Author: Hiram Brown Humphrey
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Harry Dobroski
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Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Category : Coal mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Bonnie Elaine Stewart
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Ninety-nine men entered the cold, dark tunnels of the Consolidation Coal Company's No.9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. Some were worried about the condition of the mine. It had too much coal dust, too much methane gas. They knew that either one could cause an explosion. What they did not know was that someone had intentionally disabled a safety alarm on one of the mine's ventilation fans. That was a death sentence for most of the crew. The fan failed that morning, but the alarm did not sound. The lack of fresh air allowed methane gas to build up in the tunnels. A few moments before 5:30 a.m., the No.9 blew up. Some men died where they stood. Others lived but suffocated in the toxic fumes that filled the mine. Only 21 men escaped from the mountain. No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster explains how such a thing could happen--how the coal company and federal and state officials failed to protect the 78 men who died in the mountain. Based on public records and interviews with those who worked in the mine, No.9 describes the conditions underground before and after the disaster and the legal struggles of the miners' widows to gain justice and transform coal mine safety legislation.

Author: James Whiteside
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803247529
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens in fiery explosions, but more often they died alone, crushed by collapsing roofs or runaway mine cars. Many old-timers in coal-mining communities and even some historians haveøblamed the high fatality rate on ruthless coal barons exploiting miners in the single-minded pursuit of profit. The coal industry preferred to blame careless miners. James Whiteside looks beyond those charges in seeking to explain why the western coal mines were (and, to some degree, still are) dangerous and why territorial, state, and federal laws failed for so long to make them safer. Regulating Danger is the first extended study of the coal-mining industry in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. It exceeds the scope of traditional labor history in focusing on working conditions and the problems of workers instead of unions and strikes. After examining the inherent physical dangers of the work, Whiteside shows how the interplay of economic, social, and technological forces created an envi-ronment of death in the western coal mines. He goes on to discuss evolving industrial and political attitudes toward issues of responsibility for mine safety and government regulation and the fundamental changes in the industry that brought about safer working conditions.

Author: Charles M. Keenan
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Category : Carbon compounds
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Frederick Lynne Ryan
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Hiram Brown Humphrey
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Hiram Brown Humphrey
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Hiram Brown Humphrey
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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