White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-14
Shelter Houses
for Employees
SAFETY FIRST BULLETIN TELLS
HOW MEN ARE PROTECTED
FROM FLYING ROCKS FROM
BLASTS IN BIG PIT.

company ana the Stepf0e valley
Smelling and Mining company. was
Issued the past week, and is a publ
cation of about 80 pages. including
the illustrations. One of the illus
trations and the appended original
poem by the editor of the Bulletin
are reproduced in this issue of the
News. and speak for themselves. The
other illustrations are from photo
graphs in the companys steam shoy-
ell pit and show the sheet steel safety
houses to shelter employees from fly
ing rocks from blasts. These shelter
houses constitute an important fac
tor in the general system of prevent
ing injury to employees, and are NOV
ed from place to place as desired by
the powerful locomotive cranes used
in the shovel pit. The shelter house,
says the Bulletin, Is the ultimate re-
suit Of an employees suggestion. and
one or more If necessary will be pre-
yided for each steam shovel Says
ltht builtlin II 10 lnttnutu bHt
shelter will be kept about fifty yards
away from the shovel, within easy
distance, so that employees will have
no excuse for not seeking cover when
blasts are being fired ahead of the
shovel" These shelter houses are
CONSTRUCTED in the shape of a pyramid
and a 20 about ron foot cuuara ~ .ba
base with apex twelve feet from the
ground. They are built of No. IL
guage steel. over frame of 6xG
Itimbers, and of very strong construc-
Ition. Each shelter is provided with
a ring at the apex. by means of which
the locomotive crane can lift 1t from
point TO point. This is one of the
best shelter houses in design and in
construction to be found in use in
open pit operations in this country.
If shovel crews and pit men will use
it. and foremen must insist upon its
use. the mine accident record can
soon be free of accidents hit by
flying rock from blast
The following are extracts from
the Bulletin. which may be consider
ed of general interest:
The Months Record
The casualty for the month of
May has been very favorable one
OF total number of twenty disab-
ing accidents. only one has resulted
in the loss of over fourteen days to
injured employees. The total time
lost to the employees injured will
be about ninety days. estimating the
period of disa bility. in the case of
one employee who has not as yet
returned to work. at thirty days.
This is an average of about four
days per man injured Or, elimin-
iating the one serious or thirty DAY
disability the average of time lost
by the remaining injured employees
was about three days. This indicat-
ing that the casualties during the
month were not of serious nature.
Reference to the respective records,
herein following will show. that:
At the yteran Mine, there were
five disabling accidents. all of a tri-
vial nature, so far as results in per-
isonal injuries are concerned. Four
of the injured employees lost one
days time each, and one man laid
off four days. One strange feature
of the Veteran accidents for the
month, was that all accidents report
ed occurred on Foreman Murphy's
shift This is just a matter of hap
pen-so, however. and Is no reflection
upon Mr.. Murphy. as this "old timer"
is known to be one of the most care
full, conscientious shift bosses in the
mining field today.
AT Copper Flat. there we're eleven
disabling accidents, as result of
which ten injured men lost twenty
nine days time. an average Of three
shifts per man injured while one,
more serious. will cause the injured
man TO suffer about a months lay-
off Details of the accident record
show that nearly all of the casual
les during the month were shops
and works aeeidents-not mine acci
dents, and that many of them could
have been prevented b. the exercise
of cafe on the part of the injured
man.
At the Coneentrator OF total
of about eight hundred men employ-
ed one man only received accidental
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