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Show Best Safety Record Made By Nation's Coal Mines WASHINGTON. The nation's coal mines last year chalked up their best safety record in history despite equipment shortages, loss of skilled workers and other wartime handicaps, handi-caps, Secretary of the Interior Harold Har-old L. Ickes said recently. In a report to congress on the federal mine inspection program, he said that 1,306 mine workers lost their lives in 1944. This is a fatality rate of only 1.91 life for each 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 tons of bituminous coal and anthracite produced. The rate was 2-26 deaths Der 1.000.000 tons in 1943. |