Mining Accidents and Their PreventionScientific publishing Company, 1889 - 421 páginas |
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... feet of travel , and which are even arranged to come into action automatically . These brakes can be fitted to existing plant expeditiously and without practical difficulty . A terrible calamity occurred on the 30th of December , 1886 ...
... feet of travel , and which are even arranged to come into action automatically . These brakes can be fitted to existing plant expeditiously and without practical difficulty . A terrible calamity occurred on the 30th of December , 1886 ...
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... feet 2 inches in diameter . One serious defect of this system , if applied in localities where fire - damp may ( 1 ) Minutes of Proceedings Inst . C.E. vol . xxviii . p . 118 . ( 2 ) Ibid . p . 113 . occur , appears to be that , if the ...
... feet 2 inches in diameter . One serious defect of this system , if applied in localities where fire - damp may ( 1 ) Minutes of Proceedings Inst . C.E. vol . xxviii . p . 118 . ( 2 ) Ibid . p . 113 . occur , appears to be that , if the ...
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... feet below the surface , in the Hetton , Elemare , Ap- pleton , Boldon , and Harton Collieries , county Durham . Holes , ranging from 1 inch to 3 inches in diameter , and in length from 7 to 47 feet , were bored into the coal either ...
... feet below the surface , in the Hetton , Elemare , Ap- pleton , Boldon , and Harton Collieries , county Durham . Holes , ranging from 1 inch to 3 inches in diameter , and in length from 7 to 47 feet , were bored into the coal either ...
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... feet 10 inches into very hard and compact coal , at a depth of 1480 feet from the surface , was 430 lbs . on the square inch , the gas being given off from the open hole at the rate of only 0-3 cubic foot in twenty - three hours . A ...
... feet 10 inches into very hard and compact coal , at a depth of 1480 feet from the surface , was 430 lbs . on the square inch , the gas being given off from the open hole at the rate of only 0-3 cubic foot in twenty - three hours . A ...
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... feet may part with about 44 cubic feet of its gaseous contents . In mines where natural or very feeble additional ventilation is trusted to , such an effect of variation in atmos- pheric pressure in causing or promoting the issue of ...
... feet may part with about 44 cubic feet of its gaseous contents . In mines where natural or very feeble additional ventilation is trusted to , such an effect of variation in atmos- pheric pressure in causing or promoting the issue of ...
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Página 343 - Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None of...
Página 350 - ... without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal...
Página 308 - ... sureties, conditioned personally to try such appeal, and to abide the judgment of the Court thereon, and to pay such costs as may be awarded by the Court, or...
Página 349 - By the statute in question it is provided that "no employee shall be required, or permitted, to work in a biscuit, bread, or cake bakery, or confectionery establishment, more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day...
Página 274 - For any injury to person or property, occasioned by any willful violations of this act or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured for any direct damages sustained thereby...
Página 328 - ... is endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Página 268 - ... two separate outlets, separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in breadth, by which shafts or outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to the persons employed in the mine, but...
Página 381 - ... deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Página 232 - State, and the works and machinery belonging thereto at all reasonable times, by night or day, but so as not to unnecessarily obstruct or impede the working of the mine, and the owner or agent of such mine is hereby required to furnish the means necessary for such entry and inspection; of which inspection the inspector shall make a record...
Página 385 - ... if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same the directors present shall choose some one. of their number to be chairman of such meeting.