Show one fifth of imbior major dor 1924 mining mi accidents Accia elI ts occur in in carbon lax h on county COL aty qty 0 ONE NE FIFTH 0 of the tho major nia aorl coal 12 a c accidents in the entire unit ed states damica 1921 19 1 occurred in carbon county comity of the lives lost in tc ten tell major disaster accidents acci dente killing five or more men melt cac last year in ill the united states were lost in fhe explosions at castle gate and faint more lives were lost on march 44 1924 in ili the castic gate disaster than an in any since april 28 1914 when me men n vere killed in ill a laine explosion at eccles IV virginia chii in fornia tion is 14 taken from a bulletin on coal mine aline Fati litie in the united states compiled Coln Piled by william W adams and iassc issi t oy by ellz tlc united silted TU states bureau of mines eleven similar limit die duster tars in 1923 re in bulted hea in a iw lose of live lives the to fit bality rate from this clam 1 of accident accidents as x indicate indicated by the numbe cumbe r af of a f death deaths per million ton tong of coal produced iced D e at ly during the preceding year it wee was 0 in 19 1923 and 0 80 8 iti in the bulletin goes on to how show that in 1921 utah ha had d more inure coal mine fatal aloe than any other state in the union and west vir so gating the on I 1 ise ses for the ID P A a utah mines last year it W 1 ie yu u i 11 lit were abic to capin of in nd coal dust eleven to fau alle of coal rock etc five awe by mine care cars aud and tire three by fall of fac for or pillar coal by suffocation fro and one 1 I y cage kip skip or bucket in a haft 4 for the twenty three fatai ti tiac in utah mince 1923 are folven ven n t follow fall of roof coal rock tie etc 10 20 falla of face or pillar com coal 1 21 mine car care aul 4 of ga gas or coal duet dust 2 ex li 1 cne skip or bucket in 0 haft mine 1 and other 2 the total of death deaths for the past te tea year how that 42 2 per cent are due to fall A A roof 17 20 per cent ta tok mane ear cars awl ad 10 23 per cent to ex pito ll lons of 0 coal dist or of gas ea in major accidents d S 08 per cent to fall falls of face or pillar coal 1 am I 1 tb be rerA loid er is dl ill vidot unious everal lexer lesser hazards mine nine in the tile united taace during the cn ca lendir ear ar 1021 1921 result d aln bia death cf al 81 2381 mien a reu a roast e at of 77 from the fatality record 0 of 2481 for the be year 1023 thi this re ducolon in t to 10 number of how over dh dil not remit revolt la ili a lower fatality rate per million tona tons of coal mil produced the pro production luction of oal coal during din jug 1024 1924 was unusually mall mull and the number of deaths lue from mine explosions vo large A aau 1 of the report fur fi lulled by aaste nine to the U V 8 bureau burean of mines for the entire ear shola that the 21 1381 P deaths in 1021 n predated B fatality fatu lity rate of 4 15 per million loae dug of eoal coal pro produced an As cOmI compared with A rate fit rd S 3 74 per nil lion on tons ton lu in 1923 1123 balled on 2458 deaths abe P production buttion lut tiOn of coal iu in 1924 accord ing ins to prell leport to tho tile unit ed state states geological urve wag wa ap proximately million ton tons as against million tone tons in 1023 for ibus coal al mince throughout the country the fatality af cahty rate increased from 3 46 per million tone tons in 1923 to J t 90 in 1024 practically all alchi increase wae was due to gas and anti dust explosion the tile rate for w which hial roge rose from 0 to I 1 per mil rall ion ton tons mined during the past four year llou 1109 hour a talty rates fromi falle falls from loof roof blau till re coal oal have been higher 1 I gher ahalt han the se rate n te the death rates from haulage accident accidents since 1910 hao halo been above the ayer average aw 1 th tit a figures in diauto rt b t till this eu of 0 al Mel addente dente denta 1 in n to inan neo fhe rate rates for raa ras and mol duet dust have been arregu la 13 s during U V e years 1914 to 10 11 they were low bet bat were normal rates during the past three years Acel lents froni from ex have resulted in death rate rates abo above te normal 1 during 7 of the 14 year years with a 7 g improvement during und 1024 1924 Y mut must be charged charge tl with de death ath rates above normal during 6 of luji lears and credited with rates t belt a during the other eight year years the latest year 1924 shows a au u increased death rate 4 up IT to 1922 the production of coa coal I 1 in utah by machine method me thoIs steadily tea dily increased more than 70 76 per cent of the tho production being done in this manner the following year however saw s falling oft off of about eight per cent in riach nachine lue production here and a corte ending au ill lit coal mined by hand ard off during the five death deaths per hundred jun dred million tone too for year I 1 jeriod c 1919 1019 1023 1021 hand blind mind mined coal I 1 dropped Or to a low mark of 1 5 pe caput in wt 1922 and vae WAG tit lit it its peak la lit 10 1930 0 o when uhl it 33 8 per cent of coal blied root ea wn was produced ay 1 hand hantl machine prodoc tn wn reached it heig helg hll lith tn 11 1823 1022 when 75 per cent of the tile coal mine nine I 1 was aas dug by thi this method and was at ite its lowet lowest in 1020 1920 with tit a figure of 63 53 7 per cent the death rate tram from mining milli jig machined ma chinee was above normal in eleven eleen out of tin fourteen year years lest hire bire state ment bo be somewhat misleading mie leading atten tion id is caled to tho capil increase of wining in bituminous 11 coal oaf