| Show FE OF COAL MINER BECOMING NG LESS DANGEROUS SAYS REPORT F fob fib ib 25 safety arst is beginning to show lal al results in lives saved in the coall bining ining industry according to a tat ement m ade de by secretary lane f the interior V tol lay A port of the casualties in the coal lines ines for the year yar 1915 made by he e bureau of mines shows that the actual number of men killed i the lowest io in the last eight years the death rate for each 1000 men ir the lowest in the last abeen cars the number of tona tons of coal pro ced for each miner killed is the agest in the entire history of coal ining in the united states statistics dithered gi by the bureau how bow that more than three quarters f a million men were employed in oal mining last year and that of his number 2264 were killed which a less than 1014 1914 and less ban 1913 the death rate for each men employed was 2 95 as 3 22 in the previous year and 73 the year before that this eans that as a result of the gener I 1 safet safety campaign that has been proceeding roce ing it for beveral everal ss year t there here ra s one additional min saved in very turn fout thou thousand band employed as oni with the previous year nd nil three more men saved in every our thousand emp employed loed as compared kith ith the year 1913 there were tons of coal produced for very life lost as compared comp jred with tons in the p evious a 3 ear car this ia Is the moat gratifying re ort the bureau of mmes ames has been ble to mike since it was establish id d said Secre tao lane t it in n lecates vry vi ry forcibly to me that safety firt has come t to stay in he lie co coil cod d inin mining inz indu stiv and that it s being bein practiced mow assiduously as in n mm min n ng 11 camps than ever before veil effort along tins flits line spells lives ives saed suffering lessened and poverty and maa ann prevented it ibis Is uch a report t is s this that leads us to translate as prea pres dent wilson did safety first into america first for I 1 do believe that today there is is more regard in the united states for f dr the welfare and safety of the working man then in any other country in the world it lt ia is especially gratifying that this movement is progressing so lap idly in an industry that is one of the greatest in the world the united states today mines 50 per cent of the entire coil cod co d of the world as much coal as great britain and germany combined and employs an ever increasing army of men that has bas now reached beyond the three quai quat of a million mark I 1 it is difficult 0 o say what might have been had the various agencies throughout the united states not cooperated 4 aerated with the bureau of mines in J the safety first movement all we do kaow is that if instead of de cr creasing eising the deith rate had bad continued to increase as it did UD to the y ear 1907 there would be today several thousand more dead miners in the united states I 1 while it is not possible to attribute this reduction of deaths to any one of the agencies striving to reduce mine amide incidents lits each credit for the part it has taken in in this work the saving of lives has been the result of clo closer and more careful inspection liy by tho the state mine inspectors the he butter enforcement of laws and regulations by the the in miners iners of the dangers attending his daily work and his own efforts to reduce acel acci dents the more general use of safety dimp in doubtful mines the use of permissible explosives pa parsed sed upon by the buiel of itne the watering of dusty mines to kap down coil wil debt first aid and rescue training 1 which save lives hv s thit otherwise might be loat loa by reason of injuries reLe received ived the enactment of industrial accident im ident compensation laws and last but not leas least the splendid spirit of co oper open tion on tho part of all concerned er ned |
