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

S6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Thus showing that 28 persons lost their lives in and about the collieries
of the district during the year, leaving 17 widows and 62 orphans ; against
35 deaths last year, leaving 14 widows and 65 orphans. On the 22d of September
the district had been enlarged, it comprises all the collieries in
Schuylkill county that are situated south of Broad Mountain, and the col-
lieries of New Boston basin, except Brookside colliery. The district at
present contains double the number of collieries it did last year. The
diminution in fatal casualties under its present management is very gratifying.
We here give the character of these fatal accidents, to compare them
with those of former years :
Character of Fatal Accidents.
Lost their lives by falls of coal 8
Lost their lives by falls of rocks and slate 3
Lost their lives by explosions of fire-damp 7
Lost his life by fall of timber 1
Lost Ifts life by an explosion of powder 1
Lost his life by being crushed by wagons 1
Lost his life by fall of slope cage 1
Lost their lives by breaking of slope chain 3
Lost his life by stroke of a drum sweep .
1
Lost his life by falling into an open breast 1
Lost his life by hemorrhage at work 1
Total fatal accidents during the year 28