mines 1 in 1911 the number of mae machine 1 wes in ue use afta 44 per cent of the n m faone coal production waa vas machine and the average tonnage per machine who wb IP ir lajo the tho num her ber of mae machine bines hal lial abon to nearly 67 per cent of the country coal was nine I 1 by mathi mathiam nm aad the aver ser prod production action u waa as anas ton I 1 or r ma ina chille hence fence the rata figure figures of not the hazard hazards the operation of coal cut cutting tinZ machine a and should be supplemented by a statement As to the number of death deaths per machine oro or better the nuni bif of death deaths per mach ne days ot of operation ali the coal mines ia erskne 11 II daiy diy of opera tion in 1911 it may be assumed that thu tho 1389 mati oln in n ue ule that year machine biays of work 80 that the 9 D fatal accident accidents wised ad by les in 1911 represented A 6 fitta lity rate of 3 deaths per mil uon on day of ope operator op erato ratton the bulletin shows th tt more men have ln killed by surface accia acel deits eit per 1000 day worker workers in utah illing the me past ten year years than in any oth er state with the exception of wyo m ing utah also bad had the highet highest figure for men killed br b undy underground ground and eur sur face accident accidents per 1000 day work ere during the bo period of 1914 1923 hav ing an A nv crage of 70 as comp compared arec with a it cotal total average of 4 1 24 14 prodie alon per death in utah based baaed on under ground its te luring the he ten year waa was net ton tons while willie the production based on all accident accidents wi w i per death shaft a were gratifyingly few dicing ing 1923 1924 and in 8 year out of the byear ito 41 16 rate per million hour from class of accidents was as lee less thin the average byear base rato rate acc I 1 lents to employed emp loyes above ground in ill surface and yards have remal remained nt td above normal during the pant past eight years and have been above the bate rate in 10 out of f the 14 year years coterel eo ere I 1 in tho the sur ur vey 1 TO one otte man in utah mine mines produce ces more coal annually than one person in any other section of the united unit state S t 11 t e according to the bulletin the annual production of coal in ill utah I 1 or man min based on all emplOY emp loye 00 during the ten year ending decueber Deem eber 31 1923 10 13 we s 1078 net tona tons while the average for the nation wa WAS only 43 tone dally daily pro I 1 lotton wt t on of coal per min here base I 1 underground eaf also excl ex exal cl that of swi ther ither being with ith 4 2 ten tons 6 7 pet net via on a c eon on pared w for the n average r g g e mins eve a p i 0 i a on m 0 jtb other er abnormal trend to tiu a utera sometimes obscure the if what may be railed 1 the no normal amal fa bality rates at roal mines disastrous and the exceptional explosions nr ar I 1 dumber of deaths they cautle depend largely on the number of men tn in the mine at the t me or rather the BUM num ber of iau ia rn u in lit the of the ex an that call caused th the e death sf of met boull haie hais aued aused no lee less ai as indicating a mine imae hazard ir it ao wi ih s bad had been lost because no one happe happened hed to be in the mine at the time statistics Stati stice to li piled by the bureau bareau of mine mines how show that diang the past ter ce tura 1924 abye e lia have e been 8 eia legion of gas or nal dust in tit ili th bituminous coal mince of the united mates these explosions caused death A major elpio alon in clef lueil n oae one in which 5 or more aroi lives were ere lost aa art abalos m ft f tile that 0 s were fewer buting the month of 11 I 1 I 1 n to september cincin eive than durfin the month of 0 oe tuber tober to ki i ril inclusive thia this kiy wem seem A nat ral re result atilt of In le ened welled ac at at ti ali aal RAI smaller pro of e ul lurine during the tile late spring and dumn r leever lw lr ever wever n I 1 t only flae vlas the abet ail ii is I 1 ft or ot explosions from may to ac 8 i 1 ler ber r than in oth tr ter months t the explosions were fewer in I 1 t r I 1 i rt n to thi 0 input of boar duni duru a 1 t 25 vear feriod 40 46 et ec lesions a rate af I 1 1109 ex million tons of 1108 1 inq per hundred other sevan coal produced daring during the months of the year oc 02 cut 4 a rate of f 2321 elpi explosion c alerts per hundred ton tons 0 coal produced the death rate from explosions during the spring and summer was 33 the remainder of the year the corres pending rate wae was 81 At accord cording ing to the figure figures september is as the month of fewest explosions it n re lation to coal produced the raty for that month over the 23 25 year per 1 al wae was 0 77 6 per hundred million tons june ranks next with a rate of 0 84 follow ed ea by july with a rate of 1 2 37 august with 1 W and may with 1434 1 the low rate for september Is i followed by tha much higner rate of 1933 for fat oc ot tober thereafter the rate rates concill continue ue high until april tho the rate tor for which hi ch 1783 Is i higher thau the ot at aily an other mouth month of the year X r eh and april and n anber bong 11 to the broat tion of coal trends steadily liparit A possible and t la 1 p lariel tio of thin thio fact may mar be b e par u u a lyex ao 10 t 0 that sometimes a g com ny fee les over the making of contract to 1 govern overn wages and w working cool tio whether or on alu explanation ij Is f focient aul and LOW far seasonal ill at la in ext external ernul temperature affect on t the to it of tame ml ie air and the of coal dijt tire questions lone that careful inquiry J |