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Show MILLIONS WORK IN MINES Mere Than Half of the 6,000,000 Men employed Below Earth's Surface Sur-face Dig Coal. The magnitude of the mining Industry Indus-try may be grasped when one realizes that more than 6,000,000 men are engaged en-gaged in the mines of the world. Of this number 3,800,000 are employed In the conl .mines and 2,200,000 In the metal mines. In addition, millions more are engaged In allied 'Industries dependent directly Upon the mines for coal nnd metal, according to the Engineering En-gineering nnd Mining Journal. Mining Is ono of the hazardous Industries In-dustries employing over 1,000,000 men In the United States, In which Hire? out of every 1,000 men employed are killed every year by reason of somo accident. ac-cident. "While completo data relating to non-fntnl Injuries nrejiot u tillable, reports to tho UnlFed States bureau of mines for all netul mines In thn United States show that about 200 men per thousand per yenr nro In- rjurcd sufficiently to cause n loss of time. A reduction of CO per cent In tho number of mine necldents would I mean a saving of 1,500 lives in the United States every yenr, In addition to reducing the loss of time and suffering suf-fering resulting from more than 200,-000 200,-000 non-fatal Injuries. |