Prestonlinks Colliery

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Davidson, George, 05 Jan 1906, aged 23, Fireman, Explosion

Docherty, John, 31 Mar 1905, aged 25, Bricklayers labourer, Deceased attended on the bricklayers, who were engaged in the erection of a washery. His duties were to carry the bricks from a scaffold 25 ft. from the ground to the bricklayers. The bricks were raised in a box to this scaffold by means of a steam crane, and in landing a load the craneman dropped the box so recklessly that the supports of the scaffold gave way and scaffold fell carrying him with it

Fairburn, George Thomson, 27 Apr 1934, Oncost worker, struck by a fall of stone from the roof [More information ...]

Forbes, George, 20 Dec 1873, aged 50, Roadsman, Fall of roof

Hoggan, James, 14 Mar 1907, aged 59, Miner, Deceased and his step-son were working as usual at the face, when the roof suddenly gave signs of falling, and both ran in opposite directions, but were overtaken and buried beneath a huge fall. The roof had been well supported by props, but the fall threw all the props out

McGeehan, John, 25 Jan 1914, aged 43, Brusher, He, with other two men, was back brushing a level road. When the fireman was making his inspection, he noticed that a bar across the entrance to a heading on this level was cracked, and one of the supporting props not vertical ; he told McGeehan to place another prop under the bar. Deceased did this, and was in the act of removing the other prop to reset it when the bar swung out of position, and he was buried beneath a fall and instantly killed

Meek, James, 07 Oct 1884, Collier, Fall of side. While taking down head coal

Quirk, Edward, 22 Oct 1906, aged 29, Hammerman, Deceased was subject to epileptic fits and took one at his work and died [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]