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

INSPECTOR OF MINES. 39
Statement of Second District Collieries.
Racapitulation of the collieries of Shenandoah district, showing tlieir
shipments, the power and force employed, the number of fatal and nonfatal
accidents that occurred during the year, to wit
There are 41 slopes, 10 shafts and 48 drifts in operation, 1,470 breasts of
coal are worked, 271 steam engines with 548 steam boilers are in use, 43
steam fans of 866-horse power are in use for ventilating the collieries ; 7,176
men and 2,850 boys=10,026 hands are employed—868 mules and 3,297
wagons are in use ; 26 fatal and 114 non-fatal accidents occurred, leaving
11 widows and 49 orphans. 2,520, 179 tons of coal had been sent to market,
and 480,000 tons had been locally used, making an aggregate of 3,000,179
making one fatal accident for every 116,319 tons mined,
tons of coal mined ;
and one fatal accident for every 385 persons employed.
duty, 178 ; number of miles traveled, —
Visits on official
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