Ingliston (Oil Shale)

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Allan, George, 06 Dec 1910, aged 49, Miner, When engaged in "stooping" operations, about 25 cwts. of shale fell off the face and killed him. He appeared to have attempted to get the shale down and failed, and although it was overhanging went under it and started to take some more stone from under it with a pinch bar when it fell

Anthony, David, 20 Nov 1914, aged 46, Miner, Deceased was cleaning up and timbering his working place when a mass of shale fell over from an unseen clay back and killed him almost instantly

Clarke, Patrick, 21 Dec 1893, 1.30 p.m., aged 50, Labourer, Crushed by waggons

Erskine, Hugh, 27 Dec 1899, aged 39, Miner, Deceased and two others worked in a room which was stripping a fault. When making his statutory inspection, the fireman found a quantity of gas at the face, and warned the miners not to enter the place until he had cleared it out. He entered the place alone, and proceeded to waft out the gas with a piece of canvas. Deceased went in in the dark to speak to him, and the two others shortly afterwards lifted a canvas screen and entered the place with naked lights. A violent explosion occurred, whereby the whole four were severely burned. Deceased succumbed eight days afterward

Gaffney, George, 25 Jul 1912, aged 21, Drawer, Filling shale at the face of a stoop when a piece measuring 4 feet by 1 foot 6 inches by 1 foot 3 inches fell from the face and fatally injured him

Gardner, William, 05 Feb 1898, aged 33, Miner, While taking gunpowder out of a can with which to charge a shot, a spark fell from deceased's lamp, which was on his cap into the can, igniting the contents and causing an explosion

Gifford, Robert, 04 Dec 1912, aged 37, Miner's Drawer, He had returned with the miner for whom he worked to see him examine their working place after a shot had been fired. He was standing behind the miner when a large piece of shale, which fell from the face, about 7 feet from where the shot had been fired, caught and killed him instantly

Hunter, John, 17 May 1906, aged 37, Miner, Two shot holes were bored in the shale, charged with 1½ pounds of gunpowder and white tape fuse used; one shot was in the centre and one in bottom. Both shots missed, and after waiting 40 minutes deceased returned and withdrew the stemming of the former, re-charged the hole and fired it. Later on he was unramming the latter when the charge exploded

Moffat, Robert, 29 Jul 1911, (accident: 13 Jul 1911), aged 20, Miner's Drawer, Internal strain while moving hutches. He was a light delicate man, and not physically fit for the work he was employed at. The officials and miner should not have allowed him to be so employed. He died on 29th July

Tinnie, Edward, 01 Nov 1909, aged 31, Miner, Deceased was boring a hole for a shot, when the face shale came away suddenly, upon him. The fall carried away the sprags which were up to the face