co Ltd | Edward Dale | 16 | Cage Attendant | Shaft accidents – falling from surface | Deceased was employed to put empty tubs on the cage on the night shift, There was no automatic shaft fence at the pithead level, and he, for some reason, opened the swing gate when the cage was not there, and pushed an empty tub into the shaft, and fell after it. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | April | 8 | Niddrie No 13 | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Henry Farquhar | 26 | Miner | Falls of side | This man was engaged in holing, in the Little Splint Seam in No. 2 Level, North Side, where the measures lie at a very steep inclination, when a piece of coal came away without any warning from a " back " and killed him. | |
| 1913 | April | 9 | Little Raith, Gordon Pit | Fife | Lochgelly Iron & Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Haxton | 52 | Repairer | Falls of roof | He was taking down some roof and liberated a large stone adjacent to it, which fell on him inflicting injuries to which he succumbed about four hours later. | |
| 1913 | April | 14 | Cairnhill | Lanark | Cairnhill Coal Co | William Stead | 26 | Miner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | Deceased was proceeding along a haulage road, dipping towards the shaft, while the haulage rope was in motion, to his work in company with two other workmen, when a loaded tub became detached from the rope and ran amain. All the men attempted to reach the nearest manhole, but deceased in the confusion went to the wrong side and stepped right in front of the moving tub and was crushed. He died from his injuries three months later. The men were late owing to having overslept. When they started off along the road the haulage had not begun, but it did so while they were on the way. They should have been at the inbye end of the road before the haulage was set in motion. | To follow |
| 1913 | April | 14 | Kames | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | David McSkimming | 22 | Attendant on Dross Screen | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | Deceased's duties were to attend to the dross screens, including the movement of the wagons. No one saw the accident, but apparently he had allowed 2 wagons to move too fast in bringing them to the screen, and in colliding with the wagon at the screen he somehow got between and was crushed by the buffers. | Newspaper Report |
| 1913 | April | 16 | Pirnie | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Donaldson | 63 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was taking a round off the coal face when a large stone fell from the roof killing him instantly. The stone had straps set under it, but they, being supported only at one end, were swung out by the fall. | To follow |
| 1913 | April | 22 | Kenmuirhill No 2 | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | Peter McKenzie | 32 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was in the act of making up a shot, and, before putting the fuse into the pellet of powder, he took his knife to scrape the hole through which the fuse was to pass, and, in doing so, he caused some of the particles of gunpowder to fall on to the flame of his lamp. He was burned so severely on his hands and arms that he died on the 28th inst. | |
| 1913 | April | 23 | Lumphinnans No 11 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Walker | 32 | Fireman | Falls of side | Deceased was talking to the miner when a piece of coal fell off at an exposed back across the working face and fatally crushed him against a prop. The seam was 4 ft. 7 ½ in. thick in all, and the dip 1 in 4. No rances or sprags had been set against the "hanging " coal. | To follow |
| 1913 | April | 28 | Whitehill | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | John Cossar | 35 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was commencing to work out some old stoops, in the Great Seam along an old haulage road, by the longwall method, when a large stone fell from a break as the coal was removed and killed him. | To follow |
| 1913 | April | 29 | Blairadam | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John McMillan | 14 | Drawer | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was drawing a tub to the horse road, and had to run it down two short cousie braes. He seems to have had difficulty in getting it to start over the brae head, and was caught between the tub and a tree in the centre of the road when it did start. He was too young for the work. |
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| 1913 | May | 1 | Pumpherson No 5 Oil Shale Mine | Edinburgh | Pumpherston Oil Co Ltd | John Scott | 69 | Miner | Falls of side | He was holing in the shale when a piece above, which had been loosened by the shale being taken out, fell from between two smooth joints, previously unseen, and struck him on the legs. He died ten hours later from shock. | |
| 1913 | May | 7 | Aitken | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | William Purvis | 19 | Miner | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | He was getting down a piece of top coal with his pick, and the coal coming away more readily than he expected, he slipped forward and his left temple came into contact with the pick point. This caused a scratch which was so slight that deceased did not have it attended to for some days. Blood poisoning intervened, however, and he died on July 15th. | |
