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PJ.GB. lNTBODUOTION- Relates to administration of the Act 1 Other mining statistical publications 1 Scheme- of report : 1
SBCTION J.-PBBBONB BliiPLOYBI> Average figures of labour 1 Increase compared with previous year • 1 Shortage of labour at the larger coal mines in Bengal and Bihar 2 Housing of lobour, Committee meetings 2 Sardarie recruiting in A!'sam, affected by war recruiting ·, 2 Reot·uiting in Centl·a.l Provinces, nfiected by war ncruiting 2 Scarcity of labour in Bihar and Orissa Mica field 2 Labour Association, formation of, for Bihar and Orissa mica field 2 Tribute surfnoe mining abolished in Bihar and Orissa mica field 2 Chinese labour, imported to Tavoy Wolfram field .. 2 Supply of Chinese Labour in Tavoy, equal to demand 2 Ticket cfleave labour in Tavoy, experimental importation of 2 Haza1·ibagh labour, continued importation of, to Tavoy 2
8BCTION II.-:OUTPUT OJ MINBBJ.LB-:- Coal output, increase on previous year ll , in Jharia, Manbhum, Bihar and Orissa 2 u Central Provinces 2 , , Bokot·o ... Raii~:garh, Bihar and Orissa. a ,. Mugma Area, Bihar and Orissa. 2 , ,; Assam, North-West_F1·ontier Province and-Punjab 3 decrease in Raniganj, Beng.d 3 n Giridih, Bihar aod Orissa 2 , ,. Baluchistan ...... 3 , Pl'rcentage of total output raised in Bengal and Bihar .lnd Orissa 2 opening and closing stocks - 2 despatches ll colliery consumption ' • 2 amount delivered to coking 2 amount of soft and hard coke made 2 , comparioon of conditions betweeiL the Bengal and Bihar fieldo 3 W&l' l'equirements, influence of, over Bengal and Bihar 6elds 3 per person employed, in India • s u ,, ,. u England . 3 , _Conh'oller, methods of regulating mattel'9 by, not aifeotiug period covered b.r. t'el>ort s
1, output, given sufficient labour, could be inoreaaed 8 , ,, larger and deeper mines, affected by scarcity of maohinel'y and plant 3 Mica output, decrease in · 8 · compared with previous year • 3 increase in Bihl\r and Orissa milJ& field 3 decrease in Madrllll mica field 3 abnormal rise in prices £o1· smaller sizes 3 '\ , certain qualities, sought, for munition purposes a , mining, being cal'l'ied on with greater energy and improved methods 3 Manganese output, deOi·ease in 4 , compared with previous year '• .. strong demand for munition work '4 shortage of tonnage relieved by Government shipping arrangements 4 prices higher than previons year , riae in freights and insurance '4 Wolfrani_output, substantial increase in compared with previous year ' inoreas·e due to adoption of lode mining ' tribute oyotom responsible for much waste ' future of industry hopeful ' mines, being equipped with modern maohinery ' ii CON'l'EN'i's-contci.
SBCTIOll 11.-0UTPUT o• MiliBBALS-cont Aoeident at; the Barakar Coal Company, Limited's . . '' " New Sul'8hlnd Coal Co L' . Gourangd, coal m~ne " " Hon'ble MaharaJ'a M ~p~ny,di,'mSlted's New Surat•nd coal mi~e 6 'k · • an 8 outh-East B b • '1 •• Gb uu and Mnslia Cnn· · L' . "'" om coal mine .,..,enes, lmlted's Ghllllik coal mine • '1,8 8 CONTEN .PJ.GB, SBorrnN III.-AoorDBN-rs-con ttl. Falls of side- ,Accident at the Bansdeopur Coal Company, Limitel's Bansdoopur coal mine 9 In shafts- Accident at the Katras.Jharia Coal Comp•ny, Limited's Sibpur coal mine II Irruption of water- Accident at the Sham pur Coal Company, Limited's Sun lar~hak coal mine 9, 10 • .Haulage- Accident at tho Union Coal Company, Limited's Angarpntra coal mine 11 Sundries underground-_ Accident at the Bengal Coal Company, Limitei's Sitolpur coal mine 11 Accidents -Non·fatal- · Explosion of gas-- Acoidont at tho Harilodih Coal Company, Limited's Akhalpur coal mine !1, 12 In shafts- Aooidont at tho Sondra Coal.Company, Limited's Sondra co>! mine 12 Surface Machinery- Aooidont at tbo Tata Iron and Steel, Company, Limited's Malkera Choitodih coal mine lll SBOTION IV.-PBosBourroNs AND ADDI~toNs ro TRB AcT.- Prosocntiona under tho Indian Minos Act Rajput Colli Company's Pirorgoria ooal mioo 13 North Jharia CJoal Syndicate's Dhans"'' co•l mine 18 Central Tontnlia Colli Comp1ny's Contra! Teotulia coal mine _ _13 Satya Taran Chowdhury's Pandodih ooal mine IS J etnr Venkatanarapa Riddy's Tatiparti mica mine 13 Rupial Agarwalla's East Cb.andrab•d coal mine 13 &awji Dasa Bichardasa' Gararia ooal mine 13 Kujama Colliery Comp•ny'o Kujama ooal mine 13 Gunpat Ram Mal'Wt\ri's Kessebga.nj coal mine 13 Sinidih Coal Concern'• Sinidih ooal mine 13 Bholanath Chatterjee's Harip11r ooal mine •. 14 Bhattacha~ja and Ghosh'& Sonardih ooal mine 141 Srimati Sindu Bala and Tara Pada Cbatterji'• Chota Dhellll cJal mine a P. K. Chatt•rjee'o Konda coal mine 14. J airam Shivaji & Company's Central Jharia coal mine 14 Bamanband Coal Company, Limited's B.•m•nband coal mine a G. C. Dey's Kandra cool mine H. Lodna Colliel'Y Company, Limited'• Lodna coal mine 14 Marin Coal Company, Limited's East Kurkend coal mine 14. New Fatka Coal Company's New Fatka coal mine 14 B. K. Lahiri's N ayadanga coal mine 14. Prosecutions under Special Rules- Kanga & Company'• Alkuoa coal mine l\lo Motirsun Coal Company'• Kurkend coal mine 1" 16 Bengal Coal Company, Limited's Sodepore coal mine 15 .flonsjora Coal Company, Limited's Bansjora coal mine 15 Central Tentulia Coal Company, ~ited's Central Tentulia coal mine 15 I Seotion 15 (4) of the Indian Mines Act, Requioition 11nder, made by an Inspector of lllines, objected to by a colliery owner 15 ., (5) of tho Indian Mines Act, Reference to Committee •ppointed under Section 10 16 10 (6) of the Indian Mines Act, Objection submitted to Lo••l Government 11ndor 15 Permits cancelled Additions to the Indian Mines Act- ISootion 21 E•tablishment of Special Rules at coal and manganese minos 16 .. PA.Gllo SzcfJOB v.-GBBBB.I.L RBMABXS.- Heallh and Sanitation- A18naol Mines Board of Health.- 15 Number of meetings • • ' 16 ··No change in pe1~onnel of unofficial members Enforoement of compulsory Vaccination AMt 15 , , Bengal Vncoination Act liS Ap~intment of Registrars of Vital Statistics "' liS , , Board Vaooinaton • • • • ~IS • Vaccination, compalsory throughout Assansol Mining Settlement 16 Precaution taken against epidemic disoasoa • 16 ·Number of C880S of and doatha from epidemic diao88ea 16 Jharia Mioea Board of Health Number of meetings 16 Reconstitution of Board • 16 Drlft Now Mining Sottlemento ~ct • 16 Epidemic Diseases Act, extended to whole Mining Sottloment 16 Bulletina, publication of, for prevention of diaeasea 16 · Numbur of caaea of, and deatbe from, epidemic diaeasoa 16 Epidemio Diaeasea- Cholero at iron ore mine in the Singhbhu:n Diatriot, Bihar and Oriaaa 16 , u manganese mine in Bhandara District, Central Provinces .. 16 Plague at mauganeae mine in Chindwara District, Central Provinoea 16 Rainfall Statistica- New Jharia Water Works and Coalfields of Jharia, Giridih and Raniganj 16 Mining Education- Report of Profoasor of Mining at Sibpor College, 16 Attendance of students, Seasiou 1916·17 16 Reault of annual examination 16 Annual mining camp . . 16 Mining Educational Advisory Board, meetinga hold by .· 16 Locturea in coal fiolda, continuance of . • • 16 result of sessional examination 16 in Bengali and Hindi 17 Board of Examiners for coal mine managers' cortiflcatos Cbange in personnel of Board · 17 N uinhor of meetings held , • 17 ?' " Indian certi6oatos of oompoten~y gr.:ntod ln lie~ of E~g1iah csrtiflca!ea. 17 Cerhficatoe of sorvics granted • · • • • • • • 17 Result of o~amination for colliery m•na:sers' certificates of competency 17 Local exammers, Secretary and Assistant Secretary 17 Mining Boards- Bengal, Bihar and Oriaaa and Central Provincoe , Number of meetings held • • • • 17 Business transaolod 17 Non-official members 17 17 Mining and Geological Institute of India- Membership • • Number of meetings held • 17 Geological map of Jh01·ia coal field 17 Award of Government prize • 17 , institute medals • 17 Change in Addroso of institute 17,18 18 A.nocialion of Colliery Managers in India- Membership , • • • • Questions engaging attention of Council 18 18 Land Acquisition (Mineo) Act, 1885- N umber of cases dispooed of under Aot 18 Official dutiea- Personnel 18 OONTENTs-oonold. v PJ.GI, SHOTION- V.-GBNBB.I.L RBHABXB-oonttl. Mineo Equipment Prlority Committee Local Committee formed 18 Pereonnel- N nmber of applications for Priority disposed of 18 • APPBNDIX I.-STJ.iiBTlOS 011 MINDS AND Mll APPBNDIX u .....:.AcoiDBNTS IN MINBS. Table No. 1.-List of fatal-acoiden!s 39--60 2.-Fatal and serious aooidonta •• 61-64 ., 3.-Fatalaccidents and death• classified according to age an·! sez • 65,66 ., 4. -Fatal accidents classified according to cause 67 APl'BNDIX !H.-Prosecutions under the Mines Act • 68,69 Al'PBNDIX IV.-MISCBLLANBOUS. Statement No. 1.-List of inspection circles 70 ., 2.-List of certificate holders - • 70, 71 8.-List of mining Universities and Colleges approved by Government for purposes of Rules 32 and Si of the Act 72 ,. 4.-Sibpur College mining classes · 73 ., 5.-Mining-inetrnction io Bengal and Bihar and Orissa 74-76 , 6.-Central Provinces Administration's Notification, Constitution and personnel ' of Mining Board for the Central Provinces . 76 .. ., 7 .-Order by the Coal Controller under Defence of India Act governing the opening of new mines after 31st December 1917 77 .. ·., 8.-Partioul~rs to be furnished under Section4, J,and Ac'luisition (1\liuos) Aot, 1885 77 F.ROM G. F. ADAMS, EsQ., M.INST. 1 C.E., Chief Inspector of Mines in India, To THE SECRETARY TO_THE GOVERNME:KT oF INDIA, DEPAR'rMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Dated Dhanbad, the 13th June, 1918. SIR, I HAVE the honour to submit the'report upon the inspection of mines in British India for the year ending 31st December 1917. · EXPLANATORY INTRODUCTION. It is necessary to explain 'that this is a report relating entirely to ihe administration of the Indian Mines Act, 1901, and is not a complete statistical review of Indian mining and analogous industries. It should be remembered in reading the statistics that there must be a considerable output from quarries ~which are under 20 feet deep ; and owing to the exclusion of such places from the scope of the Mines Act, these figures should not be regarded as a complete indox to the production of the mineral wealth of the country. - Figures of production of all minerals raised in British India and the Native States, whether from workings under the Act or not, are published annually in the Records of the Geological Survey of India, whilst every five years a Quinquennial Review of the Mineral Production of India is issued by the same Department. The latest review published is that for the years 1909-13 (Records, Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVI). Figures for Mysore, where most of the Indian gold is raised, are given in the report of the Chief Inspector of that Native State, and mineral statistics may also be found in the administrative reports of the various Presidencies, Provinces and States of India. ' This report is divided into five sections, viz. :- Section !.~Persons employed. , H.-Output of mineral. III.-Accidents. " Iv:-Prosecutions and additions to the Act. " V.-General remarks. " Section I.