Carmyle Colliery

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Barrowman, William, 20 Jun 1907, aged 30, Fireman, While dislodging an accumulation of gas with a naked light the gas ignited at his lamp

Grant, James, 23 May 1885, aged 28, Collier, Fall of roof

McCourt, Peter, 02 Nov 1895, 9.45 a.m., aged 50, Miner, Fall of roof at working face

McIlvie, Daniel, 31 Jan 1876, aged 63, Bottomer, Was struck by descending cage at the pit bottom

Nelson, Robert, 11 Apr 1911, aged 33, Pit Sinker, Deceased and another man were at work in the bottom of a winding shaft, which was being deepened. They detached the winding rope from the kettle in the shaft bottom and signalled for it to be raised, in order that a second kettle might be lowered from the seam above to allow of some water being got out of the bottom of the shaft more quickly. The rope after being raised swung about, and the shackle pin caught two battens, which formed the "strike" or landing boards for the kettles of water at the seam above, and pulled them up ; they fell down the shaft on to the head of deceased, 6 fathoms below, and killed him. If the signaller on the landing had attended properly to his duty, he should have stopped the rope when it began to swing, and the "strike" should not have been made so that it could be caught by the shackle pin in the way it was

Stevenson, James, 27 Mar 1908, aged 15, Miner, In some unexplained manner he fell off the cage while ascending the shaft. It is probable that a pick which he was carrying under his arm caught a bunton and jerked him off