Elphingstone Colliery

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Crawford, Andrew, 07 Sep 1910, aged 62, Fireman, He attempted to get into a cage at the surface level without a banksman being present, when the engineman, who did not know he was going to, started the cage, and it caught and knocked him into the shaft and he fell to the bottom, a distance of 300 feet

Fairgrieve, Andrew, 31 Jan 1922, (accident: 04 Aug 1921, 4 p.m., 2nd hour of shift), aged 30, Miner, He was taking down coal at the working face when about 2cwts. of coal and stone fell from the face and crushed him against the building of the waste.  He died as a result of the injuries on 31st January 1922

Henderson, John, 10 Aug 1898, aged 38, Bottomer, Deceased descended the shaft to go to the pit bottom, and through a misunderstanding the engineman stopped the cage opposite a pump, and deceased, who had no light stepped off the cage. He fell a distance of 14 fathoms

Logan, Alexander, 04 Oct 1924, 8.0 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 16, Pithead Boy, He was taking a loaded hutch off the cage at the pithead when the cage began to descend and he was caught between the pithead scaffold and the door of the pithead casing. He received such injuries that he died 11 hours later. The visual signal indicator was not working satisfactorily and no signal was recorded from the pithead, but the engineman thought he had heard it. Deceased was the only person present at the pithead and he stated he had not given a signal, so the accident appears to have been caused by a mistake on the part of the engineman

McDonald, Alexander, 04 Oct 1922, 6.30 p.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 50, Miner, In the course of clearing away a fall of roof which took place at a cross roads near a pump house, he exposed himself under a weak roof in order to break a large stone. A further fall of half-a-ton of black fakes took place and crushed him, causing internal injuries and fractures of the leg and arm. He died four hours later.

McMillan, A., 25 Jan 1896, aged 13, Coal cleaner, Deceased was amusing himself by swinging on a lamp frame some distance above him, and when he let go he fell through an opening to engine-house below, a distance of 24 feet. The opening was not fenced, and was made to allow the engine-man to see the cages

Nelson, Andrew, 16 Oct 1893, 11.30 a.m., aged 43, Miner, Fall of coal

Redding, Alexander, 22 Sep 1891, 7 a.m., aged 24, Collier, Fall of coal and blaes

Rutherford, James, 14 Sep 1906, aged 17, Drawer, Deceased was filling coal into a tub, when a stone in centre of seam suddenly burst off the face and killed him

Smith, William, 22 Oct 1883, Fireman, Fall of roof. On main road, while examining it

Stevenson, James, 07 Nov 1924, 8.15 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 35, Miner, He had finished work early and was walking out along an endless rope haulage road, on which he was forbidden to walk when the haulage was in motion. He had passed an enamelled notice to that effect. He was found in the full tub road badly crushed about the chest and top of the head behind a rake of full tubs. Circumstances pointed to riding, but his fellow workman said that he had run forward to retrieve a pick accidentally left on a full tub. He should not have been on the haulage road at all