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Dec 31, 2021With a summary of coal production, etc., prepared by the Bureau of Industrial Statistics, Department of Internal Affairs. Continues: Pennsylvania. Inspectors of Mines. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous coal regions of Pennsylvania, for the year .. Continued by: Pennsylvania. Bureau of Mines.
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Get PriceThe inspectors give detailed reports of each accident, and say that in from 50 to 70 per cent. of the cases the victims lost their lives by their own carelessness. Last year in the anthracite mines there were 411 lives lost and 1,057 persons injured. This loss of life made 230 widows and 525 orphans.
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Get Pricehazards within coal mines throughout the United States (USDL, n.d.a). The role of the Bureau was to conduct research and reduce accidents in coal mining, but it did not have the authority to inspect mines (USDL, n.d.b). Although this was a progressive step in protecting work ers, the Bureau'slack of inspection rights limited its im pact
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Get PricePennsylvania Mining Resources. Mining in Pennsylvania was a well regulated industry after the Avondale mine disaster in 1869.Details of mining accidents, fatal and nonfatal, can be found in the volumes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Mine Inspector Reports.Publications began in 1870 and continues today; however, the reports are only genealogically useful until the 1920's.
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Get PriceSafety is primarily the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for inspections of all mine sites in Maryland. The Maryland Mining Program receives a grant from MSHA to provide miner safety training in both coal and non-coal mining.
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