Mossbeath Colliery

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Burt, David, 22 Dec 1926, aged 52, Roof Fall

Burt, William, 16 Mar 1931, aged 80, Struck by waggon

Costello, Daniel, 06 Jul 1906, aged 15, Filler, Deceased's duties were to fill the tubs with coal and otherwise assist at the face ; he had filled his tub, and left it at the face and sat down a short distance away to wait on the drawer coming inbye with an empty. While waiting a burst of coal took place off the face, which struck the loaded tub, causing it to move away, and the boy, thinking apparently to get out of harms way, from the falling coal, darted to the opposite side of the roadway and was struck by the tub as it passed. The road dipped 1 in 7 from the face, and it was quite evident the tub was neither spragged nor ranced properly

Davie, James, 17 May 1904, aged --, This man was looking for work, and when at the colliery he was run over by a train of waggons.

Hogg, Peter, 16 May 1922, 12.10 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 51, Assistant machineman, He was steadying the newly set haulage tree about 3 ft. in front of a bar coal cutting machine, which was about to cut through a nose of coal "bar first," until the tree should be tightened by the strain on the rope. While doing so he allowed his foot to get too close to the revolving bar, and the picks caught his boot and pulled him in, injuring him so severely that he died in a few minutes. Men should not be allowed to work in such dangerous positions

Kelly, James, 29 May 1913, aged 25, Miner, He was at the roadhead filling coal, which his brother was throwing back to him from the coal face, into a hutch, when a large portion of the roof coal fell on him without any warning, killing him instantly

Lindsay, George, 25 Mar 1903, aged 16, Miner, Deceased and some others were descending to a mid-working, 33 fathoms above pit bottom, on the lower deck of a double-decked cage, while eight men were ascending on the opposite cage, which was also double-decked. Owing to momentary forgetfulness, the engineman ran the descending cage past the mid-landing, and then considered it safer to bring the ascending cage to pit bank and let the men off before reversing. When the men left its upper deck the pithead man signalled to have the lower deck brought up to the landing ; and, simultaneously, the bottomer, recognising that the men on the cage at pit bottom were mid-working men, signalled for the cage to be raised. Unfortunately, at the same moment deceased attempted to jump off the cage at pit bottom, and was caught and crushed against the landing

Mitchell, David, 24 Nov 1914, (accident: 27 Oct 1914), aged 29, Brusher, Deceased was brushing a longwall place where the inclination was 1 in 3, and where all the brushing except 10 inches was pavement brushing. The pavement brushing had been taken forward, and he was levering down the top when a part from the roadside came over suddenly from a lype. He was caught about the back and so severely injured that he died on November 24th

O'Donnell, Thomas, 28 Jun 1923, Fall of stone

Orr, Peter, 21 Jun 1919, Killed by a fall of roof

Ritchie, Andrew, 14 Aug 1916, Shot-firing accident

Shearer, John, 07 Feb 1923, aged 15, Meningitis and leg injury

Wallace, Andrew, 25 Jul 1935, Miner, killed by a fall of roof [Date of Inquest]

Young, George, 17 Jun 1904, aged 45, Labourer, Deceased was in the engine shed, situated between two lines of rails, taking a meal, and after finishing stepped out in front of a train of waggons which knocked him down and passed over him