-Persons employed. , During the year 1917 the average number of persons working in and about the mines regulated by the Indian. Mines Act was 211,881 of whom 133,042 worked underground and 78,839 on the surface. This is an increase of 13,!l62 workers or 7·05 per cent. ~- - One hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-two were adult males, 72,770 were adult females and 7,439 were children under 12 years of age. Those employed in coal mines numbered 153,683, which is an increase of 10,224, compared with those employed in 1916. a 2 In spite of this increase the owners of the larger coal mines in :Bengal and in :Bihar and Orissa were badly off for labour, specially durin!!: the latter part of the year and complaints were rife that such labour as did attend did far less work than usual. The reasons were partly the good l~arvest of 1916 and an abnormal monsoon in Hll7, which gave heavy t•ain and which lasted beyond the usual period, but the unusual condition of the coal trade referred to in the next section undoubtedly played its part and influenced the distribution of labour. The Committee appointed by the Government of Bihar and Orissa, to investigate the question of the housing of labourers at the collieries in the Province, as mentioned in the last report, held several meetings and submitted · theil' report. In Assam Sirdari recruiting resulted in 491 labourers being recruited by 245 Sirdars, as against 491 in 1916 by nearly 400 Sirdars, while 113 Makranis were obtained, as against 175. There was, however, an increase in the recruit· ment of Nepalese, the figures being 949 as against fl61. The figures include women and children. The Sirdari recruiting appears to have been- affected by war recruiting. The same remark applies to the collieries in the Central Province~, where labour was scarce and there was a difficulty in inducing coolies to leave their homes. In the Bihar and Orissa mica-fields, labour shortage was very much felt, but towards the end oE the year vigorous recruiting improved the position for· the time being. A Labour Association was formed in December, which it is hoped will operate with benefit to the industry generally. The old system of tribute surface mining was abolished and this step should result in economy of labour. In the Tavoy Wolfram field many of the Chinese coolies imported in 1915-16 have settled in the district. On the other hand several left, probably owing to the higher wages obtainable in the Federated Malay States. On the whole the labour supply was not equal to the demand. An experiment was made of importing ticket of leave labour. Most of these, however, were Bm·mans who, as a race, have no natural aptitude for mining. Imported lnbour from the Hazaribagh district in Bihar and Orissa co~inued to be used ' and to fill a useful place in the local scheme of work. Section H.-Output of Mineral., COAL, There was a large increase in the output, which was 17,326,384 tons. This is an increase of 907,302 tons or 5'53 per cent. over the output of 1916, the average increase during the previous ten years being 730,641 tons. This is the first year in which the seventeenth million has been reached, and the increase represents an addition of nearly one million tons in two years. The opening stocks were 697,276 tons, and the closing stocks were 518,838 tons. The despatches amounted to 14,979,190 tons, and the colliery consumption to 1,835,510 tons (10·59 per cent. of the output). The amount of coal delivered to coking was 690,122 tons, from which 190,329 tons of hard coke and 225,120 tons of soft coke were made. Analyses of these figures will be found in Appendix I, table 2. 'l'his increase was general throughout British India, and only in five of the seventeen coalfields was there failure to respond· to it.. Amon<>st these five however, were the important Raniganj and Giridih coalfields, th~ other thre~ being small fields. 'l'he main incrense was in the Jharia coalfield the output of which was 833,470 tons more than in 1916, and there were' substantial increases in the coalfields of the Central Provinces, the Bolcaro-Ramgarh field and the portion of the Ranigmj coalfield lying to the west of the Barakar river generally known as the Mugma area. If it had not been for the increase i~ the last named, the decrease in the Raniganj coalfield on the whole would have been even more marked than it was. Of the t?tal output! 16,562,712 tons, or 95·59 per cent. were raised in Ben~al and l3Ihar and Or1ssa, the :percentage of the :previous five years bein~ 95·89. It is difficult to draw any comparison between the conditions in these two coalfields in 1917, and those previously existing, as they were to such a large degree influenced, even dominated, by war requirements. All the bettor ?oa~s were requisit,ioned by Gov~rnment for milital'y purposes, direct and md1rect, at fixed prwes, and these coals naturally had the benefit of priority as regards transport. The result was that the demand for the non-requisitioned coals exceeded the available supply, and prices for such coals ranged far above the prices of the requisitioned coals, and were abnormally high, especially if their inferior quality is taken into consideration. It may be safely stated that by the end of September there was not a mine in the Jharia coalfield, capable of being worked, which was not being worked, many of them being minute con· cerns, raising inferior coal, which bad been closed down for years. 'l'he same remarks apply to the Mugma area of the Raniganj field. Of the twenty-five largest concerns in both fields onlr, five showed increases, and some. showed considerable decreases, compared w1th 1916. Towards the end of the year, a Coal Controller was appointed but his methods of regulating matters did not affect the period covered by this report. In the other provinces, there were increases in Assam 5·00 :per CEmt., the Central Provinces 29·06 per cent., the North-West Frontier Provmce (output, negligible) 186·66 per. cent., and the Punjab 1)·10 per cent., and there was a decrease only in Baluchistan of 3·26 per cent. No coal was worked in Burllla, from whence a negligible output was obtained in 1916. The output per person employed during the year was (a) below ground 152 tons, and (b) above and below ground 113 tons. The figures for the five years preceding were (a) 178 and (b) 115. Taking each group of coalfields separately, these figures were as follows :-Bengal and Biliar (a) 186 and 1H1, (b) 115 and 116; Assam (a) 156 and 170, (b) 102 and 112; Baluchistan (a) 67 and 69, (b) 4.3 and 45; the- Central Provinces (a) 135 and 120, (b) 88 and 82 ; and the Punjab and North-West-Frontier Province (a) 72 and 71, (b) 48 and 46. The output in England in 1916 was 323 tons per person employed below ground and 251 tons per person employed above and below ground. . The whole question of the output of Indian coal is one of labour. Given a sufficient supply, the output from the existing workings could be increasAd 60 per cent. . During the year the effects of scarcity of machinery and plant and the inability to obtain replacements and additions for development from Europe began to be felt. Naturally this constituted a greater drawback to the owners of the larger and .deeper mines. . MICA. The outpnt was practically. stationary, being 35,896 cwts. as compared with 35,978 cwts. in 1916. This was the result of an increase of nearly 10,000 cwts. in the Bihar and Orissa field being balanced by an equal decrease in the Madras field. In the first-named field conditions . in the earlier part of the year were much the same as in 1916, with prices ruling furm and supplies considerably short of the demand, particularly for the better qualities, though stained mica was in considerable request. 'l.'be unusually heavy rainfall, e•pecially that of the 31st July, when 13 inches were recorded, resulted in most of the minos being flooded. This had the effect of still further increasing prices and tempo rarily reducing the output, which, however, recovered. rapidly. In the latter half of the year, an increasing demand for the smaller sizes, chiefly frorn America for wireless telegraphy apparatus, resulted in an abnormal rise in their value. The work in this field is now being carried on with greater' energy and improved methods. New roads are under construction, and in other ways the Local Government have assisted the mine owners to improve conditions generally. In the Madras field, in spite o~the encouraging features of the market, there was, as stated, a marked decrease in the output. A considerable number of new plots were prospected but very few turned out well. MANGANESE. There wa8 a decrease in the output, which was 497,252 toils, as compared with 568,032 tons in 1916. This is a decrease of 12·49 per cent. The demand was strong, for munitions work, in all the allied countries. The shortage of ·tonnage continued, but the special arrangements made by Government for shipping, as in 1916, went far to relieve it. Prices advanced still furt-her and the average rate per unit for the year was 37i pence, which is a distinct ,advance on that for 1916, which was 29-l pence. The further rise in freights, insurance and other charges, incidental to shipping, resulted, however, in the exporter being in about the same position as he was in 1916. WOLl!'RAM. There was again a substantial increase in the output, which was 79,312 cwts. In 1916 59,094 cwts. wer~ produced, making the increase 34·21 per cent. This increase was most noticeable in the first half of the year, whieh points to its being the result of lode mining rather than of hydraulic methods. The tribute system, which is still-the one mainly practised, is responsible for much waste of mineral. There are more hopeful signs for the future in· that increasing attention is being paid to the deeper deposits, the exploration of which will necessitate modern methods of miniag and of ore concentrati••n. There are now four air compressor plants, operating machine drills, and two mines are equipped with milling machinery of fairly large capacity. In hydraulic mining much progress bas been made, and water rights have been granted to 'enable several important schemes to be put 'into operation. The most important scheme comprises a reservoir with a capacity of. five hundred and fifty million gallons to supply water_ under a head of approximately 1,800 feet to turbo generators which will develop power to electrify most of the machinery of a large mine and also to dri:ve dredging machinery. An Advisory Board has been formed and has met monthly since May for the discussion of all matters bearing upon the industry. The installation of a magnetic separator at Tavoy has been of much assistance in the separation and cleaning of concentrates for shipment. Great progress has been made in road construction throughout the field. GEMS. There was again a small decrease in the output, which was 198,200 carats. In 1916 209,724 carats were raised. '!'his is a decrease of 5·49 'per cent. . The de~and for rubies in the Home m~rkets was somewhat spasmodic nnd prices remamed unchanged. In the Indian market there was a considerable busi~ess ~n most GOLD . . _ The output ag~in decreased slightly, being 22,991 ounces as compared - With 23,235 ounces m 1916, a decrease of 1·05 per cent. COPPER ORE. The· output increased wi~h n leap and was 20 108 tons compared with 2,671 tons in 1916, being an increase of nearly 653 per cent. ' OTHER MINERALS. T~ere wer~ incre~ses iu lime~tone, iron ore, magn Section III.-Accidents. During the year 1917, at mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, there were 175 fatal accidents, being an increase of 35 as compared with the number in 1916, and au increase of 5, as compared with the average number of the last five years. · 'l'hese accidents 'nvolved the loss _of 20llives, which is a decrease of 5 as compared with 1916. There was no accident causing loss of life on a large scale. In four cases three lives, and in 18 cases two lives were lost. . Of these accidents I regard (a) 91 as being due to mi~adventure, (b) 46 to the fault of deceased, (c) 7 to the fault of fellow workmen, (d) 10 to the fault of subordinate officials, and (e) 21 to the fault of management. 1'he largest increase was in falls of roof and sides, which numbered 92. This is an increase of 22 over those of the previous year. Fifty-four of them occurred in the coalfields of Bengal and Bihar and Orissa, and in 19 cases they were due to the fault of the deceased. Going througp. fences to rob pillars caused 9 of such accidents. 'l'he method of testing the roof was found to be faulty in more than one case. Merely to strike the roof or overhanging side with a rod or pole is often a useless precaution, where there are" slips " and, consequently, large masses ready to fall. 