Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1927 Page: 89
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COMPARATIVE SEVERITY OF DIFFERENT CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS 89
TABLE 54.-Placer mines: Number of men killed and injured, by causes, during
the years ended December 31, 1926 and 1927-ContinuedCause
Mine cars, mine locomotives, or aerial trams_----------
Railway cars and locomotives....-------------------------
Falls of persons _ . ..------------------------------------
Stepping on nail _- - - - - - - -- - --_- - -- - - - - - - -
Hand tools, axes, bars, etc ....----------------------------
Machinery-_-
Other causes --------------------------------------
Total, surface ---------------------------------
Machinery..
Electricity ......................
Falls of persons..................................
Tools ....................................... ....
Other causes........--------------------------------------
Total, dredging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .
Cave of bank _ ..... . . . . . . . .
Explosives---------------------------------------..............................................-......
Hydraulic giants...........................................-----------------------------------..
Falls of persons _........................
Rock while handling .-------------------
T ools _- - - - - -- --_- -- - - - - -- - - - - -- - - - -
Machinery ---- ----------------------------------------
Other causes....--------------------------------------
Total, hydraulicking.. ...... ..---------------------------..
Grand total..........................-- -... ...........1926
Killed Injured
-- ---- ----------
. .16
.. 4
15
_ .._ _ 15
-- - - - 55
_---------- _ 105
3 1
......... 19
........ - 22
1 64
4 + 1291927
Killed Injured1
1
1,
13
1
26
16
20
27
91
184
8
20
15
23
661
- - - - ---- - --- ---- -- -- ----- -. 1
. .- - - ---- -- - -- --2 2
1-. . .. .. _. 2
2--- - 1-- - -6
6 4
.2..........4
1 1
1 4270
325
TABLE 55.-List of accidents in metal and nonmetallic mines (except coal) in the
United States in which five or more lives were lost. (Incomplete and unoficial)
Date Product Name of mine Location Killed Nature of accident1869-Apr. 7 Gold..........
1873-Sept. 20 ...- do.........
1874-June -- ...do.........Kentuck-Y e11 o w
Jacket-C r o w n
Point.
Yellow Jacket.....
Amador...........Gold Hill, Nev..
.--- do----.--.-.
Amador, Calif....1881-Feb. 16 Copper........ Belmont.......... Belmont, Mont..-
1885-Nov. 13 ----.-.----.-.-Bull Domingo.... Silver Cliff, Colo_.
1887-June 24 Gold, silver.-- Gould & Curry-- Virginia City,Nev.1889-Nov.23
1893-Apr. 21
1895-Mar. 10Copper........ Neversweat-St.
Lawrence.
_-..--------.--_-Silver Bow No. 2..__Butte, Mont......
.....----do ..---------Gold-.......... Old Abe ________.. White Oaks, N.
Mex.Sept. 7 Copper........ Osceola .......... Calumet, Mich .
1896--Apr. 8 Gold ........ Hope.............. Basin, Mont-.....
Apr. 11 Copper........ St. Lawrence-.... Butte, Mont ....
1901-June 4 Iron---------........... Chapin---------......... Iron Mountain,
Mich.Nov. 20 Gold, silver___
Smuggler-Union__ Pandora, Colo.....
37
6
5
6
10
6
6
9
8
30
7
6
8
31IFire in timbers, prob-
ably from candle.
Fire from blacksmith
forge on 1,300-foot level.
Fall of cage; night shift
coming to surface; 5
men in cage; when
within 5 feet of surface
cage suddenly fell to
bottom, 1,640 feet.
Fire from blacksmith
shop spread to maga-
zine of powder and
then to shaft.
Explosives; box of dyna-
mite exploded in boiler
room; headframe
burned; men in mine
suffocated.
Fire in shaft station 1,500
level; cause unknown.
Mine fire; candle in
chute on 400-foot level.
Mine fire; probably from
candle at pump sta-
tion.
Mine fire; burning shaft
house and shaft tim-
bers.
Mine fire on twenty-
seventh level; cause
unknown.
Mine fire.
Powder explosion.
Explosion of dynamite;
asphyxiation by fumes;
cause unknown.
Fire in bunk house at
mine entrance.
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