Bulletin Volume 131, PT. 35 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...are the essential safeguards. Workmen grow thoughtless of their own personal interests when continually subjected to dangers. It is very probable that the majority of the deaths classified by causes in Table 18 were due to carelessness of the victims themselves. The final responsibility is therefore placed to a very great extent on the individual worker. 35. Safety Rules for Underground Haulage.--Keep locomotives, cars and track equipment in good repair. Standardi0e car equipment, such as bumpers and couplings. Illuminate haulage ways so that men need not carry individual lights on motor tracks. Have head-lights on locomotives and markers, gongs or lights on rear cars of trips. Have safe clearance between cars and one or preferably both ribs of entry. Maintain whitewashed refuge holes at regular intervals. Use block fillers to top of rail-web in flangeways and wedgespaces in frogs and switches. Use low-voltage trolley current; support wire at short intervals, so that sag will not exceed 3 inches; guard trolley with boxing 3 inches lower than wires, especially where men travel, as at junctions and stations where man-trips are made up. Start locomotives only on signal from trip riders and after giving warning bells. Ring bells before all junctions. Keep car-doors and latches in repair and inspect reclosing. Give special instructions for spragging and blocking cars. Place limitations on speed of travel. Maintain special instruction for motormen and trip riders regarding the making-up of trips. Give instructions in coupling cars. Impress on all working in the mine the necessity of personal caution. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ILLINOIS COAL MINING INVESTIGATIONS Bulletin 1. Preliminary Report on Organization and Method of Investigations. 1913. None...