'l'he roof should be felt by hand, and in high galleries by means of a second pole, while being sounded. In two cases, persons were killed by the fall of ironstone nodules or boulders in the roof. It is safest to remove such as soon as they are encountered. The next largest increase was in haulage accidents, which were 19 in number as compared with 12 in 1916, and in sundries unde1·ground which were 15 as compared with 7. In four cases of haulage accidents, the coup lings wera found to be faulty. In many mines there are two or more different types of couplings, which have proved to be a source of danger. It is far safer to have one standard type. Whatever type is adopted, regular examination and periodical annealing is essential. Shaft accidents showed a slight decrease, and surface accidents remained stationary. Shaft accidents in metalliferous mines tend to increase, and the condition of such shafts should be a matter for attention by the management. There were three aceidents causing deaths from electricity, a decrease of one. The death-rate per thousand persons employed was ·9.5, while that of the preceding five years was 1'08. At coal mines only, these figures were 1·06, and 1·20, and at mines other than coal '64 and ·70. · At coals mines in England, during the ten years ending with and including 1916, the death-rate per thousand persons employed varied from 1·09 (lowest) to 1·61! (highest). Tho death-rate per million tons raised at coal mines only was 9·41, while that of the preceding five years was 10'53. At coal mines in England, during the ten yea.rs ending with and including 1916, the death-rate per million tons raised varied from 4·31 (lowest) to 6·37 (highest). Of the 201 persons killed, 183 were males and 18 were females. The deaths occurring in each class of mines were as follows :-"- One hundred and six:ty-three in coal mines, 7 in gold mines, 1 each in iron, limestone, manganese, steatite and clay mines, 5 in mica mines, and 21 in wolfram mines. One person lost his life by explosion of gas, 61 by falls of roof, 50 by falls of side, 16 in shafts, 3 by suffocation by gases, 9 by ex:plosives, 4 by falling into water, 20 by haulage, 15 by other accidents underground and 22 on tho surfaoo. A list of these persons appears in Appendix II, table 1. In addition to this there were 30 other accidents causing the death of 30 persons. T~toso .alMo appear in Append~x: II, ta~le 1, but are list?d .separately, a reW!on bomg gtvon in each case for thetr excluf!lon from the statlshcal tables. In the Bengal and Biltar coal mines, where moRt. of the statistical accidents occur, there were 1H:! deaths compared with u,7 in 11H6. Each accident is briefly described in Appendix: II, table 1, but the follow· ing are reported on at greater length. 'J'he numbel'S refer to the numbers in the appendix. FALLS OF ROOF. No. 7.-The 13arakar Coal Company, Limited'• Gourangdik coal mine. In this accident, which is illustrated by plan A, tho pillars of coal, shown cross hatched in black, had been goafed in the usual method of mining and, while the work persons were engag-ed on the pillars next to them, a collapHe of the mine occurred, extending in a very short time over the whole of the area shown single hatched. '!'he geneNI body of workmen managed to escape, one person, however, being killed and one injured. Two other per11ons, who were imprisoned at the bottom of the air shaft marked A on the plan were rescued owing to the intrepid conduct of Mr. 0. H. Whiffen, the Assistant Manager, and some workmen. News of the disaster was brought to Mr. Whiffen and he was told that the two men were calling for help at the bottom of the air shaft. Accompanied by a Birdar, narnei llideMhi Kol, he proceeded underground as fat' as the point B on the plan, which was the only road leading to the imprisoned men. 'l'his they found partly blocked with stone, and as the roof beyond was cracking badly and stone was falling, they decided to return to the surface for assis· tance, in case the road should be completoly blocked, once they had passed through it, in which case their retreat would have been cut off. At the surface they organised a rescure party consisting of themselves, two miners and two timber men. , Realising that their retreat might still be cut off, Mr. Whiffen instructed other men to P.rcpare a rope and tackle for use at the air shaft at .A, to draw them all up, if necessary. They went underground again and found the gallery at B, again blocked with .tone, which had fallen in the interval. A road, measuring 4 feet high by 2 feet wide, was scraped through the fall, and the party traverHed the ~a.ssage into the open galleries beyo.nd. 'l'hey continued on theit· way, and finally reached the bottom of the atr shaft and found the two men, who were pinned down by a larg-e stone and unable to move. 'l'his was at thE, corner of one of the four shaft pillars, one of which had already collapsed, while the others were rap!dly ~rushing. With the aid of a long lever, whtoh Mr. Whiffen had ~rought with lnm, the stone was prised up and the men released. '!'hoy were In an exhausted state and quite helpless. As the tackle had not been erected at the air shaft, Mr. Whi!Ten cleoid~, f;o carry the men back the way the party had come. When they got to the gallery at B, they found it once more blocked with stone from a fresh fall and a new road had to be c~earerl, before the party could 11ass through. As soon as the~ had all ~assed through, t~e road closed again and, when they reached the surface, they found that the a1r shaft from the bottom of which they harl rescued the men, had also collapsed, so that no tackle could have saved them. The B~den col.lapso of the mine, over so large an area, is one more example of pll~rs.bemg too small to sustain the altered roof strain induced by goaling operatwne. 1 7 No. 18.-The New Suratand Ooal Oompany, Limited'' New Sw•atand coal mine. This accident, which is illuRtrated by plnn n, occurred in an area in No. ] " Beam in which coal was being dropped by tho method known 111 the Giri11lh method. 'l'he seam is 25 feet thick. Up to the time of the occurrence, five pillars bod been extracted in this way, and the sixth was being extracted when the fatality took place. 'l'bese pillars formed a line of pillars adjoining a solid harrier of coal and wore being got from "dip" to "rise." The seam is fairly flat, the gradient being only 1 in 10. The first roof 1had fallen in the goaf, but the main roof had not come in. The syst,em of extraction was as follows :-A "clwwkidar "was left against the goaf side in each instance, along the wlwlc width of the pillar {10 feet to 50 feet, as the case might be, by 10 feet wide). A gallrry, 6' x 6', was driven along the "chowkidar," through the pillar and on the floor. Above this, on the edge of the "chowkidar," two "chutnees," 5' X 2', were driven, one just above tho 5' gallery and tho other next the roof. Tl1e remainder of the pillar was cut up into "stooks," about 6' X 6', by galleries driven on tht> level and on the dip course in the bottom of the seam, the number of " &iooks" being determined by the size of the pillar. In this rarticular instance there were seven "stooks" and a "chowidar," measuring 50 X 10'. 'l'hese "stocks" had been further reduced in area to ap· proximately 5'x4' and 4'x4'. It was intended that three dynamite shots should be fired in each "stook," so as· to shatter them finally and cause the overhead coal to fall. On the day of the accident, everything had been prepared for so dropping the coal. Twenty-one shot hales, each charged with 2 or 3 cartridges of dynamite, were ready and three men, one of whom was killed by this accident, went in simultaneously to light the fuses. 'l'he over man was standing outside. Deceased appears to have been detailed to light the fuse in the two outside " stooks." Almost as soon as the men had gone inside, the overman heard a grinding in the roof, and shouted to the men, two of ,whom ran out into safety towards the rise. 'l'he coal broke away suddenly on the outside rise corner, and afterwards fell altogether, completely burying deceased. There is no doubt that this system of dropping roof coal can only be carried out with safet;r where the roof over the coal is an exceptionally good one and where, therefore, sudden weight is not thrown by the roof on to the pillar of coal being got. Even at Giridih, where conditions are most favour· able and where the staff have been specially trained for years, accidents occur from time to time. In the present instance the only factor of safety lay in the solid barrier of coal alongside the line of pillars being extracted. Butlfor this support the system could not have been adopted at all. No. 27.-The Hon'ble Maharaja Sir M. 0. Nandi'1 South East Baroboni coal mine. By this accident, which is illustrated by plan C, the manager of the colliery, Mr. George Jack, who was held in high esteem in the coal-fields, lost hislife. · 'Ihe last stage in the extraction of a pillar in a seam 14 feet thick was in operation at the time, and a " stook " of coal, about 3 feet square, had to be removed. Coal bad been taken off the pillar in the usual way, advancing from the solid to the previously formed goaf, and props had been " set" systematically to the roof coal, which was about 2 feet 6 inches in thickness. Above it was shale, 5 feet 6 inches in thickness, and above that the main roof. It appears that Mr. Jack entered the goaf in the early morning. lie gave instructions to the workmen to further reduce the " stook ," and to "set" more props, as they cut. He then went to the surface and, on returning to the goaf, !lbout 10 o'clock, heard that the roof had been "weighting," and found the men 8 apprehensive of danger. He examined the place, and had two more props set, after which he Mked the men to cut the ~· stook." o1;1t. The~ s~owed a disinclination, through fear of danger, to carry out his Wishes, pomtmg to a very pronounced" slip," which traversed the roof near the" ~to~k,". as the reason for their apprehension. He tried to reassure ~hem .by mdicatmg how well timbered the place was and at last took a piCk himself and attacl{ed the "stook." He worked for a considerable time, probably an hour, at the same time listenin"' intently for any movement of the roof, while three or four men carried away the coal. Suddenly a "weight" came over the place and he shouted a warnin"' to everybody to go away. Just as they got clear of the goaf, the shale roof collapsed and he and two workmen were caught by falling timber, which had been swayed out. The two workmen were quickly released, having suffered only slight injuries, but deceased was pinned down by a prop, which was partially. covered with coal and stone. He was unable to move. The Agent of the colliery was informed of the occurrence and immediately proceeded to the spot. Deceased was released and was taken to hospital, but unfortunately succumbed that night, after an Ofl'lration. An examination of the place after the accident disclosed the fact that, as fr.r as could be seen, no props were broken by direct pressure. They appear to have been swayed out by lateral pressure, possibly origmating at the" slip." Probably deceased did not forsee that this was a possilJility. His eagerness to remove the "stook" apparently overruled his judgment. He knew that the "stook," if allowed to remain, might throw the wei~ht forward over the stand ing pillars, thereby endangering work in the next goaf, and might also give. rise to spontaneous combustion. No. 49.-Ghusik and Muslia Oollie1·ies, Limited's Ghusilc coal mine. This .,.,.as another case of improper working in the getting out of pillars. While four miners were engaged in extracting a pillar in a seam 11 feet 6 inches thick, a fall of roof coal and stone occurred, measuring 38' x 16' x 3' to 5' thick. Three men were killed on the spot. The coal pillars were set out at centres 60 feet apart and the normal width of the galleries was 15 feet. The Inspector of Mines who enquired into the case consideren that undercutting in the seam and pillar robbing were practised to excess. These practices naturally tend to make the extraction of pillars more dangerous. The width of the particular gallery, opposite which the pillar was beiug extracted, appears to have been 20 to 24 feet in width and up to a few ~ays before the accident it was. untimbered. It is said that afterwards props were set. Some props were admittedly set but the occurrence of the accident proved that they were insufficient for protection. ' Since the accident the following instructions have been issued by the n;a~agemet;t to the officials. The adoption of them by managers may prevent Similar accidents:- {1) Before th~ extraction of any pillar, the gallery from which the pillar starts IS. to ~ave at least two rows of props set in it. If the g~llery IS Wide enough, further rows must be set, so that the d.Istance between ea~h P.rop does not ex.