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Details of Event: 2 September 1930: Three Men Injured - Midlothian Pit Accident – Haulage Rope Breaks - An alarming accident, involving 64 men, occurred in the Klondyke Pit, Newcraighall, of the Niddrie and Benhar Coal Company (Ltd) yesterday afternoon, as the early shift was being withdrawn from work. Only three of the men were so severely injured that they had to be detained in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to which they were conveyed. Three others removed to the Infirmary were not detained. Those seriously injured were:- George Young, Hercus Loan, Musselburgh (broken leg); James Hamilton, Main Avenue, New Craighall (fractured jaw bone and internal injuries.); Robert Brown, 104 High Street, Musselburgh (shock and injury to left knee.) The 64 men were being convoyed in a series of man-haulage bogies up the Sea Dook incline when the haulage rope broke, and the rake of bogies ran back over 60 feet till stopped by the chocks. Three of the bogies were piled up when they were derailed. As rapidly as possible the injured men were brought to the pit bottom and taken up to the surface. Two trips were made to the infirmary with the injured by the colliery ambulance waggon, and one trip by a St Andrews Ambulance Association waggon. As is usual in such circumstances, exaggerated reports of the affair reached Musselburgh, where much alarm was felt, as most of the men resided in the town. [Scotsman 3 September 1930]