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Details of Event: 10 May 1915: Fatal Accident at Bathgate - John Martin (54), a waggon trimmer, residing in lodgings at Bridgend, Bathgate, and employed at the Mosside Pit of Messrs Gavin Paul & Sons, met with a fatal accident yesterday morning. Martin had been engaged in the braking of empty waggons adjacent to the colliery "scree." While doing this it is supposed he tripped and fell and one of the waggons passed over him. He died within half an hour of the accident. [Scotsman 11 May 1915] Fatality Near Mosside Colliery - On Monday morning, about 8.30, John Martin, aged about 50 years, while at work as a coal trimmer at Mosside Colliery, was fatally injured. He was knocked down by an empty waggon, which passed over his body. He received compound fractures to his right thigh, while he was also severely crushed. With all speed he was conveyed to Bathgate for medical attention but died on the way. Deceased resided at Bridgend, Bathgate. [West Lothian Courier 14 May 1915] Newspaper report - Lothians pages "John Martin, coal trimmer, Old Smith's Buildings, Bridgend, Bathgate, died on 10 May 1915 while being conveyed on stretchers from Dr Kirk's Surgery in Engine Street to the Sick Rooms in Mid Street, Bathgate, from injuries sustained when he was run over by a railway waggon at Mosside Colliery, Bathgate"