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Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1925, Issues 286-290

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Eugene Delos Gardner, George Randolph Hopkins, H. Britton, William Waugh Adams, Spencer Pritchard Howell, George W. Jones

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1927 - Blasting - 89 pages

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Introduction	1

Quarries classified________	7

Fatalities and injuries by causes and kinds of quarries	24

Fatalities by causes and States during the year ended	30

Accidents by principal causes	34

Number injured per thousand 300day workers	36

Dimensionstone quarries and nondimensionstone quarries classified	43

Injury rates	50

Quarry and mine accidents compared 11	86

Inquiry form	92

Publications on accident statistics	98

Number killed and injured by kinds of quarries during

5	2

Men employed number killed and injured	15

Men employed number killed	21

Fueloil consumption and distribution 68	68

Accident rates based on hours of exposure	58

Accident data based on hours of exposure by employees inside	59

Fatalities and injuries classified by character of disability for	68

Time lost through quarry accidents	70

and 1926 74	74

and 1926 83	83

III	143

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Title	Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1925, Issues 286-290 Issues 286-290 of Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1922 and 1923, H. Britton Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Mines), United States. Bureau of Mines Issues 286-290 of Gases from Blasting in Tunnels and Metal-mine Drifts, Spencer Pritchard Howell Issues 286-290 of Petroleum Refinery Statistics, 1926, George Randolph Hopkins Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1925, United States. Bureau of Mines Volume 287 of United States. Bureau of Mines. Bulletin
Authors	Eugene Delos Gardner, George Randolph Hopkins, H. Britton, William Waugh Adams, Spencer Pritchard Howell, George W. Jones
Contributor	United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher	U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1927
Original from	The Ohio State University
Digitized	8 Nov 2019
Length	89 pages

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