Show FIRST AID CONTESTS in another column is given the result of first aid or mine aline rescue contests in the coal mining regions of the state these contests held under the auspices of the utah fuel company and adapting practice perfected by the U S bureau of mines are bound to result beneficially to the coal mining industry of the state and practice of this character should receive more attention at the hands of metal miners there is a wide difference in the attention given to those injured in coal mining accidents at the present time than was the case only a few years ago then if a man were injured his companions were practically helpless and incompetent as far as being able to give any skilled assistance was concerned and many lives were lost and many victims sustained permanent injuries which could have been avoided had the miners been drilled in the principles of first aid although wine aline rescue work has been featured for only a comparatively brief period wonders have already been performed because of the experience gained and an all injured man in almost any coal mining section of the state receives such 1 immediate mined 1 ate attention that serious complications are avoided temporarily and the victim if rushed to a hospital has received such pre treatment that his case is far from being as bad and complicated as it might have been had he not been the recipient of first aid assistance this training and this provision for the assistance assi of the injured is a splendid thing and gives confidence and a feeling of 0 security to the employees of any company which makes an effort to provide for emergencies in which the lives and limbs of their men are endangered first aid is gaming gaining rapidly in the avest wes wherever and the idea is a popular one da caliger liger or men are engaged in hazardous ous employment |