Muiravonside Colliery

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Baxter, Malcolm, 12 Oct 1900, aged 35, Miner, Deceased had just commenced to hole when the roof suddenly fell and crushed him beneath it. The "vees" of a small hitch had been exposed prior to the fall, and stone came away from it and a face break

Frater, Thomas, 18 Oct 1882, aged 14, Collier, Run over by a hutch on dook. The hook at end of rope was attached to the drawbar of hutch and it slipped off

Henderson, William, 17 Mar 1924, (accident: 13 Mar 1924, 4.0 a.m., 6th hour of shift), aged 56, Oncost Worker, His duty was to fire a series of shots in a machine cut face of a thin seam. He prepared three charges of 3½ ounces of gunpowder at a roadhead and placed them on the top of the stemming in a wooden box, in order to convey them along the face. A spark from his naked light ignited one of the charges and caused an explosion of all the charges and of the powder in the canister near by. He was badly burned and died from his injuries 4 days later. If he had kept his naked light at least 4 ft. away from the explosive, as required by the Fourth Schedule of the Explosives in Coal Mines Order of 14th November, 1919, the accident would not have occurred

Lamond, Francis, 28 May 1897, aged 35, Labourer, Deceased and another were on the top of a pithead frame fixing a pulley block with which to raise the stays, when it fell

Stitt, William, 26 Jun 1914, aged 21, Fireman, Two brushers fired a shot in the brushing, and when they returned to clear away the results of it they found the fireman lying dead under the displaced stone. They had not taken proper precautions to warn anyone travelling up the face from the road below, and, in consequence, Stitt had crawled up the face, and been directly under the shot when it exploded. Contravention of Section 2 (e) of Explosives in Coal Mines Order