<'eed 3 feet in any direc tion. Th~reafter, tlus distance (3 f:eet) Is to be observed through out the pillarmg, a_s the greatest distance at which props are to be spaced. The distance can be made ·less, if considered neces- sary, but in no case must it be exceeded. · (2) At no time is the distance f~om the last row of props to the face to exceed 8 feet. The face for this purpose is the part furthest in that is to say, if the lower part of the seam has been cut awa~; a~d there is 5 feet of overhanging coal, the last row of props will be 3 feet.trom the edge of the overhanging coal. {3) A row ?f props is to be ~et close to the ~ack pillar to :prevent any cuttmg of the back side of the next pillar. 9 (4) :Before a, pillar is drawn off,-a,t least one row of props is to be set in . the gallery above that pillar from which the next pilla1· is to be started. (5) When a gallery has been standing wide for any time, special care should be taken in starting a pillar therefrom. FALLS OF SIDE. No. 82.-Ba;nsdeopore Coal Company, Limited's Bansdeopo1•e coal mine. :By this accident two men were killed and two injured. Miners were engaged in the first operation connected with the extraction of two pillars of coal 24 feet high. The coal w~ts soft and the pillars were traversed by slips. About six tons of coal fell suddenly from the side of one of the pillars. This was followed shortly afterwards by a heavier fall of 30 tons. . The first operation abovementioned, consisted of splitting the pillar by driving a gallery through it in the level direction near the floor. 'l'he com· mencement of these splits is dangerous work, as the miner has to undercut a · pillar 24 feet high. Before commencing, in addition to VP.rtical props set in the gallery, the face of the coal above the split should have been supported by horizontal struts wedged against the opposite pillar, or by inclined struts set against the coal. This was not done in this case, and the Inspector of Mines who enquired into tile acr.ident expressed the opinion that the place must have been in an extremely dangerous state before the accident. It is stated .that some vertical props were set, but these would not have prevented the accident. IN SHAFTS. No. 104.;._Katras·.Tha1'ia Coal Company, Limited's Sibpore coal mine. In this case a man had crossed the bottom of the shaft to release an empty tub which was jammed in the cage. A piece of coal fell on his head and he died from the injuries received. 1 Crossing a shaJt bottom in this manner is always dangerous and, in order not to expose persons to tli.e temptation of so crossing, a short way round, at the shaft-bottom, properly protected; should be provided. In this case, in order to get round to the · other side of the shaft, without crossing it, a distance of 150 feet had to be traversed. Since the accident a proper short way has be£n constructed, protected by masonry. IRRUI'TION OF WATER. :No. 120.-Slwmp01•e Coal Company, Limited's Sundarchak coal mine. Up to now Indian Mining has been comparatively free· from a type of accident very much to be dreaded and that is the irruption of a large quantity of water from a neighbouring abandoned mine. Such an accident occurred during the year under report. It is illustrated by plan D. }'ortunately there were only seven persons underground, three of whom were cut off and drowned, or the loss of life migh_t have been very much greater . . 'fhe seam worked is the Dishergarh seam, which is 15 feet thick. Above the coal is shaley sandstone, to a thickness of 4 feet 6 inches, and a.bove th~t coarse grained sandstone to the surface. About two feet of coal 1S left lll the roof of the galleries. It will be seen from the plan that the underground workings concerned are divided into two sections, north and south, separated from each other by a barrier of coal whose thickness is not known. 'l'he nortlJ section was abandon· ed before the ~ules made under the Indian Mines Act came into force and there is no plan or other record of the extent of the workings. The south ~ection onlr was at wofk at the tip1e of the accident. . p 10 There are other old workings in the vicinity, but levels, taken aft~r the accident, prove that the north section was the only one concerned with the i:p.undation. For many years water has been kno'wn to be impounded in the north sec· tion, as far back as the qual'l'y shown on the plan, which, before the accide~t, was full of water, and which the accident proves to have been connected. With the undergound wo~kings in t~is section. 'l'h~ water had exerted a maXImum pressure on the barrier, separatmg the two sectiOns, of 81 lbs ..to the square inoh. It was this water which broke through, or over, the barrier and flooded the south section. Percolation of water through the barrier was hardly perceptible .five d~ys before the inundation, when a Junior Inspector of Mines made an mspectwn of the mine, except at the point A- on the plan, where a small stream of water was issuing through a fissure near the roof. The south section is provided with two shafts, one of which, No. 6 'B, is the working shaft and the other, No. 6 S, a pumping shaft. At the time of the accident there were seven men underground. One of these was the on· .setter at No.6 B shaft, while one man was at No.1 Pump, two men were at No. 2 Pump and three men were at No. g Pump, the water-line before irrup· tion being a little way below these pumps, as shown approximately on the ...plan. The first intimation received of the irruption was a roaring noise accom: panied by a rush of air, which extinguished the lights, _ 'l'he water began to rise rapidly ant! the two men at No. 2 Pump were guided by a delivery pipe to No.6 B shaft-level and then by the rails to the shaft bottom, where they 'found 18 inches of water on the fl.atsheets. Just before their arrival the onsetter had made his way to 'the man at -No.1 Pump, to get his lamp re-lighted. In answer to the shouts of the men at the shaft bottom, they both returned there and found that the water had risen waist high on the fl.atsheets. They got-on the cage and were raised to the sm·face. They then sent the cage down empty, in case there were any more survivors. The remaining three men, who· were at No. 3 shaft, failed, however, to reach the shaft' and as no gallery in the mine had advanced far enough to the rise, to enable an air-lock to be formed, in which survivors could have been imprisoned, they were undoubtedly drowned by the rising water. All the pumps underground were lost, but other pumps were obtained and pumping operations were started with a view to dewatering the mine. Subsequently, however, the owners sold the mine to another company, who' have not .carried out any dewatering or mining operations. No inspection, therefore, of the mine has been possible. The cause of the irruption and the culpability, if any, of any one can only be decided when the workings are accessible. The manager and two previous managers were examined as to the work thr.y had done during their tenure of office and they all denied having reduced the barrier between the north and south sections. The Junior Inspector of Mines was informed during the course of his inspection that one of the previous managers had reduced the barrier, and a sirdar stated that coal was cut from the barrier, between the'points B and C on the plan, to a depth of 10 feet under that manager's instructions. '!'he latter, however, has declared that the ?nly work done in this portion of the mine by him was the extraction of pillars marked 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the plan. 'fhe pillars had shown signs of crush everywhere and much timber had been erecte~ in all: effort to arrest it.. The crush may l~ave become acute on the night of the 1rrupt10n and developed mto a collapse wh1eh extended over the barrier, The only other point of note is that two subsidences were found to have occurred after t.he irruption in the s~t on the dip side of the quarry, from where the wa~er m the quarry travelled mto the underground north workings. After the accident the quarry was found to contain no water. Whether these ~ubsidences released water, which increased the pressure on the barrier beyond Its s~rength, or whether they .were the result. of the sl!-d'den reduction of sup portmg pressure on the underside by the rapid recession of the water it i!$ not rossible to state, - - ! 11 HAULAGE. No. 128. -The Union Goal Oompany, Limited's Anga1'pat1•o, coal mine. This accident was caused by a runaway tub, which broke away from an empty set as it was being lowered in an incline. A miner was run over and killed.· It is probable that the coupling, which -consisted of three links attached to'one end of a tub and a hook on another, came in contact with a level pulley on the haulage road, which caused it, to lift. If long couplings are neces sary, and they often are when bad curves have to be negotiated on haulage roads, they should be properly designed, in order that when tubs are buffer to buffer and the coupling hangs and is likely to strike the ground, there is no chance of the link lifting and coming away from the hook. For this reason D links and pins are to be preferred to hook couplings. The accident proves the advisability of having one standard type of couplings of good design. At this mine three different varieties of couplings were in use. The eff~ct of having more than one type of coupling is that two different couplings may_ have to be connected, and it is not easy, in such cases, to connect them safely. SUNDRIES '!J'NDERGROUND. N,o. 144.-Tke Bengal Ooal Oompany, Limited's Sitalpur coal mine. A line of steam pipes underground was supported by chains at intervals, e:x:cept !1-t one p~ace where there was a bend, the range crossing the gallery at thts pomt and bemg supported by a prop. The prop was found to have fallen and a joint in the pipe to be leaking. On replacing the prop, a blow given, to wedge it tight, caused the steam-pipe to burst and one man was killed by being scalded. 'l'he accident emphasizes a faulty system of support for steam· pipes under-ground, which is very prevalent in the coalfields. Ordinary props are not a suitable form of support. They are incapable of resisting lateral pressure and are apt to fall over, throwing a sudden strain on the joints. The suspensory system described above is better, but it is necessary to see that the range is kept level. A better plan is to support the line on rollers set on masonry pillars. After this accident the prop was replaced by such a pillar. Non-Fatal Accidents. EXPLOSION OF GAS. The Harriladih Ooal Oompany, Limited's Akkalpu1• coal mine. The circumstances attending this explosion, which was fortunately not accompaniPd by loss of life or serious bodily injury, were as follows. They are illustrated by plan E. 'l'he seam worked is the Sibpur seam, which is 14 feet thick. Goaling operations were in progress, as shown on the plan. Roof coal, 8 inches thick, was left unworked in the goa£ and there may have been a few "stooks" of coal that had not been recovered. It was a comparatively small goaf, being only 330 feet b~ 100 feet. 