Blairhall Colliery

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Armour, Peter, 23 Jun 1920, Killed by a fall of roof

Boyle, John, 11 Apr 1911, aged 43, Pit Sinker, These men were in the shaft, three of them on a scaffold, and the other in the kettle, when, owing to an accident at the winch, the rope came off the drum and allowed the scaffold to fall to the bottom of the shaft, and in falling it caught the man in the kettle and knocked him out of it [More information ...]

Doohan, Hugh, 17 Jun 1904, (accident: 24 Feb 1904), aged 51, Miner, While separating inferior stone from ironstone, a spark flew into the eye of deceased. He died on 17th June, 1904. A post-mortem examination was made, and the medical men reported that death was directly due to the injury to the eye

Dunsmore, John, 10 Aug 1934, aged 14, crushed between the moving platform of a conveyor table and a support

Ferguson, John, 22 Oct 1914, (accident: 15 Oct 1914), aged 38, Shunter, The colliery locomotive was pulling some wagon out of a siding when he saw that the brake or the last wagon was down. He attempted to lift the brake handle by rising his break stick over the wagon spring as a lever ; he, however, pushed the stick too far in, and the spokes of the wheel caught it and caused him to be thrown under the wheels of the moving wagon. He was severely injured and died a week later

Gannon, James, 10 Nov 1919, aged 64, Run over by locomotive

Gentleman, Robert, 04 Oct 1921, Crushed by cage

Gunn, James, 24 Feb 1928, Fall of roof

Haddow, James, 25 Oct 1894, 11 p.m., aged 37, Contractor brusher, Explosion of firedamp

Harrower, William, 07 Apr 1894, 9 a.m., aged 48, Miner, Fall of stone

Hogg, Henry, 18 Apr 1930, aged 51, Conveyor belt accident

Hutton, John, 20 Nov 1921, Fall of roof

Kane, Francis, 13 Dec 1933, aged 18, Electrocuted

Kerr, William, 29 Feb 1924, 9.30 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 48, Assistant Wheeler, Deceased was in a three rail self acting incline where he had just put the empty rope in the right track and signalled all clear. The full tubs were lowered, but as no empty tubs were attached they ran away and fatally crushed him, killing him instantly. The wheeler thought he had had a previous signal from the bottom, but no empty tubs were there. Self acting inclines should be cleared of all persons before tubs are lowered

Malcolm, Andrew, 25 Apr 1924, 6.0 a.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 35, Shot-firer, Killed by an explosion of firedamp [More information ...]

Malcolmson, Donald, 17 Dec 1924, 4.0 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 54, Repairer, Along with two others and a fireman he was brushing an old road, the stoops on each side of which were being extracted. The road was rising about 1 in 3 to the face. He was on the rise side knocking out the last of about seven props when the roof gave way; his escape being blocked by falling timber, he was killed instantly, his skull being fractured. The fall measured about 20 ft. long by 8 ft. wide by 3 ft. thick and would weigh about 25 tons. About ten bars and a girder were displaced by the fall. A safety contrivance was not used

McCallum, Alexander, 11 Apr 1911, aged 39, Pit Sinker, These men were in the shaft, three of them on a scaffold, and the other in the kettle, when, owing to an accident at the winch, the rope came off the drum and allowed the scaffold to fall to the bottom of the shaft, and in falling it caught the man in the kettle and knocked him out of it [More information ...]

McCann, Michael, 18 Nov 1913, (accident: 01 Nov 1913), aged 42, Miner, He had just fired a shot in the coal at his working place, which was being worked to the rise, the inclination being about 1 in 6, and the thickness of the seam about 6 feet 6 inches. he was shovelling away some of the coal blown down by the shot without, it is said, having made a proper examination of the place. A slab of coal from the upper part of the coal face fell on him. He died on the 18th

McDougall, James, 13 Jul 1918, Killed by a fall of coal

McPherson, Walter, 14 Dec 1891, 2 p.m., aged 24, Labourer, Run over by waggon

Nevins, John, 01 Dec 1933, aged 50, Fall of coal

Newman, Harry, 11 Apr 1911, aged 30, Pit Sinker, These men were in the shaft, three of them on a scaffold, and the other in the kettle, when, owing to an accident at the winch, the rope came off the drum and allowed the scaffold to fall to the bottom of the shaft, and in falling it caught the man in the kettle and knocked him out of it [More information ...]

O'Neary, Barney, 11 Apr 1911, aged 26, Pit Sinker, These men were in the shaft, three of them on a scaffold, and the other in the kettle, when, owing to an accident at the winch, the rope came off the drum and allowed the scaffold to fall to the bottom of the shaft, and in falling it caught the man in the kettle and knocked him out of it [More information ...]

Paterson, John, 21 Jun 1924, 10.10 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 22, Drawer, He was standing at a junction waiting for a pony to bring him an empty tub, when a fall of side knocked out the legs of two carrying bars and caused the whole of the junction timbering to collapse. About 6 tons of fakes came down with the timber and he was killed instantly

Scotland, Andrew, 11 May 1912, aged 45, Pithead Worker, 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

Sinclair, William, 07 Aug 1916, aged 52, Fall of roof

Todd, James, 29 Dec 1916, aged 50, Crushed by runaway hutches

Whyte, John, 25 Sep 1918, aged 56, Runaway hutch

Wright, Alexander, 20 Jan 1919, Gas explosion

Young, William, 02 Feb 1933, aged 64, Killed by a fall of coal