| 1913 | May | 8 | Bowhill No 2 Pit (ironstone) | Ayr | Dalmellington Iron Co Ltd | Robert Neil | 54 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | The deceased apparently uncoupled his horse from a rake of six hutches, when he slipped and was crushed beneath the first hutch. | |
| 1913 | May | 11 | Raploch | Lanark | Raploch Coal Co Ltd | Robert Rundell | 37 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | The fireman and an assistant were engaged cutting a hitch at the top of a cuddie brae. They charged a shot containing 1 1/1 lbs. of gelignite, and proceeded down the brae some 40 yards to await its going off. When the shot went off the concussion extinguished both their open lights. Shortly afterwards they heard a hutch running down the brae; thinking it was the "cuddy" that had broken away, they stepped across to the empty side, and the fireman, being uppermost, was struck by an empty hutch which, they allege, ran from a side road off the brae, and which was started away by the concussion of the shot. I am inclined to think they were either using this hutch as a shield from the shot, or that they lit the shot and then jumped into the empty and rode down the brae. He died four days later. | To follow |
| 1913 | May | 12 | Loanhead Burghlee No 3 | Edinburgh | Shotts Iron Co Ltd | Peter Genman | 55 | Oversman | Miscellaneous underground – sundries | While lifting a loaded hutch on to the road he ruptured his aorta, and died at 8.50 a.m. the following day. | |
| 1913 | May | 15 | Hopetoun No 6 (Oil shale) | Linlithgow | Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Co Ltd | Charles McQueen | 36 | Miner | Falls of roof | He had holed a piece of shale and attempted to pull it down, but failing to do so went under it again, without setting sprags, to hole it deeper, and while doing so the shale fell on him and killed him. The Fireman should have fenced the place off—there was no spare timber within 10 yards of the face, as required by the Act. | To follow |
| 1913 | May | 15 | Lochhead | Fife | Wemyss Coal Co Ltd | William Russell | 24 | Miner | Falls of side | He was working alone at the coal face at the time of the accident, but the miners in the adjoining places heard him wedging down coal. From the position of the body it is probable that the coal in falling struck and knocked out a prop, and that this struck deceased on the temple. He was rendered unconscious and died about eight hours later without ever having regained consciousness. | |
| 1913 | May | 15 | Auldton | Lanark | Brand & Co | John Dollan | 20 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was cutting into his coal at the roadhead of his longwall place, the coal having been machine cut and the road brushed close up the previous night, when a large stone fell off from an unseen lype over the cut coal and killed him instantly. | |
| 1913 | May | 15 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Frank Robertson | 50 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased and another brusher were timbering a level, but because it appeared to be secure, had left a stretch of rock roof untimbered. A piece of this roof fell on to Robertson, and killed him. A seam, 12 feet above had been worked out, and this no doubt had affected the rock in question. | |
| 1913 | May | 19 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | Ferguson Meek | 38 | Coal Cutter Machineman | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | He fell on the revolving bar of a coal cutting machine, and received such injuries, that he died about eight hours later. | |
| 1913 | May | 21 | Lethans No 2 | Fife | Wilsons & Clyde Coal Co Ltd | John Turnbull, Senr | 49 | Oncostman | Falls of roof | He was preparing to set some props to some bad roof under which he intended to build a pillar afterwards, when a large stone fell on him from against a lype, indicting such injuries that he died five days later. A Coal Cutting Machine had just cut past the place, and it is thought, that this threw on weight. The roadside building would have been erected under the stone the previous night had the brushers attended their work. |
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| 1913 | May | 21 | Lindsay | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | Thomas Fenton | 30 | Coal Cutter Driver | Miscellaneous underground – by machinery | A stone from the roof had fallen, and was resting with one end on the body of the machine, and the other on the wheel operating the starting switch. Deceased was attempting to push it off the machine whilst standing on the disc. In doing so he caused the wheel to revolve, and so started the machine. His right leg was carried partly round with the disc, and was completely severed. He died about four hours later. |
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| 1913 | May | 21 | Kenmuirhill No 2 | Lanark | Glasgow Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Davies | 33 | Drawer | Miscellaneous underground - electricity | Deceased, while handling one of three unarmoured cables without authority, grasped a repaired part and received a shock which killed him. | To follow Lanarkshire accident pages |