'fhe mine was worked with naked lights, no trace of firedamp having ever been detected. Extraction had been commenced about fourteen months previously and " fire stink" was first noticed at the edge of the goaf about a week before the accident. Isolation by means of stoppings was undertaken at once, and those numbered 1 to 8 on the plan were completed on the day before the explosion, bein"' built in their numerical order. At the time of the explosion the only persgns in the district were those engaged in building fire stopping No. 9 and m putting up brattices and air stoppings. These were in charge of an assist· ant mana"'er. In addition to No. 9 stopping which had been built to a height of 3 feet, there were three more to be built to complete the scheme of isolation. Three old stoppings, which were suitably plaoed, had been allowed to remaio, o2 u · · · • d · ff ·t to make them airtio>ht. All the And had been plastered With mu m an e or d I t "d 'th mud new stoppings were made of brick or stone, set in mud an P as ere WI • but they were not absolutely airtight. ' . ' . . A loud report was heard, coming from the dll'ect1on ?f the goaf, .and !"II li"'hts in the district were extinguished by the acco~panymg rush of air, With the exception of one, which was sheltered from the direct b.last. i'he assistant manager, who was standing at the pomt A, saw a flash o: light at the point B which he took to be flame, and he concluded that an ex plosion had occurred. He was knocked over by the a~ blast, as also were two or three men-who were with him. No one else in the mme saw the flames, but a mason working at No.9 stopping stated that the air whic~ came,from t_he goaf was very hot. A good deal of smoke followed ~he e~ploswn. No cokmg was discernible anywhere, which was due to the mme bemg a wet one .. Stop pings Nos. 2 to 8 were partially demolished by the force of the explosion all in an outward direction. - This is another case of gas being formed, as a result of a. goa£ fir~, . and exploding at the fire in a mine in which, under ordinary workmg conditlo~s, no gas had ever b~en seen. The order in which the stoppings ~ere bmlt tended to diminish the chances of an explosion, because the return SI~e of the fire was the first to be built off. Unfortunately, however, the stoppmgs were not tight and fresh air was continually being supplied. to the seat of i)le fi~e. It is perhaps too much to assert that, had the stoppings been absolutely air· tight, the explosion would not have occurred; but it is probable that, had the escape of the products of combustion been entirely· cut off, it would not have occurred, or, if it had occurred, its force would have been greatly reduced. IN SHAFTS. The Sendra Coal Company, Limited's Send1·a coal mine. In this case, while a loaded bucket was being raised from the bottom of a sinking pit, 506 feet deep, the bucket caught in the bottom end of the signal wire. This caused the bucket to swing and it collided with a column of pipes, with the result that some stone fell from the bucket to the, pit bottom, and one man was injured. It transpired that the pulley wheel was not over the middle of the shaft, owing to the fact that the headframe was the permanent headframe, designed to carry two pulley wheels, to be used afterwards for winding in cages. '!'he t".onsequtnce was that there was only.l foot 6 inches of clearance between the rim of the bucket and the buntons in the shaft. It is surprising that 506 feet were sunk without an accident. If a permanent headframe is used, temporary arrangements should be made for- the pulley wheel, to be used in sinking, to be in the middle of the shaft, or at any rate in such a position as to obtain a greater clearance than 1 foot 6 inches. BY SURFACE MA,CHINERY. Pata I1•on a11d Steel Company, Limited's Malkel'a·Ohoitodik coal mine. At the close of 1916 an overwinding accident occurred owing to the partial failure of an overwinding and overspeed gear, whereby one man, who was ascending the shaft in a bucket, was carried up into the head-· frame and injured. Appliances of this kind have come into general use in England only of late years but their use is now compulsory at shafts over 300 feet deep. Only a few have yet been installed in lndia. The makers of this particular device claim that it cannot fail to act automatically, if in proper adjustment. After considerable inquiry and correspondence with the makers, tha conclusion has been arrived at that the appliance was not in proper adjustment at the time of the accident and that possibly the brakes did not grip sufficiently. Complicated devi PROSECUTIONS. Judgment was given in the following prosecutions during the year. Unless otherwise stated, "rule" means a rule under Notification No. 864-68-20, dated the lOth i\>iarch 1904, being rules for the working of coal mines. 'l'he owners (three) of the Rajput Coa1 Company's, Pirorgoria coal mine, were prosecuted under Rule 12, read with section 22(2)(b), for not furnishing the plan of the abandoned workings of the colliery. T1vo of the owners were fined Hs. 25 each. The case against the third was withdrawn. The owners (three) of the North Jharia Coal Syndicate's, Dhansar coal mine, were prosecuted under Rule 12, read with section 22(2) (b) for not furnishing the plan of the abandoned workings of the colliery. Tiley were ;fined Rs. 51 each. · , The owner and manager of the Central Tentulia Coal Company's, Cent.ral . Ten tulia coal mine, were prosecuted under section 15(2), read with section 21!(3) (a), for failing to comply with an order issued prohibiting the employment of women and children in the mine. The owner was fined Rs. 50 : the case against the manager was withdrawn. , The ·owner' and manager of Babu Satya Taran Chowdhury's, Pandedih coal mine, were prosecuted under H.ules 3, 7 and 19, read with ~ection 22(3} (e), for not keeping the roof of the mine secured, for not having several disused galleries fenced and for not having three inclines adequat.ely fenced. They were each fined Rs. 50: in default, one month's simple imprisonment. The manager of Yetur Venkatanarapa Reddy's, Tatiparti mica mine, Nellore, was prosecuted under Rule 17 of Notification No. 6436-152, dated the 2nd September 1911, read with section 22(1) (e), for failing to secure the sides of the mine, and for breach of Rule 8 of Notification No. 11793-103, dated 30th December 1908, read with section 22(2) (b), for failing to report an accident which occurred at his mine. He was fined Rs. 25 on each count: in default one week's simple imprisonment. - . The owner of Babu Rupial Agarwalla's, East Cha.ndrabad coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 1 (c), read with section 22(3) (e), for not providing a second outlet of the prescribed dimensions and under section 13(1} of the Indian Mines Act, .1901, read with Rules 46 and 47 of Government Noti fication No. 2968-82, dated the 21st April 1906, and with section 22(3) (e), for not having a properly qualified manager. He was fined Rs. 50: in default one month's simple imprisonment . . The agent and the manager of Messrs. Ramji ·Das, Bicbar Das's, Gararia coal mine, were prosecuted under Rules 3 and 7, read' with section 22(3) (e), for . not keeping secure the roof of the workings, for not fencing disused galleries, and under Rule 2 of Notification No. 11793-103, dated the 3oth December 1908, read with section 22(3) (e), for not notifying the discontinuance of the working of a seam. They were fined Rs. 100 and Rs. 50 respectively : in default two months' simple imprisonment for the former and one month's simple imprisonmimt for the latter. 'the owners and manager of the Kujama Colliery Company's, Kujama coal mine were prosecuted under Rule 2 of Notification No. 117!;3-103, dated t.he 30th December 1908, and Rules 2 (b) and 19, read with section 22(3) (e), for not reporting the discontinuance of the mine, for not having an adequate brake on the drum shaft of the winding engine and for not fencing a shaft. They were fined Rs. 100 each : in default two months' simple imprisonment. The owner of Babu Gun pat Ram Marwari's, Kessebganj coal mine, was prosecuted lmder Rules 1, 7 and 14, :;ead ~vith sectio~ 22(3) (e), for not providing a second outlet, for no~ ha_vmg dlSused gallenes fenced a!ld for not having an adequate amount of ventilation. He :was fined Rs. 45 : m default one month's simple imprisonment. The owner of the Sinidih Coal Concern's, Sinidih coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule -46 of Government Notification No. 2968-82, dated the 21st April 1900 read with section 13(1), for not appointing a properly qualified manager. He ~as fined Rs. 50: jn default one month's simple imprisonment. The owner of Babu Bholanath Chatterjee's, Haripur coal mine, was pro· secuted under section 15(2), read with section 22(3) (a), and Rules 2 (b) and 2 (e), read with section 22(3) (e), for.failing to comply.":i~h an order passed by an Inspector of Mines under section 22(3) (e)! ~rohibihng the employment of women and children under"'round, for not prondmg an- adequate bralw for a winding engine and for "not .provi~ing .guides in a shaft. He was fined Rs. 100 : in default two months' simple Imprisonment. The owners (two) of Messrs. Bhattarjee and Ghosh's, Sonardili coal mine, were prosecuted undH Rule 47 of Government Notification No. 1!268-82, dated the 21st Aprill906, and under section 1~(1), read with section 22(3) (e), for not having appointed a properly qualifiP.d manager. One owNer was fined Rs. ~00: in default two months' simple imprisonment. The other owner was acqrutted. The owners (two) of Srimati Sindhu Bala and Babu 'fara Pado Chatterjee's, Chotodhemo ·coal mine, were prosecuted under Rule 12, read with section 22(2) (b), for not furnishing a plan of a discontinued mine. They were each fined Rs.lO. The manager of Babu P. K. Chatterjee's, Khona Konda ·coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 19, read with section 22(3) (e), for not fencing a disused shaft. He was fined Rs. 10. The owners (two) of Jairam Shivaji and Company's, Central Jharia coal mine, were prosecuted under Rule 46 of Notification No. 2968-82, dated the 1st Aprill906, and ltule 7, read with section 22(3) (e), and under Special. Rul~. No. 22 made under section 21, for not having a properly qualified manager, for not having disused galleries fenced off and for not appointing in writing the competent persons necessary for carrying out the requirements of the Special Rules, and not supplying them with copies of t\Je Special Rult:s. They were each fined Rs. 50 : in default one month's simple imprisonment. The manager of the Bamanband Coal Company, Limited's Bamanband ooal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 19, read with section 22(3) (e), for failing to keep a disused shaft fenced. He was fined Rs. 50. The owner of Babu G. C. Dey's ;Kandra coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 19, read with section 22(3) (e), for not fencing the edges of a disused water-logged quarry. He was fined Rs. 100: in default one month's simple imprisonment. • The manager of the Lodna Colliery Company, Limited's Lodna coal mine, was prosecuted under Uule 20, read wit.h section 22(1) (e), for not fencing a pulley-wheel on a surface endless haulage road. He was fined Rs. 7 5. The manager of the Marine Coal Company, Limited's East Kurkend coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 7, read· with sections 22(1) (e) and 22(3) (e) for not having a disused and dangerous portion of a quany fenced off. H~ was fi_ned Hs. 150 : in default three days' silpple imprisonment. . The owner of the New Fatka Coal Company's, New Fatka coal mine was prosecuted. unde~ Rule _12, read with section 22(2) (b), for not furnishing a ~Ian of.a di~contmued mme. He was fined-..Rs. 20: in default one month's tnmple ImpriSonment. 