Shettleston Colliery

McConville, Edward, 15 Dec 1914, aged 18, Miner, Deceased was pushing an empty tub against a slight gradient when a loaded tub, which had run away from a branch road above crashed into his tub, and he was fatally crushed between his own tub and the side wall. The tub belonged to another drawer, who apparently had failed to put in a snibble to control it, and he let it go and it ran free until it met deceased's tub. The runaway had gone a distance of 30 yards

Paxton, George, 03 May 1922, 1.30 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 47, Miner, He was working at the face of a 3 ft. seam which was overlain by a bed of soft damp lipey blaes, 3 to 5 ft. thick. Above the blaes was a thick bed of strong sandstone. He had been winning out the wall and propping up the blaes, when it suddenly collapsed and displaced the supports. He was buried in the debris and killed outright. No one witnessed the accident. The fireman inspected the place about two and a half hours prior to the occurrence and found everything in order. The blaes seemed to have slipped from a well-defined lype which would be invisible before the fall occurred.

Pritchard, Robert, 03 Jul 1914, 8 a.m., aged 35, Fireman, Deceased was making an inspection in a section, which had been idle for several days, owing to a breakdown of the haulage plant, and, while doing so, the light in his safety lamp was extinguished by firedamp. He then opened the lamp to relight it when an explosion occurred, and he was burned. His statement is that he struck a match, but the probability is that he was carrying an open light, as well as his safety lamp

Purvis, Thomas, 07 Jan 1914, aged 23, Drawer, Deceased had moved a loaded tub when passing to go down a slope road. He had expected it to rest but it moved slowly and overtook him when he had gone 17 yards ; in trying to escape, his head came into violent contact with the side of the moving tub and his neck was broken. The tub was not moving fast as it had a sprag in one of the wheels, and a man beside him easily stopped it with his hands

Wright, Alexander, 11 Feb 1913, (accident: 04 Feb 1913), aged 19, Pithead Worker, He was injured by being knocked into the upcast shaft, by the cover, lifted by the cage. He was prevented from falling into the shaft by his feet, which were caught between the cover and the pithead plates. Apparently the engineman "went away" without having received the usual signal. He died on the 11th February from his injuries