The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-05-06
TROPHY WINNERS
OF "SENTINELS OF
SAFETY" ANNOUNCED


Hoover of the Department of Com
merce, of the names of mines and
quarries adjudged winners of the ma
tional safety competition held under
the auspices of the Bureau of Mines,
for the bronze trophy "Sentinels of
Safety, donated by the Explosives
Engineer magazine. A Maryland
quarry operated $50 days and worked
2O2,663 man hours during 1925 with
no loss of time from accidents. Four
other quarries, located in Indiana,
Tennessee, New York and California,
also operated with no loss of time due
to personal injuries. In addressing
eongratulatory letters to the winners,
Secretary Hoover vizualized the great
economic benefits, both to producers
and consumers of coal, ore and stone,
from this nationwide effort to prevent
accidents, in which during its first
year more companies and individuals
had participated than in any other or
gained safety contest.
Nearly 500 of the larger mines and
quarries participated in the COMPETE
ton, the contestants being divided into
five groups; anthracite mines, blum
inous coal mines, metal mines, mines
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quarries or open pit mines. A re-
plica of the trophy is awarded to the
mining operation in each group sus-
tanning the smallest loss of time from
accidents in proportion to total time
worked during the year. Determine
ton of the winners was made by a
jury of award comprised of officials
of various mining quarrying associa-
tions, the National Safety Council, and
the American Federation of Labor,
based on tabulation of mine accident
data prepared by the Bureau of Mines.
A feature of the competition is the
awarding of certificate of honor,
signed by the Director of the Bureau
of Mines, to every employee of each
of the winning mines and quarries for
their share in the low accident records
made by their companies.
The winner in the anthracite group
is the Upper Lehigh, mine, Upper
Lehigh, Pa, operated by the Halle
Brook Coal Company. In this group,
honorable mention was accorded the
Midvalley mine, Wilburton, Pa, oper-
ated by the same company.
The winner in the bituminous coal
mining group is No. 6 mine of the
United States Coal and Coke Company
at Gary, W. Va. Honorable mention
was given the No. mine of the same
company, also located at Gary; and
the Rossiter No. and 5 mine, at
: Rossiter, Pa, operated by the Clear
field Bituminous Coal Corporation.
In the underground metal mining
group, the New York zinc and lead
mine of the New York Mining Com
pany, at Pitcher, Oklahoma, was adj
judged the winner. Honorable men
ton was accorded the Beaver lead and
zinc mine of the Commerce Mining
and Royalty Company, at Garden,
Oklahoma; the Velton zinc ore mine
of the Eagle-Picher Lead Company
: Bicefield, No.; the lead mine of the
st. Louis smelling and refining works
of the National Lead Company, at St.
Francois, Mo-; and the Goodwin lead
and zinc mine of the Eagle-Picher
Lead Company at Picher, Okla.
In the group of underground mines
producing non-metallic minerals, the
trophy was awarded to the Lower gyp-
, sum mine of the United Gypsum Com
pany, at Gypsum, Ohio. Honorable
mention was accorded the Ironton I'M
foreground limestone quarry, operated
by the Alpha Portland Cement Com
pany, Ironton, Ohio; the Crystal City
sand mine of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company, at Crystal City, Mo-; the
limestone underground quarry of the
Alpha Portland Cement Company, at
Midtown, Indiana, and the Ball unger-
ground high calcium limestone quar-
ry of the American Lime and Stone
Company, at Bellefonte, Pa.
In the quarry and open pit mine
l garry of the North American Cement
l Corporation, at Security, Md. Honor
: able mention was accorded the cement
, rock quarry of the Louisville Cement
Company, at Speed, Ind; the lime
7 stone quarry of the Dixie Portland &C.
ment Company, at Richard City,
Tenn; the Cemeton quarry of the
) Alpha Portland Cement Company, at
: Cementon, New York; and the ande
site quarry operated by the City of
Los Angeles Harbon Department on
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