1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

xxxii ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc.
A reference to Table F will show that 2,860 lives, or 86.83 per cent,
were lost inside of the Anthracite mines in the ten years from 1881
to 1890. Of this number 1,333, or 46.93 per cent, perished from falls
of coal, slate or roof; 509 or 17.78 per cent, by having been run over
or injured in various ways by cars; 202, or 6.39 per cent, by explosions
of gas; 275 or 9.26 per cent, by explosions of powder, dynamite and
blasts; 148 or 5.17 per cent, by falling down shafts, slopes, etc., and
210 or 7.33 per cent, from miscellaneous causes. There were 434
lives lost outside the mines for the same period, which was 13.17 per
cent, of the whole number, of which 184 or 42.39 per cent, were by
cars, 116 or 26.72 per cent, by boiler explosions, and 96 or 22.12 per
cent, from miscellaneous causes.