Roslin Colliery

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Barr, Archibald, 10 Oct 1922, 8.30 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 46, Miner, He was filling loose dirt from a shot when a fall of half a ton from the side killed him, and broke a leg of his companion. This side had been specially examined 15 minutes before by the fireman because it required to be removed to straighten the stone mine that was being driven. It was then presumed that it would require a shot to get it down. [Full name is Archibald Campbell Barr]

Foster, John, 07 Jul 1911, aged 23, Miner, When putting a full hutch on a carriage on an incline with a dip of 60 degrees, the brakesman moved the carriage before getting a signal to do so, and as a result the deceased and the hutch fell to the bottom of the incline, a distance of 170 feet

McGregor, William, 12 Feb 1924, 8.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 17, Brakesman, The back balance incline on which he was brakesman is at an angle of about 60 degrees to the horizontal and has 10 benches. He started the carriage away from the bottom to go to No. 9 bench, and, probably for the purpose of greasing the bearings of the back balance drum, he left the brake, and in passing the drum may have slipped. He was caught between the drum and the roof, and, when extricated about 20 minutes later, artificial respiration was tried for an hour, but he had died from suffocation. The back balance drum was not fenced, but he should not have left the brake while the carriage was running

McGuire, John, 06 Jul 1914, (accident: 14 Jun 1914), aged 51, Surfaceman, When working on the sidings at the surface he slipped and cut his face with his hammer. Erysipelas set in and be died on July 6th

Meek, Robert, 23 Jan 1924, 10.45 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 19, Miner's Drawer, He was drawing to a carriage incline which has a gradient of 65 degrees to the horizontal. He took an empty hutch from the carriage, hung on a full hutch and shouted "away" to the brakesman. The carriage descended to the bottom of the incline, and then either the empty hutch ran back to the incline and knocked him over, or he forgot himself and ran the empty hutch in the wrong direction and into the incline. His skull was fractured and he was dead when found. The block was afterwards found open and the signal handle was missing

Porteous, James, 27 Jul 1914, aged 29, Miner, The inclination being very steep, 85 degrees, the inclines are worked by back balances and carriages. To send his full tub down on the carriage provided to convey it to the level road, he took the empty hutch off and shouted to the brake boy to lever the carriage down 4 inches by barring the drum, although he must have known, had he thought about it, that this was impossible, with the empty tub off the carriage. The brake boy, never expecting that the empty hutch had been moved off the carriage, tried to lower the carriage, which, naturally, rose up above the bench instead, with the result that when deceased came out again with his full tub he pushed it over on to the incline. He was drawn over with the tub and fell a distance of 21 fathoms

Ramage, Henry, 11 Mar 1909, aged 33, Miner, Deceased was standing on a temporary scaffold working off coal in a seam with a gradient of 65 degrees, when one of the supports gave way and he fell across a prop 7 feet below and was killed

Webster, Thomas, Sep 1914, (accident: 19 Feb 1914), aged 51, Miner, He was injured by a piece of stone, 3 ft. by 1½ ft. by 1½ ft., falling from the roof and rolling against his legs. Both his legs were broken, and he died seven months later in hospital