Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of ...

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Reports of the Inspectors of Mines. 149
Extent of Injury, and Cause of Accident.
Leg broken and head and body fearfully shocked by falling out of
the breaker,
Face cut by a kick from a mule,
Hands and neck slightly burned by an explosion of carbureted hydrogen
gas, ....
Hips and sides severely injured by being crushed between a car
and pillar,
Arm broken and otherwise slightly injured by a fall of roof, . . . .
Foot badly cut by lump of coal falling on it from top of car, . . . .
Head cut and back severely bruised by a fall of roof,
Head severely cut by a piece of coal flying from a collision of two
cars,
Hips and loin badly injured by being squeezed between cars and
pillar,
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Leg fearfully mangled by falling under culm car at the breaker;
leg amputated,
Leg and arm broken, and otherwise severely injured by a fall of
top coal,
Leg sprained at the ankle by a fall of top coal,
Seriously crushed between a car and a prop,
Slightly injured by an explosion of a blast; returned before the
match had burned out,
Collar-bone fractured by being crushed between a car and pillar, .
Leg broken by being crushed between mine cars,
Head severely cut by a fall of roof, ,
Leg injured by the same fall of roof,
Back broken by a fall of roof; Eynon is disabled for life,
Upper jaw-bone and nose broken by same fall of roof,
Back injured by the same fall of roof,
Thigh-bone fractured by a fall of roof, which occurred immediately
after tiring a blast,
Body squeezed between a car-load of props and the roof,
Back seriously injured by a fall of roof, by which Hartley Dean
was killed,
Ankle fractured by barring down coal upon himself,
Back very severely injured by a fall of roof; result of his own carelessness,
Head and leg cut by being crushed between cars,
Head and shoulder injured by a fall of roof,
Face and hands slightly burned by an explosion of carbureted hydrogen
gas
Head cut and breast injured by a fall of roof, . .
Leg severely cut above the knee by a fall of roof,
Head and arm severely cut and hips sprained by a fall of rooi"; his
laborer, James McShurley, was killed,
Ankle dislocated by a fall of roof,
Back injured and two teeth knocked out by a fall of roof,
Slightly injured by a kick from a mule,
Two toes cut off in the cogs of the screen In the breaker,
Leg broken by jumping off a trip of loaded cars upon which he
was riding on inside slope,
Back and sides injured by a fall of roof while re-standing a prop
knocked out by a blast,
Leg injured by being crushed between bumpers of mine cars, . . .
Face, neck, and hands slightly burned by an explosion of carbureted
hydrogen gas, ,.
Slightly injured by a fall of roof,
Right side injured by premature explosion of a blast,
Breast and body Injured by premature explosion of a blast, . . . .
Body injured between mine cars,
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