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Department of Mines India. Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines in India Under the Indian Mines Act (VIII of 1901) for the Year Ending 31st December 1916

1917

A special committee of inquiry was appointed by the Government of Bihar'and Orissa towards the end of the year to investigate the question of the housing of labourers at the collieries in the Province. [...] Considering the primitive methods of mining and concetration the scarcity of labour and of supervision the general absence of capital the difficulties of transport in an unusually mountainous and thickly wooded area the prevalence of malaria and the abnormal distribution of the rains the increase should be regarded with gratification New roads and mule tracks were constructed during the y [...] What is far more likely is that the gas flowed through the goaf to the cavity from which the fall of roof expellOd it in which case it either came from the goafing of the solid coal immediately to the west of the red ring or flowed over from the neighbourhood of the yellow ring. [...] It was noticed when the court made an inspection of the apparatus that the pulley wheel at the top of the head frame over which the rope goes from the engine to the shaft was not revolving in an absolutely vertical plane and this in itself would be enough to throw the rope out of the centre as it passed through the aperture. [...] In his evidence to the Inspector of Mines the agent said noticed that the rivets of the iron ring at the top of the north bonnet were loose and the woodwork was cracked down the side of the bonnet.
agriculture environment
Pages
114
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100187
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii G.F. Adams view
Frontmatter
i-1 G.F. Adams view
Explanatory Introduction
1-1 G.F. Adams view
Section I.—Persons Employed
1-2 G.F. Adams view
Section II.—Output of Mineral
2-4 G.F. Adams view
Section III.—Accidents
4-16 G.F. Adams view
Section IV.—Prosecutions and Additions to the Act
16-19 G.F. Adams view
Section V.—General Remarks
19-v G.F. Adams view
Appendix I. Statistics of Mines and Minerals
23-42 G.F. Adams view
Appendix II. Accidents in Mines
43-73 G.F. Adams view
Appendix III. Prosecutions Under the Mines Act
74-74 G.F. Adams view
Appendix IV. Miscellaneous
75-96 G.F. Adams view

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