Injury experience in coal mining, 1968. Information circular
Totals of 311 fatal and 9,639 nonfatal disabling work injuries occurred at respective frequency rates of 1.33 and 41.12 per million man-hours of worktime in the coal mining industry of the U.S. during 1968. For all injuries, the severity rate was 10,513 days lost or charged per million man-hours and the average severity was 248 days lost or charged per injury. Two major disasters, both mine explosions of gas and dust, killed 87 men, nine in one and 78 in the second. The injury data are classified by degree of injury, causes of injury-producing accidents, part of body injured, nature of injury, general work location within the operations, industry subgroups, States, and other analytical factors related to accident-prevention work. (Author) (GRA)
- Research Organization:
- Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7096697
- Report Number(s):
- PB-211886; BM-IC-8556
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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