Lightshaw Colliery

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Campbell, William, 27 Dec 1901, aged 33, Miner, Fall of coal

Carle, William, 27 Sep 1875, (accident: 23 Sep 1875), aged 47, Collier, Fall of roof. Injured on the 23rd ; died on the26th

Clark, James, 06 Aug 1912, aged 24, Enginekeeper, Deceased attended to a Pumping Engine, placed alongside the Winding Engine, during his shift, both being in same room. He appears to have noticed that a binding bolt required screwing up, so without stopping the Pumping Engine he opened the fence rail and went inside to do this. No one witnessed the accident, but apparently while tightening the bolt he slipped, and was caught both by the flywheel and pump crank, and was killed. He was disobeying instructions in repairing machinery in motion

Clowes, John, 18 Nov 1910, aged 61, Pit-head Worker, The automatic gates protecting the shaft at the pit-head level were out of order and the deceased pinned them up. He had emptied a hutch and intended to put it into the cage, but he, for some unexplained reason, pushed it in at the side the cage was not at and he fell with it on to the top of the other cage, a distance of 462 feet. If the gates had been in working order the accident could not have occurred

Dempster, John, 18 Feb 1904, aged 55, Miner, Fall of head coal (roof). Props were not set as required by the regulations

Ferguson, John, 24 Aug 1903, aged 25, Miner, Fall of head coal beneath which he went after the props were withdrawn

Gilfillan, Daniel, 05 May 1904, aged 25, Miner, Fall of coal

Macdonald, James, 25 Aug 1896, aged 50, Miner, Fall of coal

Mathieson, Thomas, 18 Jul 1888, aged 25, Miner, While descending the shaft was crushed between the cage and a bunton

Murdoch, William, 29 May 1886, aged 21, Collier, Fall of coal

Paterson, William, 30 Mar 1885, aged 40, Collier, Fall of coal

Robb, Gavin, 01 Aug 1901, aged 13, Hooker on, While disconnecting a hutch of props from a tail chain on surface haulage road when in front of it he fell, and the hutch ran over him

Sloan, John, 06 Oct 1909, aged 36, Miner, Fall of coal while taking it down

Symington, David, 08 Jan 1890, aged 19, Drawer, Fall of roof in road while redding a fall

Thomas, Patrick, 26 Feb 1902, aged 35, Miner, Fall of coal from corner of stoop