1'he owner o! ~abu.B. K. Lahiri's, Nayadanga coal mine, was prosecuted under ~ule 1 o~ N otlfi.cat10n No. 11793-103, dated the 30th December 1908, read ~Ith sectiOn 22(2) (b), for not submitting an annual return within the pr~scribed date. He was fined Rs. 50: in default one month's simple im· priSonment. · . I_n~o:mation was I~ceived regarding the following j~gments in prosecu· tlons Inihated b;y- managers against employees for breaches of the Special Rules made under sect10n.21 of the Act. - ' A sirdar, at Messrs. Kanga and Company's .A.lkusa coal mine was ro~ secuted_ under Rul~ 4, read with section 22(3) (e), 'for absenting him'self f~om duty :WI~hout makmg. over charge to a competent person or· obtaining the p_ermiSsio,n of_ a supenor officer. He was fined Rs. 10: in default one week's rigorous 1mpr1sonment. An overman, at the Moti Ram C.oal Company's, Kurk'lnd coal mine was prosecuted under Rules 40 and 41, read with section :02 (1) (e), for not usin~ due 15 precautions in carrying out dangerous work and for not seein"'0 that the sides of the mine were kept secure. He was fined Rs. 50. A sirdar, at the Bengal Coal ~ompany-, Limited's Sodepur coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 4, read w1th sect10n 22 (3) (e), for absenting himself from duty without permission. He was fine_d Rs. 15 : in default ten days' simple imprisonment. A miner, at the Bansjora Coal Company, Limited's Bansjora coal mine, was prosecuted under Rules 2, 5 and 16, read with section 22 (:i) (e), for doing an act likely to endanger his safety, or that of another person. He was fined Rs. 15 : in default three weeks' simple imprisonment. A locomotive fireman, at the Bansjora Coal Company, Limited's Bansjora • coal mine, was prosecuted under Rule 4, read with section 22 (3) (e), for absent· ing himself from duty without permission. He was fine:i l:ts. 20 : in default fom; we~ks' simple imprisonment. A locomotive fireman, at the Bansjora Coal Company, Limited's Bansjora coal mine, was prosecuted under Rules 4 and 5, read with section 22 (3)(e), for absenting himself from duty without permission and for doing an act likely to endanger the safety of other persons. He was fined Rs. 50 : in default six ·weeks' rigorous imprisonment. The owners of the Central Tentulia coal mine were prosecuted at the instance of the Police, under section 283 of the Indian Penal Code, for obs1.ruct ing a road, known as the old Ranchi Road, by making it unsafe, -owing to mining operations and for placing fences across it. The Court gave judgment to the effect that there were two points to consider: (1) were the accused responsible for causing the obstruction, and (2) was the road in question a public highway: that the placing of a fence across a road which was dangerous w&s not in itself a culpable offence : that there were other underground workings in the vicinity, as well as those of the accused, and that there was not sufficient evidence to prove that the damage to the ro~d was caused by the underground workings of the accused : that this ooing so, there was no need to considet• whether the road in question was or was not a public highway. 'l'he case was therefore dismissed. An objection under section 15 {4) was made by the owners of Messrs. Agabeg Brothers' Jogta coal mine, to the Mining Board of Bihar and 01·issa, to a requisition made by the Inspector of Mines in India, No. 1 Circle, under section 15 (1). 'l'he matter was referred under section 15 (5) to a Committee, formed under section 10, who upheld the Inspector. A further objection was then submitted by the owners, under section 10 (6), to the Local Government, who again upheld the Committee and the Inspector. This is the first occasion, since the passing of the Act in 1901, upon which an objection has been made to the requisition of an Inspector under section 15 (1) or (2), and the first occasion, therefore, upon which a Committee has been formed under section 10. 'l;wo permits, granted to managers of small mines, were cancelled during the year, on account of mismanagement, disclosed by inspection. ADDITIONS TO THE ACT. • During the year Special Rules under secthn 2~ of the Act wer.e estahlis~ed at 15 coal mines, makmg a total of 468, and at 2 man~anese mmes, makmg a total of 37. Section V.-General Remarks. HEALTH AND SANITATION. The Asansol Board of Health held 13 meetings. There was no change in the personnel of the ul\official membeJ;s, The Comrulsory VacciD,ation 4ct 16 (Ben~al Act V of 1880) and the Bengal Vac~ination 'Amendment Act (~~ngal Act II of 1911), came into force on the 15th January a~d 27th Novemb~.l917, . ly Under these reaulations the Board" appomted twelve Re,.,1strars respec t1ve . " · t d tl B d in of vital statist~cs and these Registrars were also appom e as 1e oar vac~ . a· tors. Vaccination is now compulsory and free throughout the Asansol Mmmg Settlement. . During the year the Board issued p~ans of stan~ar~ well parapets and bathing ghats and these are now in use m all tJie collrerres of the. settlement. Seventy-five burning ghats have also been established and ar~ now muse. Reoonlations for the prevention and control of cholera m the settlement were br~ught into force during the year, and measur~s hav~ been adopted to prevent and suppress epidemic diseases. The Bo~rd ~ Samtary !nsp~ctors, assisted by its Vaccinators, deliver lectures on s~mtatron and hy~rene .m the collieries and villa"'es of the settlement three trmes a week, leaflets m the vernacular being distributed at the lectures, giving suitable directions how to avoid disease. There were 226 cases of cholera and 138 deaths, the figures fm: small-pox being 320 and 42, as compared with 671 cases of cholera and 241 deaths and 56i cases of small-pox and 90 deaths in 1916 . . The Jharia Board of Health held 16 ordinary and 4 special meetings. The Board was reconsLituted during the year. The same four otficial members were nominated by the Local Gov.ernment, the elected members beiug Messrs. N. N. Mukherji, A. J. Smith, F. J. Simpson and G. C. Webster. A draft for a new -.1\lining Settlement Act was considered and submitted to the· Local GovPrn· ment. The provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act were extended to the whole of the Mining Settleme_nt and the Chief Sanitary Offic~r was appointed as the authority under the regulations. Under such authority several new regulations were brought into force. The Board continued to publish bulletins giving information for the prevention of disease. There were 698 cases of cholera and 344 deaths .. Tlle figures for small-pox were 148 and 4, as compared with the preceding years' figures, which were, for cholera, 898 cases and 397 deaths and, for small-pox, 292 cases and 10 deaths. Outside the coalfields of Bengal and Bihar and Orissa 46 deaths from cholera were reported from the Bengal Iron and Steel Company, Limited's iron ore mines in the Singhbhum District, and 19 deaths from the ma:Qganese mines in the Bhandara District of the Central Provinces. Thirty-one deaths from plague occurred also at a manganese mine in the Chhindwara District of the Central Provinces. The rainfall in the Jharia coalfield was 72·09 inches, in the Giridih coal field it was 69·16 inches, in the Raniganj coalfield it was 71·9 inches and at the New Jharia Water Works it was 72·87 inches. These figures for 1\Hil were 57·79, 77·50, 54·ll and 72·87 inches, respectively. MINING EDUCATION. 'l'he Professor of Mining at Sibpur College has reported that at the com· mencement of the session 1916-17 there were six: students in the Senior, and fourteen in the Junior Mining Course. At the annual examination ten stu dents qualified for promotion to the Senior course, while at the Diploma exa mination five students were awarded diplomas. 1'he new session commenced with ten students in the Senior, and twenty in the Junior class. Of these there are two special scholars in the Senior class and two in the Junior. The annual mining ca:np was. pitched at Aldih. Twenty-nine regular stnd~nts were prese~t, and nm~ specral survey students, who were attending a specral course of mme surveymg and were from the colliery districts making a total of thirty-eight, which .constituted a ~e.cord a~tendan?e. S';'Xv~ys above a~d below grou~d we!e. carrie~ out and VISits of r!lspectron pard to various mmes. The semor mmrng stuuents ·later accompamed the University Engi neering students in their geological field-work. The Mi~in?' Education Adv~sory Board held four meetings during the year.. Mr. B. Whrte s place, as Charrman of the Indian Mining Association, was taken hr Mr. ~. Edwards, · 17 The lectures in the coalfields continued to be given. The syllabus was revised. The average attendance was 23·3, which is nearly as good as in the previous year. 'l'he sessional examination was held in May, the examiners being M'essrs. G. C. Leach, Inspector of Mines, and E. H. Robertson, Professor of Mining at Sibpur College. Thirty-three candidates sat for examination and 26 passed. Mr. W. J. Connolly obtained the highest marl1s. The Examiners reported that there was a distinct improvement over previous years in the answer papers. 'l'he Bengali and Hindi lectures were also delivered. · · BOARD OF EXAMIN:IllRS FOR COAL MINE MANAGER'S CERTIFICATES. The personnel of the Board consisted of the Chief Inspector of Mines in India (ex-officio) President, and Messrs. T. H. Ward and F. Owen, vice Mr. S. He$p resigned. The Board placed on record their high appreciation. of the valuable services rendered by Mr. Heslop, as a member, for a prolonged period. Five meetings were held during the year. One first class Indian Certifi· cate of Competency was granted in lieu of an English Certificate. One :first class and· one second class Certificates of Service were granted during the year. At the examination for Colliery Managers' Certificates of Competency held at Dhanbad on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Februal1Y 1917, forty-four candidates sat for first class and sixty--three Jor second class certificates. Certificates of Competency were gr11nted to nine first class and eleven second class candidates. The Examiners were Messrs. W. S. Elphinstone, J. Mackie andR. R. Simpson, Inspector of Mines, No.1 Circle (Official Examiner and Secretary). Mr. G. 0. Leach, Inspector of Mines, No. 2 Circle, was Assistant Secretary. MINING BOARDS IN BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA AND THE CENTRAL l'ROVINCES. - The Bengal Mining Board held two meetings during the year, when the -~ following subjects. were considered :- (1) Draft rules under section 20 of the :(ndian Mines Act, 1901, for pro viding adequate acquaintance on the part of mine officials with the number of persons working in mine at any given time. · -(2) Amendment of section 9 of the Indian Mines Act, 1901. (3) Proposed addition of a sub-section to section 20 (2) of the Indian Mines Act, 1901, to regulate the employment of all kinds of labour. 'l'he non-official members were Messrs. W. Graham and Glen George. The Bihar and Orissa Mining Board held one meeting during the year when the following subject was considered:- -- - (1) Draft rule under section 20 of the Indian Mines Act, 1901, for pro• . viding adequate acquaintance on the part of mine officials with the number of persons working in mine at any given time. The non-official members were Messrs. T. If. Ward and R. G. M. Bathgate. The Central Provinces Mining Board was constituted in May 1917. The Notification relating to this Board appea.rs in Appendix IV, Statement No ..6. No meetings were held by the Board during the year. MINING AND GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF INDIA. The total membersllip at the end of the year, including subscribers, was 257. In addition to the Annual Meeting, four ordinary meetings were held during the year, in which papers were read and discussed and visits paid to two mines. The field-work for the preparation of the Geological map of the Jharia coalfield will shortly be finished and the preparation of the map will then be taken in hand. The Government prize for the best paper during the year was awarded to Mr. C. A. John Hendry for his paper on" Some primary D 18 considerations in ·hydraulic stowing in mines, with a note particularly relating . to the coalfields of Bihar." The Institute medals were awarded as follows;....,... ·· (a) the gold medal to Mr. C. A. John Hendry, for his abovementioned· paper;. . · (b) the silver medal to Dr. L. L. Fermor, for his paper on "'he burning of coal seams at the outcrop " ; and (a) the bronze medal to Mr. J. H. Evans, for his paper on "Housing of labour and sanitation at mines in India." The office of the Institute has been removed to the Sibpur Civil Engi neering College, Sibpur Botanic Garden, Post Office (Howrah District). THE ASSOCIATION OF COI,LIERY MANAGERS IN INDIA. The Memb~r~hip of Association ~ncreased.during 1~17 from 1~4 to ~0. The Council has been engaged With questions relatm!S to the rmprove~ent of the housing of colliery l!lbour, th.e supply of exploSives for c?a~ gettmg, and other important questions relatmg to the management of colher1es. Two visits were paid by the Association to mines and works. LAND ACQUISITION (MINES) A?T, 1885. The number of original cases disposed of altogether at the end of 1917, stood at 308, sixteen of which were cases disposed of dllring the year. OFFICIAL DUTIES, 1917. Mr. G. F. Adams was Chie~ Inspector of Mines in India. Mr. R. R. Simpson was Inspect_or Qf Mines, No. 1 Circle. From the 1st January to 23rd February, he had charge of No. 2 Circle, in addition to his own duties. He was granted privilege leave from the lOth July to the 9th August. · Mr. G. C. Leach returned from leave and resumed charge of No. 2 Circle on the 24th February. He resigned the service on the afternoon of the 31st _ December, having been an· Inspector of Mines for over nine years. His work was always characterised by ~arked zeal, unremitting labour, and a high sense of duty. Mr. J. Coggin Brown, Assistant Superintendent, Geological Survey, India, continued to be an Inspector of Mines in Burma. Messrs. J. J. Turnbull and H. Lancaster were Junior Inspectors of Mines. · From the commencement of the year the work of the Department was added to considerably by the fact that applicat-ions for priority for the importa tion of colliery plant and machinery from the United Kingdom were referred to the ~hief Insp~ctor of Min~s by Local Gove~·nments. In nearly every case this entailed a vlSlt to the mme. Towards the end of the year a Committee entitled the Mines Equipment Priority Committee, was appointed to examin~ applications from minos throughout India, with the exception of Madras, dealing direct with the Indian Munitions Board. The Committee consists of Messrs. G. F .