Giffnock Colliery

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Blair, John, 03 Mar 1908, aged 35, Coal cutter assistant, Fall of roof on road while taking off a projection from the side. The vibration of the percussive coal-cutting machine had evidently loosened the roof, which was not secured by crowns as it ought to have been

Brown, Samuel, 05 Dec 1910, aged 59, Brusher, He was charging a hole with gelignite, and was pushing in the last of 27 cartridges and a detonator into the shot hole with a copper stemmer, when it exploded and killed him [More information ...]

Cairns, William, 25 Nov 1921, Bursting of a boiler on the surface (Colliery Guardian)

Keir, David, 06 Mar 1906, aged 35, Pump attendant, He fell to the pit bottom in some unexplained manner from a stage in the shaft where a steam pump was placed

McEwan, Duncan, 06 Oct 1922, 12.30 p.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 53, Miner, He was holing on a longwall face when a fall of roof occurred, killing him almost immediately.  The fall was 8ft long, parallel to the face, 2ft 7in wide and 6in thick, and came away from a smooth parting.  One prop was knocked out by the fall.  The timbering rule was contravened.  The place had been examined by the fireman about 1 ј hours previously and then appeared to be safe.  Systematic strapping would probably have prevented the accident

Smith, Alexander, 07 Aug 1913, aged 32, Assistant Machineman, He was engaged replacing the blunt picks on the disc of a coal cutter with sharp ones, and when the disc began to revolve, so that the part under the holing, where the blunt picks were, should be brought outside, the picks apparently struck the coal and the machine rebounded, causing the end next where deceased was to strike him and throw him on to the disc, which drew him to the coal and inflicted terrible injuries, from which he died three hours later

Waicikansky, Peter, 21 Mar 1913, aged 29, Miner, Deceased was opening out a place which had not been worked for some time, and while under some broken roof at a narrow place between a pack and the coal face he was caught by a fall and suffocated