| 1913 | May | 27 | Lochore, Mary Pit | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | George Leadbetter | 33 | Shaftsman | Shaft accidents – overwinding | They were riding on the top of the cage, which was loaded with timber, for the purpose of attending to some air rhones which were being sent down on top of the cage. The engineman failed to check the speed of the descending cage, which crashed into the pit bottom. There was no overwinding prevention contrivance fitted to the winding engine. Leadbeatter died on the way to the Aitken Colliery, to which he was being conveyed underground, a few hours later, and Bartie died on the 10th June. | To follow |
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| 1913 | May | 27 | Viewpark | Lanark | R Addie & Sons (Collieries) Ltd | Charles Stevenson, Junr | 19 | Drawer | Falls of roof | He was loading a hutch with coal at the heading of a conveyor wall, when a fall of roof occurred. The roof usually consisted of strong sandstone post and was not timbered on the roadways, but at this point a ply of rocky bands some 2 ½ inches thick ran in, and it was this ply of bands that burst away suddenly from the roof, he died three days later. | To follow |
| 1913 | May | 28 | Alloa, Jellyholm Pit | Clackmannan | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Joseph Hunter | 64 | Miner | Falls of roof | He was engaged in filling a hutch when a stone fell from between two lypes, injuring him so severely that he died the following day. | |
| 1913 | May | 28 | Auchincruive No 3 | Ayr | Wm Baird & Co Ltd | James Kelly | 16 | Stone Picker | On surface – by machinery | Deceased was sweeping up coal-dust from gangways, which are used for oiling purposes at the screening plant, and as he passed a conveyor on the floor level his foot was caught, he was dragged in and so badly injured that he died four hours later. He was doing what he did with his foreman's sanction. The foreman should not have allowed him to do such work when the machinery was in motion. | To follow |
| 1913 | May | 29 | Mossbeath No 1 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Kelly | 25 | Miner | Falls of side | He was at the roadhead filling coal, which his brother was throwing back to him from the coal face, into a hutch, when a large portion of the roof coal fell on him without any warning, killing him instantly. | |
| 1913 | June | 2 | Clydeside | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | William Kane | 50 | Dirt Picker | On surface – by machinery | The screen engine was standing on its dead centre, and when steam was admitted it did not move. The engineman in charge of it called deceased to assist him to turn the flywheel round, and, without shutting off the steam, they pulled at the wheel, and when it moved it revolved rapidly, with the result that deceased was thrown down and crushed between the spokes of the wheel and the floor of the engine house. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | June | 4 | Carberry | Edinburgh | Edinburgh Collieries Co Ltd | John Casey | 31 | Brusher | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged in rebrushing a horse road, the roof of which was much disturbed and broken by the workings on the low side of it and also by the workings in seams above it. At the time of the accident he was preparing to set some timber, when a piece of the roof fell and killed him. The fall displaced some timber previously set by him. | |
| 1913 | June | 6 | Ellismuir | Lanark | United Collieries Ltd | Thomas Milligan | 26 | Fireman | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | Deceased was making his inspection of the working faces in a longwall working, when he reached one of the roadheads a brushing shot, above where he was, exploded, and he was buried by the debris blown down. The brusher who lighted the shot failed to adequately protect the place in order to warn anyone likely to approach by way of the face. | To follow |
| 1913 | June | 6 | Burdiehouse Limestone Mine | Edinburgh | Midlothian Limestone Co Ltd | Charles Girdwood | 38 | Miner | Metalliferous mines | He was working at the face of the main level, which is 40 ft high, when a stone fell from a "lype" on the left side and fatally injured him. Crowns with cleading above them were placed 15 ft. above the pavement of the level, but these were carried away by the fall. |
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| 1913 | June | 9 | Niddrie | Edinburgh | Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co Ltd | Robert Stalker | 27 | Engine Fitter | On surface – sundries | He was employed by a firm of engineers who were erecting a coal washing plant at the colliery, and was helping another man to carry a heavy valve along a 9-inch plank when he overbalanced and fell to the ground, a distance of 27 feet. He died three hours later. | To follow |
| 1913 | June | 13 | Earnock | Lanark | John Watson Ltd | Nathaniel Queen | 32 | Driver and Cousieman | Other haulage accidents | Deceased was running a rake in a cousie brae when he apparently lost control of the hutches. When the empty hutches reached the top of the brae they swung across towards him, knocked out several trees, one of which struck him and broke his neck. | |