•\dams (President), W. Allen, tho Hon'ble Mr. Sarat Chandra Sen and T. H. Ward. The formation of this Committee did not, however, release the Department from the work of making the inquiries at the mines. 'l'hree h_undreltand thirty-three casP.s were so inquired into during the year. I have the honour to be, SIR, Y~ur most obedient Servant, G. F. ADAMS,· Ohief Inspector of Mines in India. 'PLAN -··1 AN ACCtD¢N;TRATINGILLU RE:PO . THe: BARA .I BY FALL RT ON KAR COAL AT OF . .! Co. L ROOF 5 ' TO· . .. :1 CAL£ ' ' . s. Gou NcH::::so F££T. RANGDIH MINE. I I I J lllliil Ill •••••••• ••• •••DOD DOD DOD DOD ·."l,. ~-·. 00001 oooc 10[ -r. IL \... B_EFER Pillars Goafed___ E.NCE. s...... :. PLAN B. PLAN AND SECTION ILLUSTRATING REPORT ON FATAL ACCIDENT BY FALL OF ROOF COAL AT THE NEW SURATAND COAL Co. . LTo ·s NEW SURATAND COAL MINE. ScALE I INcH= 10 FEET. BARRIER. ---BARRIER---. t 2,0 I I 16-?r------, r----- i -t - I I I 1 uil I I I I I I I : I I I I I L- - - - - _ j J I / L- - r------1 I I I I I I I I L ------1 I lo r-- - - - ~ ...------~ I I I' I I I I : I L ______l L __ _ _ _j r ------1 ;------1 I I I I ' I I I ' I I : I I I t 1 I I I • ~ l... a·-)_ _ _ __ - 4.--&- -~- - --- """' - - A T ------4-0 ------~ 0 I P I I N 10 PLAN. SECTION ON A.B. PLAN C. PLAN ILLUSTRATING REPORT ON AN ACCIDENT BY FALL OF ROOF AT SIR M. N. NANDI'S SOUTH EAST BARABONI COAL MINE. ScALE 1 INCH= 20 FEET. STOOK. SECTION ON A . B . PLAN. LITHO B Y THACitER. 3P1H1C & at. CIU..CUTTA . PLAN D. PLAN ILLUSTRATING REPORT ON AN ACCIDENT BY IRRUPTION OF WATER AT THE SHAMPUR COAL Co., LTD'S SUNDERCHACK MINE. SCALE 1 INCH= 200 FEET. OLD tINCLINJ:;. 0 0 0 0 NORTH SECTION. OLD WORKINGS. 0 REFERENCE. Old pits shown thus ______O ~· . LITHO BY THACI PLAN ILLUSTRATING REPORT ON AN EXPLOSION OF GAS AT THE HARILADIH COAL CO., LTD '5 AKHALPl)R MINE. scALE 1 INcH=too FEET LIN£ REFERENCES. Old Stoppings_ ------== New Stoppings ______Stoppings not builL------>< Brattic:e ______------ Direc:tlon of Ventilation_- -_-- - ~ DWec:tion of Force ______- L_ C/1 c :r ., > n ~ ~ -f n (/J> -t LITHO BY THACKER .tiPIHK & CO. CALCUTTA. APPENDIX I. STATISTICS OF MINES AN],) MINERALS. Table No.1. Nwnber of mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917. I NVKDBB O:J AVERAGE NUMBER OP PERSONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND AliOUT THE JIINES. . NlTHDBD O:J Kllnll8 UfSPBCTBD I :U:Ilf:IS, Dti'Bll'I'G ~KB Number YJU.. B, Bax.ow &Boon, ABovB.&BOtrli'D. of mines PBo1'r•c•. District and mineral field, under the TOT.U. OV'fP'O"'',' scope of Not Grand t.ltat Worked Number N1mber the Act. worked of I of Total below and above bymecha· Adult Adult bymecha.. Children Adult Adult Children Total ground. nieal mines h::.epec .. mal ea. females. (nuder 12), below males. females. above power. nical Inspected. tiona. ground. (underJ.2). power. ground, ------A.. -COAL. Tons I r Lakhimpur 6 4 2 ...... 291,484 1,601 208 .. . 1,809 498 214 58 77Q 2,579 I A11a.m . i Naga Hills 1 ... 1 ... R,906 98 2 .. . 100 204 26 •• 4 234 334 Sibs agar 1 ... 1 ... 915 15 3 18 l ------____!_ 1 --- 10 28 TOTAL 8 4 4 ...... 301,305 1,714 213 ... 1,927 711 241 62 1,014 2,941 ------·------· -·------,------p .. 9 1 1 '6,469 105 ...... 105 20 20 Kalat, ...... 125 r 1 ... 1 1 1 104 10 ...... 10 8 ... 8 18 I Loralai - Balnoh\sta~ 11 ... 11 9 9 4,695 66 ...... 66 13 ...... 13 79 Quetta·Piohin - '1 7 2 5 4 9 29,517 l.2G ...... 426 281 a 23 ao7 733 l Sibi·Khost . ------I------TOTAL 28 26 I 20 2 15 40,785 607 - ... 607 322 3 28 348 956. ------·---- Banimra, Raniganj 3 ... 3 1 1 5,214 27 ... 57 25 43 100 r I Bengol .i Birbhnm .. . 1 ... 1 1 2,554 12 8 ... 2) 10 ... 12 32 L Bnrdwan .. ' .. 1SR 153 3: I 167 234 4,623,803 15,189oor 8,757 117 24,063 8,994 j- 14,390 38,453 ------f---. ~ r-- TOTAL / 190 163 37! 169 '236 .4.631,571 15,231 8,i92 117 21,140 9,029 5,0951 321 14,445 38,585 I APPENDIX 1-ontd. STATISTICS OP MINES AND MINERALS-eontd. Table !~o. 1-contd. / NumheL' o:f mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917-contd. NtrHBBB 01' AVEBAGlC NUldBER OJ!' PERSONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND ABOUT THB MINES, ; llll'I'BS Ili'Bl'BOTliD DVBllfG 'I'BB Number YBAJI., AJIOVB QBOVJI'D, ~d~r~i:e 1---,----1---.----1 ovTPOT, Dlatriot and mineral field. To:r.t.~o Grand total scope of Worked Not N b N b below and abo•e the Act. b ha worked u::f er I u:f er Children Total Children Total Adult Adult Adult AduU ground. above y n~~:l • by mecha· mines lnspeo-o males. females, (under 12). g~c:ad. males. lemoles. (andcr 12}. J power. nical Inspected. ~lone. groan d. ------~---~------,,--l------·l-•-•w_"_·-l----'-"-'~--'-----1------A.-"-COAL-contd. Tons. ( {Bokaro·Ramgarh 11 '1 16 3 4 359,605 924 1,177 22 2,123 988 1,027 32 2,047 4,170 I H•zaribagh Giridih • • 9 4 6 3 3 824,007 4,9U 2,027 1 6,969 2.153 792 2 2,947 9,916 Jharia . r 5 4 1 s 8 108,70~ 331 216 20 567 215 142 24 381 948 (Jha.ria 315 158 157 '228 484 9.675,084 26,763 22,396 375 49,534 19,3EG · 8,967 1,571 29,918 79,452 MAnbbnm { - Bihar and O•·isJA , {I l Raniganj 89 12 77 72 97 739,33~ 2,704 1,749 12 4,465 3,012 1,410 123 4,545 9,010 1 1 79,627 286 146 47 479 313 46 24 383 862 l :::l::.~~::::ampnr 1 1 1· 1 I 52,8~2 278 107 385 132 17 8 157 542 Sonthal ( J ainty 3 2 1 1 1 86,771 209 234 443 342 89 22 453 896 { t Parganas. LRaniganj 4 •.. 4 2 2 5,117 32 29 62 21 I 29 2 52 114 ------11-----1·-~ -----~------1----1---- TOTAL 183 261 313 600 11,931,141 36,468 28,081 478 65,027 26,556 12,519 1,808 40,883 105,910 ------1------1------1---L.... ------···------"----- ( Chanda, Ballarpur • 3 3 3 4 95,303 632 33 .6 671 402 105 14 521 1,192 j Chhindwara, Pencb Valley 7 6 1 - 6 9 204,502 887 337 41 1,265 248 129 38 415 1,680 Central Provinces ·1 Narsi~A"hpur, Mohpani 1 1 71,693 572 247 81t 484 54 638 1,357 l Yeotmal 1 1 9 7 16 16 ------~~1----,-,--1------·------TOUL 12 10 2 9 18 371,498 2,091 617 47 2,755 1,143 296 52 1,490 4,245 North-West Fron~ier Pro• Hazara 1 · vince. ••• ' ••• ~~i~-_2_10 - _8 _ ... _ .... _8 _6 _-_··· -6--14 1 1 1 [ Jhelum 6 ' 6 ~ •.• 40,322 582 ... 23 605 22! ... 9 230 835 Panjab , ~ Mianwali 3 s ...... 2,916 26 ...... 26 ' 18 •.. ... 18 44 L Shahpnr 2 2 6,631 65 ...... 55 99 .•. •.. 99 154 --ll- --.-..- ---.-11- --•. -.- --...·--l---4-9-,8-69-l·--6-63 --- --23-~--6-86-~ ~ ------9- 347 TOTAL 1,033 ------l------r--l------~--~------1------r----1 GRAND TOTAL (coAL) FOB 11117 694· 352 342 5061 - 869 17,326,384 56,782 37,703 665 95,150 38,'105 18,163 2,276 5d,533 153,683 OP PBB.. CBDil!f'G YBAB 565 332 233 422 808 16,419,082 55,957 35,346 583 91,886 34,253 15,348 1,972 51,573 143,459 ·--·------1----1---1------1- --~---~----~----- \ DIJ'I'BB.BNCB +129 +20 +109 +74 +69 +907,302 +825 +2,357 +82 +3,264 +3,852 +2,805 +303 +6,960 +10,224 ------l·------,:----l--1---l----+------'-----l------l·--·l---- B.-MICA. \ Cwts. Bhagalpur 2 2 4 10 4 14 14. r GayA ,. 54 17 37 5,837 801 472 124 . 1,397 548 398 168 1,114 2,611 Bihar and Orisso ·1 Hazaribagh , 429 39 390 44 ...22,307 4,460 2,353 812 7,625 2,204 1,441 1,229 4,874 12,499 I MonghYT 26 3 23 939 576 223 62 866 163 60 17 240 1,106 I: L Sambalpur 1 ... 1 104 60 45 17 122 I 122 --·1---.----1---t---1------~----,---~---- TOTAL 512 59 '53 43 44 29,1111 5,907 3,102 1,015 10,024 2,915 1,899 1,4141 6,228 16,252 96 --12- ~ ~--2-~--2-l----5,-86-3-l--1-,6-8-9-l--1-,0-3-9 --l-38- --2-,8-66- ---~----- ·{ Nello"' 406 947 120 3,7391' ModrN 11731 Salem 3.,, s ...... 126 83 ...... 33 52 55 13 120 153 1 TOTAL 99 ----; 871 2 --2-~---5-,9-89--!·-1,-72-2-;--1,-039-ll--1-3-8 2,899 ~ ~~~ 'i 9931 3,892 • Includes labour figures for eamarskite (see page 31). APPENDIX 1-contd. STA'l'ISTICS OF MINES AND MINERALS-conttl. Table No. l-contti. Number of mines regulB.ted by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of mineraJs, during the year 1917-contd. Dl•trlet aod miaeral8eld. B.-MICA-contd. Cwto. / 238 43 16 l!ajputana ·{ Ajmer·Merwara 25 24 3 3 71)7 198 29 11 74 133 371 9 8 2 10 4 4 14 Beawar • 1 1 ...... / ... ---~ ------1------1------t,Q 26 25 3 716 206 31 11 • 248 78 43 16 137 385 "" -----.,-,------.-----1------~1-~------,------1---_:_- GRAND TOTAL (MICA) l'OB 1917 637 72 565 48 49 35,896 7,835 4,172 1,164 13,171 3,451 2,344 1,563 7,358 20,529 OF PRECED ING YBAB 452 60 392 75 76 35,978 6,367 3,674 1,027 11,068 2,731 1,604 1,088 5,423 16,491 --- --·-· ------1----- +185 +12 +173 -27 -27 -82 +1,468 +498 +137 +2,103 +720 -1;740 +475 +1,935 +4,038 --,.------+------1---_j___ .!....-----1·------' . C.-MANGANESE. Tons. Bombay • . Panch Mahals 2 ... 2 ...... 26,690 449 ___,._162 654 179 34 11 224 878 . ------·------rBalaghat 24 ... 24 16 16 231,670 2,369 2,217 145 ' 4,'/31 774 542 98 1,414 6,145 Bhandara ' 4 ... 4 6 7 36,091 185 216 22 423 '83 32 2 117 540 3 2 2 3 65,685 • 709 21 1,641 228 84 16 428 Central Provinces ~ Chhindwara ·1 911 2,069 1 ... 1 ...... 6 7 ... 13 ...... 13 ..l r~.-: . 21 1 20 "16 16 1M,l!34 1,644 1,525 12 3,181 530 358 61 949 4,130 ------ToTAL ·\-5s . 2 IH ' 40 . ·42 456,680 4,913 ,,876 200 9,989 1,715 1,016 177 2,908 12,897 I Madras Vizagapatam ., 3 ... 3 ...... 1,682 94 62 71 163 26 12 2 40 20 ------GRAND TOTAL (MA.NGA.NEsE) FOB 1917 58 2 56 40 42 497,052 5,456 5,100 250 10,806 1,920 1,062 190 3,172 13,97!!_ .. .. OJ' PBECBD• ING YBJ.B 62 4 58 44 47 568,032 6,669 5,255 284 12,208 1,993 1,138 199 3,3~0 15,538 ------' ------DIFI!'EBBNCB ·I -4 -2 -2 -4 -6 -70,980 -1,213 -159. -34 -1,402 -73 -76 -9 -158 -1,560 j- ' ------ D.-LIMESTONE. Tolls. I Central Provinces Jabalpur, Katni 32 1 S1 ... , I ... 82,340 4~8 807 34 1,329 20£ ~25 35 ·468 I 1,797• ------1------1---- ToTAL OF PRECED· ING YBA.B 35 5 30 --:J 16 45,290 428 697 26 1,161 248 196 34 4'18 1,629 I --- ' r------~ ----· 1JIF11BBBNCB •. -3 -4 + 1 -141 -15 +37,050 +60 +110 +8 +178 --40 +29 + 1 -10 +168 ---1------ E.-SALT. - I - Tono. - Tbelum 2 I 1 ...... 131,438 460 31H 46 -857 69 ...... 69 ' 916 Panjab I 1 11,942 71 1~ 89 ... 89. ·i Mianwali ...... l ... I ...... Ll Shahpur . . 1 ... 1 ...... 9,162 48 36 8 92 ...... 92' . I --- ' ------r------:---- GRAND TOTAL (SnT) FOB ' 1917 4 1 3 ...... 152,542 579 1,038 j9 ...... 59 1,097 .. .. 01!' PRBCBD• IliG YB&B 4 ... 4 3 7 160,357 425 296 55 775 52 ... 52 827 ... H "' -----.------t--- DIPPBBBNCB ... + 11 -1 -3 -7 -7,815 +154 +92 +17 +263 ·t-7 ...... +7 +270 • Includes labour figures for fullers-ear Table No. 1-conta. Number of mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917-contd. NUKDBB 0:1' AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND ABOUT THB JUNES. NVMBBB 0"1' Klli'RI I'NSPBCTBD JUlfBI. DUBilfG THB BBLOW BBOtnrD. Nnmber IB£B. ABOVB &JlOtnm. Pao;vmcm. District and mineral ~fd~~:::l----,----1----,---1 field. To7.i.r. GUUVl'o Grand total scope of Worked Not N be N b Ad nit Adult Children Totn.l below and &boTe the Aci. by o k d by u:r r I u~ er below Adult Adult Children Totnl mu.les. females. (under 12 J. above ground. mecbanl- ~e'cb~nf- mln68 inspeo· ground, males. Ifemales. (under 12). cal power. calJtOwer. Inspected. tiona. groand. ------~----,------1------1---1---'------'-----1------1----- F.