Parliamentary Papers, 23. köideH.M. Stationery Office, 1877 |
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Accidents-continued Agent Air-ways Barnsley Bilston boiler Brierley Hill cage Cause of Death Chesterfield Clay Cross Coal Mines Coal Mines Regulation Coatbridge Colliery Colliery Company Darlaston deceased district Ditto Ditto Ditto Dudley Durham engine Evans Explosions of Firedamp Fall of coal Fall of roof fall of stone fatal accidents feet fell fire-clay fired firedamp ground Hall Hill hole Iron ironstone James John Killed by fall Lanark Lane Leeds Limited List of Fatal Lives lost Long wall Main Coal manager Metalliferous Mines Mines Regulation Act Miscellaneous Underground Moor Name of Colliery North Owner or Company Owner's or Company's Park persons employed Persons killed Pontypridd Postal Address R. A. Cross Remarks Reputed Age Ruabon safety lamps seam shaft shot Silkstone situated Slate South Splint Stoop and room surface Thomas Thos Tipton tons Total tubs Upcast ventilation Virtuewell Walsall Wednesbury West Bromwich Wheal whilst Wigan William Wirksworth Wrexham yards دو
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Page 105 - It is lawful for all the subjects of this realm to search for, sink, and dig mines or veins of lead ore upon, in, or under all manner of lands of whose inheritance soever they...
Page 363 - An adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly produced in every mine to dilute and render harmless noxious gases to such an extent that the working places of the shafts, levels, stables, and workings of the mine, and the travelling roads to and from those working places shall be in a fit state for working and passing therein.
Page 359 - ... appended thereto, to be posted up in legible characters, in some conspicuous place at or near the mine, -where they may be conveniently read by the persons employed...
Page 363 - Records of Mining and Metallurgy ; Or Facts and Memoranda for the use of the Mine Agent and Smelter.
Page 358 - ... and shall be inclined at the most convenient angle which the space in which the ladder is fixed allows...
Page 281 - checkweigher ') at the place appointed for the weighing of such mineral in order to take an account of the weight thereof, on behalf of the persons by whom he is stationed.
Page 330 - ... settle the rates or rules or deal with the application, as the case may be, in place of the joint district board, and any minimum rate of wages or district rules settled by him shall have the same effect for the purposes of this Act as if they had been settled by the joint district board : Provided that, if the members of the joint district board representing the workmen and the members representing the employers...
Page 105 - Vict. c. 94, art. 5, which provides that the miner, so long as his mines shall be worked, is entitled, without making any payment for the same, to the exclusive use of so much surface land as shall be thought necessary by the barmaster and two of the grand jury, and to be set out by them, for the purpose of laying rubbish, dressing his ore, briddling, making meers or ponds, and conveying water thereto, and any other mining purposes.
Page 277 - In every working approaching any place where there is likely to be an accumulation of explosive gases, or in any working in which danger is imminent from explosive gases, no light or fire, other than a locked safety lamp, shall be allowed or used.
Page vii - Act and those under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act. The summaries of the statistics for the 12 districts classed under the Coal Mines Regulation Act consist of four separate documents in tabular form, showing the aggregate number of persons employed during the year, above and below ground, in the M 2 2G8 coal, fireclay, ironstone, and shale mines of Great Britain and Ireland.