Hillhouserigg Colliery

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Bower, Joseph, 13 Nov 1911, aged 25, Brusher, Fall of side in working place. He was about to stow the rock which his brushing shot had brought down, when a piece of the side, about 2 tons in weight, fell and crushed him. He seems to have taken out almost all the breakers to stow the large pieces of rock and this may have allowed the stone to become loose

Brown, Matthew, 15 Jan 1906, aged 34, Screenman, This man had been in failing health and suddenly expired at his work [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Campbell, Patrick, 06 Aug 1910, aged 28, Pit Sinker, The shaft in which this accident occurred, had recently been sunk from the Gas coal to the Mill coal seam, a distance of 48 fathoms. A pump was placed on a scaffold 12 feet above the Mill coal seam, fitted with a hose suction pipe ; the hose was leaking, and the deceased and another sinker went down the shaft and replaced it with another. They were on the cage and were going to the pump scaffold and gave the signal "one," in response to which the cage was taken up to the scaffold. A signal "one" was then given to stop, and the deceased proceeded to get out, but as he was doing so the cage was taken away and he was fatally crushed. The engineman mistook the second signal to take the cage to the surface.

Linden, Hugh, 03 Apr 1914, aged 38, Fireman, He was travelling along the coal face, and was actually under a shot at a roadhead when it exploded. The brushers had warned the men on one side of the road, but omitted to do anything to prevent any one approaching the shot from the other side. The deceased's body was only found when the stone displaced by the shot was taken away. Contravention of Section 2 (e) of the Explosives in Coal Mines Order

Rogers, Charles, 08 May 1911, aged 27, Miner, Deceased had just gone into one of his working places to strip machine cut coal left over from the day shift. He was alone at time of accident, but from the position in which he was discovered, it is thought he sat down to rest, when a large stone suddenly fell on him, causing death instantly