Springside Colliery

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Ashwood, Joseph, 23 Sep 1896, aged 40, Miner, Fall of roof and coal

Banks, Charles, 22 Sep 1860, aged 12, Boy, Crushed by the cage in the shaft

Cafferty, Daniel, 31 Dec 1896, aged 67, Platelayer, While jumping up on a service bogie, he fell off, and the wheel passed over his leg

Dyet, William, 15 Nov 1877, aged 45, Sinker, By a stone falling down the shaft

Ferguson, Hugh, 18 Sep 1886, aged 19, Collier, Fall of stone at face (roof)

Gaw, Robert, 01 Oct 1908, aged 36, Overman, The fireman was redding a fall of roof on a road. The overman came to see him, when a further fall took place and caught him

Haggerty, Andrew, 11 Sep 1891, aged 44, brusher, Fall of roof on road

Hay, John, 16 Feb 1885, aged 35, Collier, Fall of roof

Hay, Robert, 10 Apr 1878, aged 26, Collier, Fall of coal

Hutchinson, John, 06 May 1869, aged 40, Roadsman, Was caught by the signal wire, and drawn off the cage, when about to repair it (the wire) [More information ...]

Johnston, Hugh, 22 Jan 1891, aged 36, Bottomer, Pushed a hutch into the open shaft from a mid working and fell after it

Mackie, Thomas, 03 Dec 1880, aged 21, Collier, Fall of coal

McDonald, Alexander, 21 Mar 1871, aged 36, Collier, Crushed on one of the colliery lyes between two loaded waggons

Murray, Robert, 05 Jan 1877, aged 47, Brusher, Fall of roof

Scobbie, James, 15 Jun 1866, aged 40, Collier, Fall of roof at face

Sharpe, William, 27 Dec 1911, aged 43, Miner, He was wedging down coal, and when the coal fell, the roof fell with it, and he was killed instantly. The roof in falling threw out the props supporting it

Spence, Hugh, 10 Mar 1882, aged 25, Collier, Fall of roof whilst engaged putting in a building

Wilson, George, 19 May 1879, aged 42, Brusher, Fall of roof whilst engaged working at it