| 1913 | June | 13 | Newbattle | Edinburgh | Lothian Coal Co Ltd | David Gordon | 24 | Miner | Falls of roof | Deceased was engaged in extracting a pillar, and was busy clearing away the loose coal off the level preparatory to beginning a new " lift," when a large stone fell from the roof and instantly killed him. | |
| 1913 | June | 13 | Bowhill | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | James Dewar | 45 | Miner | Falls of roof | He went back about 4 yards into the waste for his axe, when a large fall of roof took place without any warning whatever and completely buried him. When his body was recovered an hour later life was found to be extinct, death being due to suffocation. | To follow |
| 1913 | June | 15 | Bourtreehill, Capringstone No 7 | Ayr | Bourtreehill Coal Co Ltd | Archibald Ferguson | 32 | Fireman | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | The deceased had been working in the shaft, and when ascending at the end of his shift the cage ran away to the bottom, owing to the drum coming loose from its fastenings on the drum shaft. When found some 20 minutes later life was extinct. Another fireman was with him in the cage at the time and received serious injuries. There was no brake attached to the drum shaft, contrary to Section 40 (10) of the Coal Mines Act, 1911. | To follow |
| 1913 | June | 17 | Lumphinnans No 1 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | John Blair | 16 | Pony Driver | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was found dead with his head under the buffer of the first of five full hutches standing on a gradient of about 1 in 25. Probably he was attempting to lift a hutch on the road which was the first of a rake of six hutches, and having spragged the five hutches above mentioned, he slipped and knocked out the sprag and allowed the five hutches to run forward on to him. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | June | 17 | Prestongrange, Morrisonhaven No 1 | Haddington | Summerlee Iron Co Ltd | James Clark | 39 | Road Repairer | Falls of side | Deceased was engaged, along with a number of other men, in repairing the main haulage road, when a large piece of sandstone fell off the side, and so injured him that he died in half an hour. |
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| 1913 | June | 19 | Easter Jaw | Stirling | Carron Co | Andrew Addie | 54 | Sinking Contractor | Shaft accidents – whilst ascending or descending by machinery | He was being lowered slowly down the Pit with two other men, in the kettle, when a hook on the signal wire, which one of the men was passing through his hand, caught in the bottom of the kettle. The engineman, seeing the hammer hung up, took it for a "hung signal " and kept on lowering. When the kettle was nearly horizontal it swung clear and the deceased was struck by a part of the apparatus and killed on the spot. | To follow |
| 1913 | June | 21 | Camp | Lanark | Camp Coal Co Ltd | John Quinn | 46 | Brusher | Miscellaneous underground – by explosives | He had bored a shot hole and then gone out to get the charge, when he, by some means, ignited the powder, and was so severely burned that he died two days later. | |
| 1913 | June | 21 | Carnock | Stirling | Alloa Coal Co Ltd | Michael King | 39 | Labourer | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | He was assisting in moving some wagons and was crushed between the wagon he had moved and one which had followed it. The brake of the latter was stiff in the guard, and did not hold the brake blocks against the wheels by its own weight, as is usual. | Newspaper report [NB gives name as Michael Kelly] |
| 1913 | June | 24 | Leven No 4 | Fife | Fife Coal Co Ltd | George Hamblin | 19 | Cut-chain Runner | Haulage – run over or crushed by trams & tubs | He was engaged in attaching the chain to a full hutch on a cut-chain brae when another full hutch from the bench above ran down and struck him. The hutch was being lowered from the "face" of the brae on to the bench below, where the runner expected a stop block to be in position. This block was not in position, and the hutch went down the brae and struck deceased, killing him instantly. | |
| 1913 | June | 26 | Rosehall No 13 | Lanark | R Addie & Sons Collieries Ltd | John Gilligan | 23 | Labourer | Shaft accidents – miscellaneous | He had finished putting the empty hutches on to the cage and was standing clear when the cage was belled away—by some means or other he fell into it, and was crushed between the pithead beams and the top of the cage and instantly killed. | Newspaper report |
| 1913 | June | 27 | Coursington | Lanark | Wishaw Coal Co Ltd | Samuel Blakely | 14 | Dirt Picker | On surface – railways, sidings or tramways | While waiting for work to start he had come down from the picking tables and was leaning on the buffer of a wagon near the screens. The shock of a second wagon coming against it threw him between the rails. The first wagon passed over him without hurting him, but the second caught his legs, inflicting severe injuries. He died in hospital after operation on 29th. A notice was posted forbidding lads to leave the place of work without permission. | To follow |
