Safety - misconduct, injury or death at work
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SERIOUS ASSAULT IN A SHALE PIT.
At the Sheriff Summary Court, Edinburgh, on Saturday, before Sheriff Hallard, Donald McKay and Alexander McKenna were charged with assaulting John Demsie, signalman in …
Source: The Falkirk Herald. - Read moreACCIDENT TO A MINER
James Donnelly, 24 years of age, a miner, residing at 10 Murchison Buildings, West Caider, received severe bruises and injuries to the back and shoulders today by the falling of a …
Source: Edinburgh Evening News. - Read moreACCIDENT AT AN ADDIEWELL PIT
A serious accident happened to a young man named George Sanderson, who is engaged as a miner in No. 2 pit, Addiewell, Sanderson was working at the face when a stone from t…
Source: Lanarkshire Upper Ward Examiner. - Read moreSUICIDE AT A PIT
Early on Saturday morning when the oversman descended No. 8 Pit, the property of Messrs Young’s Oil Company, Addiewell, he came upon the body of a man at the pit bottom. The head was …
Source: Linlithgowshire Gazette. - Read moreWEST CALDER MINING CASE.
Proof was led on Monday, 20th ult., before Sheriff-Substitute Melville, at Linlithgow, as to liability in an action by John Hamilton and his wife, residing at Mossend, West Ca…
Source: West Lothian Courier. - Read moreTHE RECENT ACCIDENT AT BREICH OIL WORKS.
In Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Thursday - before Sheriff Macleod and a jury—a public inquiry was held as to the death of Adam Thomson Stewart, retort foreman, …
Source: Linlithgowshire Gazette,. - Read moreTHE RECENT FATALITY AT NEW HERMAND OIL WORKS.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.
Before Hon. Sheriff-Substitute Turnbull and a jury at Linlithgow on Tuesday, a public inquiry was held under the Fatal Accidents Inquir…
Source: Linlithgowshire Gazette. - Read moreMIDDLETON HALL ACCIDENT.
The first enquiry was as to the death of James Beattie Provan, acetylene welder. who was fatally injured in an accident at Middleton Hall workshop. on 28th October last. John …
Source: West Lothian Courier. - Read more