Technical Paper, Issue 73U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Mines and mineral resources |
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1,000 men employed accidents by machine Alabama Arizona Arkansas Boiler explosions calendar year 1912 Carl Meissner cars or locomotives Cement rock cent Clarence Hall Colorado compiled by A. H. Connecticut derricks Drilling accidents Electricity shock Falling from hoists Falling into quarry Falls of persons Falls or slides figs Flying pieces Grand total Granite hand tools Haulage accidents haulage machinery Horse or mule Idaho injured per 1,000 Kansas Limestone locomotives or drills Machinery pumps Marble Maryland Minnesota Missouri Montana Nevada North Carolina Number killed number of days Oklahoma Pennsylvania pieces of rock ployed Quarry cars quarry from surface Railway cars Reported by W. W. Rhode Island rock from sledging Rock while loading Sandstone and bluestone shock or burns slides of rock slight injuries South Dakota Stepping on nail TECHNICAL PAPER Timber or hand Total killed total number Total slightly injured Trap rock Utah Vermont W. W. Jones West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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Page 4 - Documents is not an official of the Bureau of Mines. His is an entirely separate office and he should be addressed: SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC The general law under which publications are distributed prohibits the giving of more than one copy of a publication to one person. The price of this publication is 10 cents.
Page 40 - The selection of explosives used in engineering and mining operations, by Clarence Hall and SP Howell. 1913. 50 pp., 3 pis., 7 figs. BULLETIN 52.
Page 40 - TECHNICAL PAPER 6. The rate of burning of fuse as influenced by temperature and pressure, by WO Snelling and WC Cope. 1912. 28 pp. TECHNICAL PAPER 7. Investigations of fuse and miners' squibs, by Clarence Hall and SP Howell. 1912. 19 pp. TECHNICAL PAPER 11. The use of mice and birds for detecting carbon monoxide after mine fires and explosions, by GA Burrell. 1912. 15 pp. TECHNICAL PAPER 13.
Page 38 - Production, number of men employed, and number of men killed in and about the coal mines in the United States in the calendar years 1896 to 1911, inclusive." o The figures for production and number of men employed are from "Mineral Resources of the United States,
Page 2 - TECHNICAL PAPER 61. Metal-mine accidents in the United States during the calendar year 1912, compiled by AH Fay. 1913. 76 pp., 1 tig.
Page 7 - SO, 1915. [Phoenix, 1916?] 72 pp. "According to the reports received by the inspector of mines, and presented in this paper, the number of men killed in and about the mines in the State of Arizona during the year 1915 was 49, as compared with 62 in 1914. The number of men employed in and about the mines, during 1915 was 13,598 as compared with 9,422 in 1914. The fatality rate for 1915 was 3.6 per 1,000 men employed. It will be noticed that the fatal accidents have...
Page 10 - State may require reports of all fatalities and injuries incapacitating the employee for one week; others may specify the reporting of accidents causing disabilities ranging from 1 to 14 days. Thus one State may report, perhaps, only 25 per cent as many injuries as some other States in which the mining industry is of no greater magnitude. At first glance it would appear that mining is much safer in the former State than in any of the latter, but this, however, is a wrong conclusion. The major difference...
Page 10 - In making comparisons of serious and slight injuries in the various States, it is necessary to take into account some of the features of the law governing the report of such injuries. One State may report fatal and serious injuries only, but without defining a "serious injury," and require no reports for slight injuries. One State may require reports of all fatalities and injuries incapacitating the employee for one week; others may specify the reporting of accidents causing disabilities ranging...
Page 31 - Falls or slides of rock or overburden. . Rock while loading at working face. . . 27 11 3 42 14.76 6.01 1.64...
Page 10 - ... eyes, and severe cuts and bruises. A slight injury is considered as one involving loss of time of "not less than 1 day nor more than 20 days." Under this group of injuries are classified cuts, sprains, mashed fingers, bruises, slight burns, effect of powder smoke, etc. It is observed, however, that any slight injury may become infected, and thus result in a serious accident, as previously defined. In an interesting discussion of the technical difficulties regarding tho required scientific methods...