1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

232 REPORT OP THE BUREAU OF MINES. Off. Doc.
Non-Fatal Accidents.
Jn referring' to the nonfatal accidents, there were 17 burned by
gas; 15 of these were due to carelessness on the part of the men
themselves, and the other two were due to negligence on part of
th tire boss*.
There were 21 injured by mine cars, which were all due to carelessness
on the part of the men themselves.
1 merely call attention to the above accidents to show that the
majority of them could have been prevented, if proper care and judgment
had been used bv the victims themselves.
Improvements.
During the past year the usual improvements, such as sinking
shafts and slopes, driving tunnels, erecting airways, enlargement
and improvements of breakers and machinery, have gone on.
The general conditions, of the collieries are good.
One new colliery has been opened by the Greenough Red Ash Coal
Company. A shaft was sunk 220 feet to the Buck Mountain, or No.
4 vein, and a tunned driven from the No. 4 vein to Skidmore, or No.
C> vein; also, a breaker was erected with a capacity of 400 tons per
day.
The Buck Ridge collierj.
operated by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company, and the Neilson colliery, operated by J.
Langdon & Co., were abandoned.
The annual examination for mine foreman and assistant mine
foreman certificates was held at Pottsville in June, 1900.
The following constituted the board of examiners: Edward Brennan,
Mine Inspector, Shamokin; Andrew Robertson, coal operator,
Pottsville; James Corbe, miner, Ashland, and Jacob Fleming, miner,
Excelsior.
The following were recommended for mine foreman's certificates:
August Corbe, Ashland: John T. Ashton, Frank McHugh, Wm.
Startzel, Mt. Carmel; Wm. C. Bateman, Natalie; Dennis T. McAuliff,
Lykens; James Gordon, Locust Gap; Chas. A. Herr, Benj. Morgan,
Anth. Reidinger, Shamokin; Patrick Laughlin, Mt. Carmel.
For assistant mine foreman's certificates: George W. Stein, David
Jenkins, William E. Jones, David Stein, Nicholas Brokenshire, Mt.
Carmel; Peter Bodman, Henry Perong, Ashland; Peter Nalor, Treverton;
Thomas Joyce, Locust Gap.