Show COAL MINE fatalities DECREASE accidents at coal mines during june caused the death of men according to reports received from state mine inspectors by the bureau of mines department of the interi entenor In tenor or the fatality rate for the month based upon a production of 54 tons was per million tons for the corresponding month last year the rate was based on fatalities and an output of tons the small amount of coal mined in june 1922 was due to the coal strike in progress at that time an average of deaths per million tons is shown by the record for june durino during the past ten years fatalities in june have brought the total deaths for the first half of the current year to 1221 indicating a fatality rate of per million tons as against fatalities in the same sam period last year representing a rate of the fatality rate for the present year represents a reduction of more than 9 per cent from the 1922 figures with no sin single le ac accident c ident during june causing as many as f ive five deaths the record of major disasters for the first half of 1923 shows 5 accidents with a total loss of lives as compared with 8 similar accidents with 87 lives lost during the first half of 1922 statistics prepared by the bureau of mines covering the years fatalities to date from all causes show a reduction in in the fatality rates per million tons for haulage accidents and for falls of roof and coal a slight increase for explosions of gas ga s and dust and no material change in the rate for explosives and dec electricity tri city |