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Show DEATH TOLL IS TO BE REDUCED Washington, July 25 Mine operators opera-tors mining engineers and mine surgeons sur-geons representing practically ?ver Important mining company in the United States will gather at Pittsburg Pitts-burg Pa on September 22 to discuss methods for reducing the death toll in mines and quarries. These men are members of the American Mine Safe-tl Safe-tl association which held its first meeting one year ago In Pittsburg Here Is the problem they hae on hand In the year 1911, 3603 men were killed in the mines and quarries quar-ries of the United States Slxtv-three Slxtv-three thousand three hundred and one were Injured during the same time. The death rate for all mining that year reached 3. 58 men in every 1000 employed. The men who will meet arc the leaders In what is known as the "Safety First'' movement which began be-gan in the United States about f h e years ago through the Influence of the Federal Bureau of Mines In that time several hundred mines have bee.i equipped with rescue crewp to have life following dlsasiers. and first -aid crews to gie succor to the men who are Injured. The development of this humanitarian humani-tarian work has led to a confusion of methods and the object of the Mine Safety association 13 to discuss the different methods and recommend; the use of only the best In discuss- I ing me ODject ol the soeiaion .ir H. M. Wilson of the bureau of mines said today, "In the hope of reducing the number of these accidents and shortening the period of disability or the Injured, it was felt that there Hhould be greater uniformity In the methods of conducting rescue opera- tlons In mines after explosions, fires, or other disasters, and to give first lid to the Injured " Worklngmen's compensation acts' have In recent years been passed In fifteen 6tates. of which ten were enacted en-acted in the year 1911 alone The rapid spread of legislation compvlllng employers to care for Injured workmen work-men clearly 6hows the Importance to the employer of reduclug the liabilities liabili-ties by eery means at his dltposal These are of two kinds namely, safety safe-ty or preventive measures and protective pro-tective or rescue and first aid methods. meth-ods. "Mine operators now realize that It Is more expensive to restore wrecked mines, more co6tlv to light damage suits through the courts and less profitable prof-itable to pay regulated liability charges or even workmen's compen-satlon, compen-satlon, than It is to bear the cost involved In reducing tho?e charges by-means by-means of diminishing the number of accidents and the duration of the re suiting disability by the adoption of Improved safety, rescue and first aid mt hods "Since fifty-eight per cent of all Industrial In-dustrial accidents arc sliosvn by statistics sta-tistics to be due to negligence, carelessness care-lessness or lack of knowledge of employers, em-ployers, or employe!, the vital necessity neces-sity of learning ererythlng possible about the cnuses and means of preventing pre-venting these accident munt be evident evi-dent to every man concerned in mining min-ing To the operators It spells busi- ; ness success or failure to the miner, life or the physical .lbilitv to work ; j and support a fnmih The meeting at Pittsburg, which will Include September 22. 23. and 24. will open with a mine-rescue and first aid contest In Arsenal park, Pitts- 1 burg. The next dav the members will! lslt the experimental mine of 'he ' bureau of mines at Biuceton. Pa where a coal-dust explosion will be made to order to show the members that coal dust Is even more dangerous: I to the miner than gas. On Septem- I ber 21 there will be various meetings to discuss methods and In the after- , 'noon a isit 10 the experiment station j I of the bureau of mines. |
