Twenty Third Annual Coal Report Of The Illinois Bureau Of Labor Statistics 1904 PDF Download

Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Coal Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1904: Also the Sixth Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices for the Year Ended October 1, 1904 Aside from those who are pecuniarily interested in the coal busi ness the chief concern of the humanitarian is the loss of lives inci dent to the operation of mines: Mortality from different causes seems to keep pace with the volume of production. The year covered by this report exceeds all others, the number killed being 157 or per employés. This is over one-half more than the fatal accident rate in the British mines. The number of non-fatal accidents was 507, an increase of 97 over the previous year. 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.