Springville Herald | 1940-08-08 | Page 10 | Who Supervises the Shot-Firer? |

Type	issue
Date	1940-08-08
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Who Supervises the Shot-Firer?
Type	article
Date	1940-08-08
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Page	10
OCR Text	Show causes. What is theT I this very seri0us state WHO SUPERVISES THE SHOT-FIRER? In the past tew years, blasting has caused most of our very serious ser-ious mine disasters, there having been nearly 2 00 persons killed in mine disasters in the past three and a half years in which the disaster was Initiated by shot-firing shot-firing and shot-firers. In three of these four explosions, permissable explosives were used; In the fourth case, pellet powder was the offender. In all four cases, very pour practices were the real
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tn1cvn/15309133