The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27


those due to mine cars and locomotive:
and thosesdue to electricity. As practical
ly all of the accidents given under the lat
Ter classification occur on the main haul
age roads from persons coming in contac
with the trolley wire, precautions tending
to prevent such accidents may properly
be considered in this connection.
'''rhe total fatal accidents, the number
of accidents due to mine cars and loco
motives and those due to electricity botf
above and below ground and the percent
ages of these two classes as camparet
with the total accidents in 1910, 1911, 1911
and the first five months of 1918 are as fol
lows:
1910-Total number, 2S40; due to min,
cars and locomotives, 476 1916 per cent
due to electricity, 81, 2.96 per cent.
19l1-Total number, 2719; due to mine cars
and locomotives, 43S, 16.11 per cent due tC
electricity, "a, 3.46 per cent.
1912-Total number. 1869; due to mine car:
and locomotives, 43o, 1872 per cent; due tc
electricity, So, $50 per cent.
1913 Give months)-Total number, 9S5
due to mine cars and locomotives, 200, 2o.S(
per cent; due to electricity, 81, 3.15 pei
cent.
The percentage of accidents due to mine
cars and locomotives for 1910 and 1911 is
Spver 16 per cent of the total, about two
of the l6 per cent being accidents which
occurred above ground. For 1912 the total
number of accidents has decreased, but
the percentage of accidents due to mine
cars and locomotives has increased to
1922 while for the first five months OF
1913 1t Is 20.S0 per cent.
THE accidents due to electricity aver
age from 2.55 per cent to $50 per cent
being greatest in 1872 although the num-
Der of accidents had decreased from "a
in 1911 to S5 in 1912.
The total percentage of both of these
classes was 1872 in 1910, 1887 in 1911, q. 80
in 1912 and 23.i5 per cent in five months
of 1918; so that the percentage of acci-
dents due to haulage appliances is appar-
emily increasing.
In Alabama in 1872. u men were killed
by tram cars and seven were electrocuted
As there were III fatal accidents, the per-
centage of fatalities due to these two
causes are 10 per cent for cars and 81 pei
cent for electricity Two men were killed
by hauage rope and three by railroad
cars, so that the total percentage of fatal
tiles from haulage appliances, above ane
under ground, is 20 per cent of the total
Occurred in Entries
tEishty-thre out of the 80 mine car and
locomotive accidents and all of the IS
electrical accidents occurred on entries
the other seven fatalities due to mine cars
and locomotives occurred in rooms or on
slopes.
'Out of the SO fatalities due to mine
cars and locomotives on entries, ~ were
of drivers and the balance of miners
leaders and miscellaneous employees
Most of the 56 accidents to miners and
others In entries were due either to being
run over by trips or getting squeezed be-
tween the rib or timber and a trip. The
most frequent accidents to drivers and
trip attendants We're slipping or getting
jerked off the front of trips and so falling
under them, falling while jumping on OF
off moving trips and getting caught be-
tween rib or timbers and cars, or between
cars while colpling. Most of the haulagc
accidents in rooms were cases where the
miner was caught and squeezed between
the coal face and the car while attempting
to drop car into room.
THE electrical accidents were almost
all due to persons travelling the haulage
dentally touching the trolley wire by some
as pick. auger drill, bar, ETC.. which they
were carrying.
1.-The installation of manways parallel tc
ali main haulage roads and the strict en-
forcement of a rule compelling the use OF
these by the miners in going to and from
their working place instead of the haulag,
road would automatically make large re
duction in the number of haulage acct
dents on entries. These manways shoulC
be kept in good condition at all times sc
that the miner would not be likely t.
choose the haulage roads in preferenc,