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24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE A statement of the non-fatal accidents in and about the collieries of the three districts in the year 1875. Character of Injuries. Pottsville Injured from falls of coal . Falls of rocks and slate . . Falls into slopes and shafts FaUs of timl)er and props . Explosions of gases Exjilosions of powder Explosions of l^lasts Explosions of boilers Injured by wagons Suflocations Falling off cages Broken ropes and chains In machinery In rollers By drills and tools By fall of planks Cut b3" axes Falls of trestleing Flooding of mine Vicious animals Miscellaneous cases Totals -To22d September From 22d to December 31. Totals Of this number died of their injuries . 28 3 I 5 i I 1 11 - ss Shenandoah. 54 6 3 1 15 2 4 1 18 1 Shamokin. 11 2 Total. 119 22 8 6 45 11 18 2 40 3
119 persons were maimed during life ; INSPECTORS OF MINES. 25 making in all 308 cases, injuries 189 others were severely injured, not resulting in death, against 342 cases of a like character last year, or 43 less. The collieries of Schuylkill county very generally June, 1875. were idle from tlie 9th of December, 1874, to the 23d of PoTTSviLLs District Casualties and Character of the Fatalities. Twenty-eight fatal accidents occurred in and about the collieries of this district during the year ; but since the 22d of September last the district had been increased by the addition to it of New Boston basin collieries, and all collieries now west of the West Branch of the Schuylkill river and south of Broad mountain, in Schujdkill county, except Brookside colliery; it extends from Carbon county to Dauphin county line, and is 38 miles in extent. Character of these Fatalities. 5 persons lost their lives b}' falls of coal. 3 do do falls of rock and slate. .explosion do do . ... explosions of fire-damp. person lost his life by. . . of powder. do do explosion of a blast. do do being crushed by wagons. persons lost their lives by breaking of slope chain. do . do falling into slopes and shafts, &c. do do falling of cages. person lost his life by.*. . .being crashed in machinery. do do being crushed by trestleing. , do do . . . hemorrhage. 28 persons came to their death by the above accidents, leaving 17 widows and 62 orphans, and 88 non-fatal accidents. Shenandoah District Casualties and their Character. Twenty six fatal accidents occurred in this district during the year ; but since the 22d of September the district was divided, and all the collieries situated west of the eastern limit of Girardsville and north of Broad mountain, in Schuylkill county, and all the collieries in Columbia county, were cut off and the same added to Shainokin district, which accounts for the increase in fatal casualties in the Sham'okin district this year. Character of these Fatalities, 8 persons lost their lives by falls of coal. 3 do do falls of rocks and slate. 1 person lost his life by ... . breaking of ropes and chains. 1 do do falling into slopes and shafts. 3 persons lost their lives by explosions of boilers. 3 do do being crushed in the rollers. 2 do do being crushed in machinery. 2 do do falling into open breasts 1 person lost his life by. . . .an explosion of fire-damp. « 1 do do being crushed by wagons. 1 do. 26 persons came to their death from the above causes, leaving 11 widows and 49 orphans, and 114 persons were maimed and injured.
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