If the use of electric safety lamps were made compulsory in all mines, and the safety-lamp conditions, except so far as they related to shot-firing, were imposed, ...
Article : 745 wordsTwo of the three railway trucks which were derailed early last night near the Watt-street entrance to the goods yards. One truck crashed against the side of the signal and telegraph building and crushed a wooden staircase. A shunter had to jump for safety. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsThe fatal accident rate of employees in New South Wales collieries was not worse than in the metalliferous mines, the Royal Commission on Safety and Health in Mines indicated. It was substantially the same as in the ...
Article : 1,216 wordsThe Commission says that there does not seem any reasonable ground for fear that if mechanisation were increased in the mines ...
Article : 1,501 wordsThe Commission found that there was no substance in charges against inspectors that they were guilty of favouritism towards managers. ...
Article : 730 wordsAn important recommendation on ventilation is the prohibition of the use of furnaces in mines that are not small within the meaning ...
Article : 1,785 wordsThe Commission was directed to inqure into the subject of workers' compensation with the object of determining whether it is ...
Article : 568 words'"Expert opinion on the whole is in favour of the method of simultaneous firing," the Commission reported. "It is said that experiments have proved that ...
Article : 189 wordsThe majority of the dangers that arise in thick seam mining were connected with the removal of the top coal. The terms of General Rule 23 of section 54 ...
Article : 324 wordsIt is suggested that there should be a regulation that no horse in an unfit state for work for any reason shall be allowed to leave the stables. ...
Article : 133 wordsAt present 160 coalmines are operating in New South Wales, of which 73 are described as large and 87 as small. A small mine is one in which not more ...
Article : 77 wordsRegarding the fire at the Waratah colliery in 1938, which wan investigated by the Commission, the report states—"There was no evidence to suggest incendiarism, ...
Article : 212 wordsGraph showing rates of fatal accidents per 1000 employed and per 100,000 man days worked in coalmines in New South Wales, United Kingdom and United States of America for the following periods—New South Wales, 1926-1938; United Kingdom, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsDealing with complaints made by various witnesses as to the nature and extent for the provision for ambulance services, the Commission says that further ...
Article : 155 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsReferring to bathhouse accommodation, the Commission says that while it does not recommend that colliery proprietors be compelled at once to make alterations ...
Article : 59 wordsMrs. Phoebe Ann Gallimore, 52, of Avon-street, Mayfield, was found dead in the kitchen of her home late yesterday afternoon. Her husband, who returned from ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Tue 20 Jun 1939, Page 8
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