Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Mines for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1923 Below is a Comparison Of: fatal and non-fatal accidents during the fiscal years 1922-1923. Fatal Fatal non-fatal non-fatal year Fatal non-fatal Inside Outside Inside Outside 1923 3 85 908 9 344 41 754 154 1922 330 542' 305 25 461 81 55 (1) 39 (i) 16 (i) 73 (1) During the year covered by this report, only four accidents occurred at the mines in this state in which two or more persons lost their lives. This list embraces accidents from all causes. Braxton County - May 9, 1923, James. M. Hinzman and Louis F. Flint, Americans, coal loaders, were instantly killed at Home mine, Home Coal Company, by an explosion Of powder while preparing shot. Brooke County - June 26, 1923, Fred Cooper and Eugene Murphy, Ameri cans, miners, nere killed at the stripping operations of Locust Grove mine, West virginia-pittsburg Coal Company, when bank caved in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.