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LOC Photo, Print, Drawing. U.S. Library of Congress. 1941. Mainiero, Richard J.; Verakis, Harry C. "A Century of Bureau of Mines/NIOSH Explosives Research" (PDF). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ~ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Department of Health and Human Services. Tuchman, Robert J.; Brinkley, Ruth F.
Mine ventilation is one of the many capital costs of extending the mine. Mines without good safety culture were often lethal to the workers in centuries past, and although the per capita rates of injuries and deaths are lower in modern mining, they are still nonzero. Cave-ins are another significant risk.
The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]
This week's coal mine disaster in West Virginia brings with it grim but familiar images and headlines, a new chapter in American coal mining's sometimes tragic legacy. The accident also reminds us ...
Vulpes et lignator from Sebastian Brant's 1501 edition of Aesop's Fables. There are both Greek and Latin sources for the fable. They tell of a hunted animal that asks a man to hide it. When the hunters enquire if he has seen their quarry, he says he has not but indicates the hiding place by pointing to it or looking at it. The hunters take him ...
A fire boss is a person employed at a mine or state certified official, responsible for examining a mine for dangers, particularly explosive, poisonous or suffocating gases. Usually the fire boss is the first person to enter a mine , to verify its safety, before a shift crew enters.
Rosa Bonheur's 1853 painting of the charcoal burner returning home from work. A charcoal burner proposed to his friend the fuller that they share quarters in the same house, but the fuller replied, "That would be impossible, for whatever I whitened, you would immediately blacken again". [2]