Download or read book Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library Pittsburgh Pa written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library Pittsburgh Pa written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Investigation Underground Coal Mine Inundation blackdamp Moss No 3 Portal A Mine I D 44 01642 Clinchfield Coal Company Duty Dickenson County Virginia April 4 1978 written by James D. Micheal and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Underground written by Robert E Hartley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes of the accidents, identify who was to blame, and detail the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities. Politics at the highest level of Illinois government played a critical role in the conditions that led to the accidents. Hartley and Kenney address how safety was compromised when inspection reports were widely ignored by state mining officials and mine company supervisors. Highlighted is the role of Driscoll Scanlan, a state inspector at Centralia, who warned of an impending disaster but whose political enemies shifted the blame to him, ruining his career. Hartley and Kenney also detail the New Orient No. 2 mine explosion, the attempts at rescue, and the resulting political spin circulated by labor, management, and the state bureaucracy. They outline the investigation, the subsequent hearings, and the efforts in Congress to legislate greater mine safety. Hartley and Kenney include interviews with the survivors, a summary of the investigative records, and an analysis of the causes of both mine accidents. They place responsibility for the disasters on individual mine owners, labor unions, and state officials, providing new interpretations not previously presented in the literature. Augmented by twenty-nine illustrations, the volume also covers the history, culture, and ethnic pluralism of coal mining in Illinois and the United States.
Download or read book 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster written by Bob Campione and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal in the United States was discovered in the 18th century by landowners and farmers on the slopes of the hillsides in the Appalachian region. It was not until the late 19th century that this black rock would become a part of an industrial revolution. One of the first mines to commercially produce coal was in Fairmont, West Virginia, and began the Consolidated Coal Corporation. On November 20, 1968, the Farmington No. 9 mine explosion changed the course of safety for future mining and the lives of 78 families whose sons, husbands, fathers, and loved ones never came back from the cateye shift the next day.
Download or read book Report of Investigation Underground Coal Mine Inundation blackdamp written by James D. Micheal and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No 9 written by Bonnie Elaine Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Monthly Statement of Coal mine Fatalities in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Labor Dispute in the Bituminous Coal Industry written by United States. Board of Inquiry on the Labor Dispute in the Bituminous Coal Industry (1950) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Commission Appointed to Investigate the Cause of Recent Disastrous Explosions in the Coal mines of Southeastern Kansas and to Suggest Some Means of Preventing the Recurrence of Such Disasters written by Kansas. Commission to Investigate the Cause of Recent Disastrous Explosions in the Coal-Mines of Southeastern Kansas and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hurricane Creek Massacre written by Thomas N. Bethell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Report written by Illinois. Department of Mines and Minerals and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States written by United States Bureau of Mines and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Monthly Statement of Coal Mine Fatalities in the United States written by Albert Hill Fay and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Miracle of Hominy Falls written by Tom Surbaugh and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miracle of Hominy Falls...The against all odds story of survival during the 1968 Hominy Falls, West Virginia coal mine disaster is told through the hand-written journal of trapped miner John Moore. His daughter Vicki tells of the nearly two weeks of waiting and wondering if they would ever see her father and his co-workers alive after the flooded mine cut them off from the outside and the world. Faith and calm heads prevailed as all but four miners working nearly two miles inside Big Sewell Mountain would eventually make it out alive in what has been described as nothing short of a miracle.
Download or read book Report to the President on Anthracite Coal Strike written by United States. Bureau of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
