Cameron Colliery

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Dryburgh, Thomas, 21 Nov 1891, 6.30 a.m., aged 21, Collier, Fall of coal

Grey, John, 02 Jun 1900, aged 17, Drawer, While passing along the coal face, a mass of coal, which was holed and ranced, broke over the rances and killed him

Morgan, George, 21 Sep 1906, aged 26, Miner, Deceased got the forefinger of his right hand scratched in some way and blood-poisoning set in, from which he died. It was stated he received the scratch while picking the coal off the face, but it was not possible from the position of the scratch [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Moyes, Andrew, 28 Nov 1894, 8.45 a.m., aged 52, Miner, Fall of coal

Nicholson, Andrew, 29 Mar 1894, Noon, aged 14, Hanger on, Crushed by tub

Simpson, Henry, 01 Nov 1922, 2.35 p.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 21, Pithead worker, A tub of dirt was being transferred from one side of the pit bank to the other via the top deck of the double-decked cage. The tub up-ended on the cage and deceased stepped on the cage in order to right it when the engineman lowered without being signalled. Deceased was found on the cover of the cage 9 ft. from the surface. He sustained a fractured skull, and died 20 minutes later.

Walker, James, 10 Sep 1924, (accident: 06 Sep 1924, 9.30 a.m., 4th hour of shift), aged 53, Brusher, Deceased was in front of a tub of redd weighing over a ton, which he and his mate were bringing down a gradient varying from 1 in 8 to 1 in 14. He had one snibble in the back wheel and his mate was behind the tub. Deceased slipped and fell, and the bottom of the tub caught him over the loins ; he sustained a dislocated spine, from which he died on 10th September. He should have been behind the tub and should have used two snibbles