Blantyreferme Colliery

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Bellinghan, George, 12 May 1910, aged 50, Roadsman, Runaway hutch displaced a prop and brought down a girder on electric cable. On attempting to lift the girder he was electrocuted [More information ...]

Bowles, John, 30 Aug 1912, aged 45, Miner, The deceased was holing when a piece of roof stone, measuring 6 feet long by 3 feet broad by 6 inches thick, fell from between two hidden lypes on to him and killed him

Currie, David, 17 Dec 1904, aged 25, Blacksmith, When attempting to enter the cage at the pithead after it started he got caught and fell to the low scaffold [More information ...]

Devine, Michael, 30 Nov 1910, (accident: 15 Nov 1910), aged 55, Miner, When working at the face, a large "pot bottom" fell out of the roof on to his back, without any warning. Died on the 30th

Docherty, Joseph, 08 Apr 1908, aged 35, Brusher, Fall of roof at working face while putting in a building. It was stated that three props were knocked out by the fall

Eccles, Constantine, 25 Jan 1904, aged 35, Miner, Fall of roof from brushing face. The brushers were taking down loose stones when he went below them

Gallacher, William, 01 Sep 1904, aged 25, Miner, The seam is worked with safety lamps, but as two tobacco pipes, a box of matches, and a burnt match were afterwards found at the point where the explosion happened, it is evident that the gas was ignited while the deceased and his neighbour were smoking. His neighbour was injured [More information ...]

Gilmour, John, 31 Dec 1912, (accident: 30 Dec 1912), aged 60, Roadsman, He was sitting by the roadside, near the main haulage dip, when a loaded hutch coming up the dip was derailed by a bencher running another hutch into it at the bench where the deceased was sitting. The derailed hutch ran into, and knocked out a tree, allowing the roof to fall on to him where he was sitting. He died the next day from injuries received

Henderson, John, 02 Aug 1900, aged 32, Overman, While travelling up a "dook" behind a race of hutches a coupling broke and the hutches ran back on him

O'Neill, Thomas, 12 Jun 1922, 12.30 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 38, Miner, He was employed at the face of a machine run where the cut coal is stripped on "end." On removing a sprag only half the depth of the cut coal, in a length of 5 ft., fell. While he was engaged shovelling the fallen coal the remaining portion of the overhanging coal rolled over without warning, and he pinned underneath a slab, weighing about three cwts. He sustained internal injuries which caused death eight days later. The accident would have been avoided if the remaining portion of the unspragged coal had been taken down prior to commencing shovelling

Presher, John, 24 Nov 1896, aged 22, Miner, Fall of roof at working face

Renfrew, William, 02 May 1900, aged 29, Miner, Fall of coal and mid-stone, which burst away from the unholed face

Rodgers, Joseph, 21 Sep 1905, aged 22, Miner, While illegally drawing in front of a hutch he lost control of it and was run over

Smith, Charles, 25 Mar 1907, aged 30, Drawer, While illegally drawing in front of his hutch going down an incline the snibble broke, and he was knocked down by the hutch and crushed against a prop

Thomson, William, 13 Sep 1898, aged 30, Miner, Fall of roof at working face