Auchlochan Colliery

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Barrie, William, 16 Sep 1897, (accident: 11 Sep 1897), aged 60, Fireman, Deceased and two others were brushing a short piece of a main road which had become too low. He had driven a wedge into the brushing and stepped back a few feet to lift a crowbar, when a quantity of fireclay slipped off the roadside and fell upon his legs, breaking them in several places. He succumbed to his injuries 5 days later

Brown, William, 05 Oct 1878, aged 13, Coupler, Fell out of cage while ascending shaft

Bulloch, Duncan, 27 Jan 1922, 9.30 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 40, Miner, He was engaged on a longwall face throwing coal when a large stone, 9 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, fell from the roof and killed him. Props were used as roof supports and 5 or 6 were displaced. The place was inspected by a fireman about two hours prior to the accident and reported safe. Straps would have provided better support.

Cairney, Andrew, 28 Nov 1924, 9.45 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 38, Machineman, He had finished coal cutting for the shift and had started to "redd" the trailing cable along the face into a gate road. Apparently the cable was fast along the face and deceased crawled along the 2 ft. 3 in. thick wall to loosen it, when the roof started "on weight." Deceased attempted to reach safety, but was trapped and buried under a fall of about 3½ tons of roof. Death was practically instantaneous. This place had been cut some 2 hours previously and had been examined by the fireman 1 hour previously, he considered it well timbered and apparently safe. It was discovered after the accident that the fall had come from two hidden lypes

Clark, James, 18 Jan 1924, 11.30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 54, Miner, A shot had been fired in a narrow place about 1½ hours previously, but the "head coal" failed to come down; deceased was working on the lower side of it trying to bring it down, when it unexpectedly fell and struck him on the body. He died about 3 hours later. Had he attacked the coal from the rise side, the accident would not have occurred. The place was examined by a fireman a few minutes previously and found safe. No timber was displaced by the fall

Downie, William, 26 Dec 1891, 8.15 a.m., aged 36, Collier, Crushed by tub

Graham, Alexander, 18 Jun 1894, 7.40 a.m., aged 46, Miner, Fall of stone

Hunter, John, 17 Feb 1922, (accident: 16 Feb 1922, 4.45 p.m., 2nd hour of shift), aged 27, Coal cutting machineman, He was in charge of a bar coal cutter. He had changed a set of cutting picks and was about to arrange the haulage rope for drawing in when he was caught by the revolving bar and sustained injuries from which he died the following day. He was alone at the moment and exactly what happened is not known

Kerr, David, 04 Apr 1874, aged 59, Labourer, Ran a hutch into the pit at the low scaffold when the cage was not there. Gate standing open

Smart, Daniel, 22 Sep 1914, aged 48, Fireman, The deceased was attempting to lower a hutch down a brae by going in front of it. He was over-powered and crushed between the hutch and the side of the level road. He committed a breach of General Regulation 26

Watson, Daniel, 13 Sep 1911, (accident: 04 Sep 1911), aged 36, Washing Foreman, He was assisting another man to push a roll of washing riddle over the front of a loft when one of the wires caught his jacket, knocked him off his balance and drew him over on to the floor 11 feet below. He received injuries to his head from which he died on the 13th

Wyllie, John, 04 Jan 1900, aged 39, Roadsman, 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