Coal-Mine Fatalities in May, 1926 (open access)

Coal-Mine Fatalities in May, 1926

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the coal-mining related deaths in May, 1926. The 126 accidents are documented and categorized. The accidents are analyzed in order to prevent future accidents, and to implement safety procedures. This report includes tables.
Date: June 1926
Creator: Adams, William Waugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accident-Severity Rates For Certain Metal Mines (open access)

Accident-Severity Rates For Certain Metal Mines

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the severity of accidents in the metal-mine industry. 34 metal-mines documented the number and severity of all accidents over the course if one calendar year. This report includes tables.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Adams, William Waugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Future Timber Supply for Coal Mines: What One Company is Doing (open access)

Future Timber Supply for Coal Mines: What One Company is Doing

Report discussing a case study of a coal company in Western Pennsylvania to show how mining companies might decrease their timber bills.
Date: November 1926
Creator: Tracy, L. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
What is Known about the Effect of Smoke on Health (open access)

What is Known about the Effect of Smoke on Health

From title page: "For some years the Bureau of Mines, in connection with its investigations relating to efficiency in the combustion of fuels, as been engaged in a study of smoke prevention. Popular support for such work is usually based upon the injurious effects of smoke on the human ssytem, and this paper is published as a contribution to the literature dealing with that subject."
Date: December 7, 1926
Creator: White, William Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library