-GEMS. Mogok Biuma • I11----Mogok 506 1,241) 506 1,245 543 1,202 DIPI'BBBNOB +SO ... •.• +80 :._87 -97 - +43 ------t---'---1------1--·----- ___ ,___ _ G.-SLATE. Tons. ' Bihar and Orisaa Mongbyr 4. ... 1,900 65 30 18 113 38 ...... 38 11>1 ------( Gurdaspur 1 ... 1 75 11 ...... 11 ...... 11 Panjab .{ Gurgaon 4 ... - 4. 4 4 1,314 92 ... 33 125 15 ... 3 143 l Kangra 5 ... 5 5,442 169 ...... 169 48 61 28 ·~~~ 1- 3U6 10 10 4 4 6,R31 272 ... sa soo ) 63 611 - 31 165 460 \ -----1------,-__ GRAND TOTAL (SL.I.TB) POB 13 13 4 4 8,731 337 30 51 418 101 61 31 193 611 1917. - 01 PBBCBD• 1~ 14 ...... 9,344 424 42 28 494 135 77 39 251 745 lNG YJIA.B· 1------'---1------~-- DIFPTIBBNCB -1 ·-1 +4 +4 -61!\ -87 -12 +23 -76 -34 -16 -8 ~, -134 ------1------~ H.-GOLD. Ozs, Bihar and Olissa . • ~.462 Singhbhum · l ' 1 1 37 21 ... 58 42 18 1 61 119 ~-----J------1------r------1:----- :lladrao . .Anantapur _. 3 3 ~ 5 '20,529 852 ...... 852 698 124 94 916 1,76R• ------~------~------GRAND 'I'OTAL (GoLD} POB 4 8 1 4 6 22,991 889 21 ... 910 740 142 95 977 1,887 1917. 01' PBBOBD 4 8 1 3 7 23,235 961 18 3 989 768 166 148 1,072 2,054 ING TBAB. 1------1------·------I LIPPI!BB!fCB -~,~~ -2•14 -72 +3 -3 -?2 -16 -2-1 -53 I -96 -167 ------1------I.-IRON ORE. Tons. Rajputana Ajmer·Merwata ... 1 7 ...... 7 I ...... 1 8 ------1------~·1------( Puri , • t ...... I ... 17 5 22 22 B!har and Orissa ···, ·t Singhbhum • 1 1 . ... 178,302 649 432 104 1,086 332 159 .. . 491 1,576 r--- f--- ToTAL 2 1 1 ... 178,302 649 432 104 1,085 349 159 5 618 1,598 r--- ~ ------' ------GRAND TOTAL (IBoN} POB --8----1-· ~ ...... 178,303 556 432 104 1,092 850 159 6 514 1,606 1917. --r::: , ,. OJ' PBBCB~ 3 - 1 ... 142,606 456 809 85 800 266 101 8 866 1,165 lHG YBAB. .. 1------1·-~------r------DnFBBBlfCB ., -1 +1 I~ +85,697 +100 1 +123 +69 +292 +94 +58 -3 +149 +441 • Includes labour figurea for Madraa, Anantapur, ,iiTer, page~SL t Mute not worked during the year, labour employed m estract~ng red onde from old stock of ore. APPENDIX 1-contd. STATISTICS OF MINES AND MINERALS-contd. ' Table No. 1-contd. Number of mines reg~ted by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers-and output of minerals, during th~ year l917-contd. NuHBBB OJ' AVERAGE NUMDER OP PERSONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND ABOUT THE MINES. Nu.,fa •• o• KilfBB IKSPECTBD )1\lfBS, DIIBllfG 'rBB Number YBU, of mines District and mineral under the 1-----.,~----1 TO'tA.L OU'tl'V'I', Grand total field. 1----:---- below and :b,~Pl~~ Worked Not Number Number Totnl above Adult 1 Adult Total by worked by of of Adnlt Adult Children below Children ground. females. (under 12). mal ea. females. (under 12). above meobani· meohani· mines lnspeo- males. gronnd. ground. cal power. cal power. lnapeoted. tiona, -----:_.;-----1------J------1----'------'------1------'---+----- J.-WOLFRAM. I Cwts. , Bihar and Orissa Singbbhum • 1 200 19 18 •.. 37 ..• ••• •.. .•• 37 ... f-- ... _·_··-1------1-~--t--~-- ( Mergui 2 2 3,659 169 169 124 20 12 156 325 I I Burma • • • <( Tavoy 132 4 128 38 97 73,494 4,494. 25 4,523 4,248 157 68 4,473 8,996 I l Thaton 12 12 2,059 414 45 573 228 144 73 445 1,018 1------J-----If----J-----J·---J-----'---1----J---+---I--- --:------I--·-----T-o_u_L--I--1~4,6-l---4 __1_42_ __3_8-;-1 __9_r.,_ __7_9_,1-12- '"''_:__:_I__:_ ,., _"'__"'_ ''" l--1-o-,3-39- 1 GRAND TOTAL (Wo~PBUl) 147 4 143 97 79,312 5,096 157 49 5,302 4,600 321 153 5,074 10,376 FOB 1917, 381 128 59,094 4,302 109 27 4,438 3,889 310 23 4,222 8,660 ,__ '_' ___" __O_!'_P_B_B_C_B_D_·J---9-0_,_· ING YEA.B. __ 3_ 87 1 60 1 ---3-ll-----J----J---J------1---'--- Dll'FZBBNCE +571 +1 +56 -22 +20,218 +794 +48 +22 +864 +711 +11 +130 +852 +1.716 I K.-MAGNESITE .. Tons. 1,262 33 20 53 1,315· Madra~ , Salem 2 18,192 376 376 510 ... .I 21 ' ------~ ------1 TOTAL Olr PBBCBDIJrG YB.t.B , -2 2 17,540 382 462 479 1,323 77 11 29 11~ 1,440· o---- to / 1-1-~ ... -. "-1-1------64 DIFFBBBl'ICB 1 ...... +652 -6 -86 +31 -61 -44 -1,1 -9 -125 ------1--'------1- ---1-----'---'------··~- --1------._-1---- L.-OHROMITE. I I C"'ls. 59 35 35 9i Dal uchistan Zhob 26 261 313,180 59 i ------·1------.,...----1----'--t-----jl---1----1------1--~-.-l--1--i---- Bihar ar.d Orissa Singhbhom • 4 ... 4 1 ...... , 32,149 241 273 40 6S4 40 I 12 3 55 609 I I1 j .1---1----1------1---1--i·--..,---- GRAND TOTAL (CIIBOJIITB).--: -.-..---: ---4- 90 ~--4- 345,329 300 273 40 613 75 12 3 703 1 FOB 1917. . 481 179 208 29 416 4811 ... 897 TOTAL OP PBECRDJNQ YBAR 11 2 9 ...... 100,080 .. 1------I +~1 -194 .. DIPPIIBBNCB +4 +4 245,2491 +121 +651 +19 -2 +21 --=- _.. t-=--:-= APPENDIX 1--contd. STATISTICS OF MINES AND 1\UNERALS-contd. Table No. 1-contd. ( Number, of mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917-contd. NUKB1:2 01' AVERAGE NUMBER O:r PERSONS EMPLOYED DAlLY IN AND ABOUT THE 14INEB, Jll'JfBB 11f8PBOTBD Dti'BilU~ TBll Number Y:IA.JI, "' A.BOVJI 8ll0111Uh District and mineral ofminea l field. under tbe 1------,.------1------,------1 TOUL OUTP17T, ----,------,------,------1------,------,--~-,------Gb~~!!~M acopethe A.ot, of Worked Not Number I Number by worked by of , of Adult Adtilt Children ~::;, Adult Adult Children \ T~tal ~!~~d mechllni· mecba.ni· mines' in8p8e-o malea. femalea. (under 12), groFd. males.. female•. (under 12). .::o:~d. cal power. cal power. Inspected, tions. ' -----·--1------·1------____L__--'---~-1------·------M.-COPPER ORE. \ Tons. Bihar. and Orissa Singhbhum 2 --1- ---1-~--5-l---2-0-,1-08-l---~--72 _·_··___ ···_ --4-72---8-10- _:_ --55---1-,2-CO-I---1-,6-72- , ToTAL OJI' PBBCBDING YBAB 6 1 6 2,671 345 345 660 198 42 900 ' 1,245 1------1------1----1------1:------·------1--- DtFFEIIBBOB -4 +1 +5 +17.437 +127 +127 . +150 +137 +13 +300 +&27 1------1------1----f----'------1---:--1------1----- N.-BAUXITE. • , ....., Cwts. I 4 ..:~~·n-t-raJ__ P_r-OV_i_n_eO-B-----I-:-:-:-:-~-~-F-~-~~-B-OE_D_IN __ G_Y_B_A_II_l ____ :- ~ : ---·-··_1___ ... _1 ------:-:-~-0-i'--'--:- ----:-:---::- --:-~--·-:-· -.-..- - --.-..-\!- -_---~-:-. ------~-9- / I------1------I-----I------J-I---I---- DIFFBBBNCB -1 -1 -700 \ +3 -1 -1 +4 +7 0.-CLAY. Tons. ! Manbhum 2 ... 2 ...... 18,272 60 65 10 125 '68 49 ... 107 232' Bihar and Oriosa .'{ l Palamau ]. ... '.1. ... ,. . 2,371 11 9 6 26 12 8 5 25 61! !------"--'-·1------___ ,___ _ 283" ------I------T-oT_.._L--'--Ir----3 __...___ a_ ...... 20,643 16 is1 57 5 --1-32______~~ ~ 1 288 c_._,n_tra_I_P_r /------1_...:._------+~--,1----1---1------Dx:r:rBRBl'I'O. +3 ... +3 ...... +1,883 +7 +8 +2 +17 -322 -892 -97 -1,311 -1,294- APPENDIX 1-contd. STATISTICS OF MINES AND MINERALS-contd. Table No. 1-contd. Number of mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917-contd. NVHliBB 01' AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND ABOUr THE MINES, NVJCBBB 01' JQlfBS llfSI'BO'I'BD KXB'BS, DVB.llfG 'lBB Number _ 'J:EU, BBI.OW GJl017lO>. AllOVB GBOVI!l'D, District and mineral of miou 6-eld, nndert},e I Grand total I('Ope of TOTAL OVTR'VT. below nnd the Act. I I I Total above above ground. ~:l:~- w,:!:t~! I N~E::r :::::: !!~~. t~:fets. (~:~~:i~). J~~~ ,!!~~. fe~:o~. (~~~~r~~). groand. r.al power. cal poweT, Inspected. I tioos. -_------~~-----.------~:--~----L---~~----R~.--s-T-E~A-T-IT-E-.--~----!I 'I - , . 110 Central Provinces' 'I Jabalpur 6 ... 5 1 ___'1-! I cw;;;m 79 95 ... 'r4 53 18 1- ___~, --- Madras Kurnooi 1 1 .,, 207 2 6 ,. . 8 / 6 6 ... 11 19 2 ------2------...-)' ---1-,0-9-8-l---9 --...--.- ..---9- ---1 r.---; --; 6 15 Rajpntana Ajmer Merwara ____, ______------f------ GRAND TOTAL (sTBATITB) 8 ... 8 1 1 34,082 90 101 191 45 61 21 127 d18 FOB 1917 , PRBCBD~ 6 1 1 18,044 111 298 OF 6 ... 94 68 __5_!~ 54 4,5 12 ING YBA..~: ------DJPIIBRENCB +2 ... +2 ...... +16,038 -4 +13 -5 +4 -9 +16 +16 +20 --- I ----~------1·---- B.-FULLERS' EARTH. Tons. Central Provine•• Jabalpur ~~ ... 334• ...... ------·::~:~:"~T:~:~8~o:~N~.:~:~R~CB~D~I~~~G~Y~B~A~R~~~-~~--::·-:-_- :: ~~ ~: --_-:-l-----1-:7-6 :-ll~ ::: :: I ::: I :: :: --:-·:- ~~~:.~·:~~-1----.-··_·-- • Wcr.J from a Umelltone nnne m Jabal pur. T.-SILVER. Madras I Oz. Annntapur • ~~ .. • 1,28!• '"~ ., n~oo~• • ..: : t :. :. . ... ~~~~~~-I-----_-_-----_1.~3--6-2_ ---fl--- -_-- -_-_ --~-~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ _·__ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ------l-,----- DxPPBBBNOB ·j ...' .;. -81 --1----.l------U.-sAMARSKITE. Cwta. Madras _N_•_llo_r_• ______• ___ ,!__ . ---1-----1-----l. ___ -----67_t_,______·_··_' ______1 1 ToTAL 011 PBBCBDING Yun ·I I 1------""""7/---:---1------DIP:PBRBN'CB ------1·---- -t 67 .. l ------·------~-1---r---,---J-----'----'------J·------_.:__1---- V .-GRAl'HITE. Rsjpntana Ajmer.. Met~ara Cwts. 25 25 8 _17 4 29 ------,-_- ToTAL OF PBBCBDING YBAII : --:-·.:- ---:- 21,::: 118 19 4 · •:• --:-::-~--:-·.:-1 1~7 11 is 152 ~CB---.---.----: -:-,_____:____ +2 --.-.. -~-·-..-.-~----20-,-,18-1-ll----93- --~-1-9 ·--- -.-1-12-----3- __+_1_3_ ----4.-- ~ -98 I - --.1.·--..L...-----j------W.-YELLOW OCHRE Central Pl'ovinces • Chanda 'l'on. ------r------1------·___1 _ 403 s ...... sJ 8 - 12 ... • 20 28 TOTAL OJI 1-BBCBDING YB.&.B ---1-----1------1---- -----1---1-----1------~ ------1---- DtPPBRBNCB + 1 + 1 +403 + 8 .. , +8 + 8 +12 +20 ------l------'------:--~1·----l----'-----'--~--l------+28 X.-MOLYBDENITE.. Burma • Tavoy. · Cwts . __ ------,1------1----.----... ·1· ...... _1_.-- ~n ~ -·-1-----1------TOT.l.l. OF PBBCBDING YBAB 2 2 8 10 10 6 5 15 DIFPBRBNOB ·I~--~~------+19 -10 1 ... ----=~~r·-=-~._ 5 - -16 l Won from a wolfrnm mine in Tavoy. t Won from a mica mine in N ellore. • Won from Anantapur gold mines. APPEND.IX 1-cont•l. STA'fiSTICS OF MINES AND MINERALS-concld. Table No. 1-concld. ·Number of mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, number of workers and output of minerals, during the year 1917-conclcl. NvvBBB oJ' AVEBAGB NUMBER 0~ PEBBONS EMPLOYED DAILY IN AND ABODT THE JUNES. NuKBBB ol' JIIlfBS IlfBPB01'BD m•:sa. DVIIllfG 'tBK INumber YBJ.B, BBLOW GBOtJJrD, ABova aaovn. of mini!B hoVJ•CI•· District and mineral under the TOTJ.L O'O'I'PI:I'l'o Grand total fl.eld. scope of below and t.heAct, Worked Not Number Numbor '. Total Adult :x'otal above by worked by of I of Adult Adult Children below Adult C~lldren I males. females. (under 12). males. female•. (nndor 1:1),' above gtOUlld. meohanl• mochani- mines lnepee• ground, ground. oal power. cal power. inspected. tiona. . 1------I Y.-l;IISMUTH ORE. I Cwts.• < Burma . Tavoy ' ...... 5 _... I_... 1----"'- ...... I ...... ___::.:..__ ... ToTA..L 0:8' PB BCBDIJ1'G YBA.B ...... ------... ------... ·-··\ ... DIFFBBBNCB ...... + 5 1---.:.:.:._ _._.. _ ... ------~ - Tona. j , ~, . """'.,:.:~513,505 } I GRAND TOTAL {ALL 1,663 442 1,221 655 Corats. 80,295 49,773 2,974 133,042 51,377 22,997 4,465 78,839 5111,881 MINBULS) 1917. ,L~O~ l98,lo!OO Tror ounces. I ------l 24,272 ------. Tons. ll I, 17.401,220 Cwta. I I 251,429 ' f Carats. I GRAND TOTAL oP PBEOBI>- 1,283 416 887 630 1,097l 209.724 77,990 li8, 704 2,595 127,289 46,780 20,15L 3,{199 70,630 197,91& ING YBA.Jl.. Troy ounces. I 24,597 ------T~~.- 1------.. r +938.565 , I +262,076 DIPPII:RENOB +380 +26 +35i +~5 Corots. 1 +2,ao51 +2,069 +379 +5,753 +4,597 +2,846 +13,962 -111 -11,5241 .... J.... Troy ounces., -J-325 • M1neral won from a wolfram muae 1n Tavoy. APPENDIX I.-contd. Table 2. Analyses of figures relating to output of coal. Co.u. Dlii.IVlUlBD RAIBilfGII, TotAL, DBBPA.TCJIBB, COLLIBB'!' COKB17lll'TIOK. Cr.OSilf& ITOOEI, COJ:B VADE, 1~GBTOOEB, !1'0 COKING, Paon•oa. Dlstrlot and mineral field, ' I Steam, Slack. Steam. Slack. Steam, II Slack. Ste:lm, Slack, Steam. Slack. Steam. Slack, Hard coke,):~::. I ~~ ------1- I Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons .. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. rLakhimpur 490 ... 291,484 ... 291,974 .. . 288,796 ... 2,045 ... 455 ... 6\'8 ... 151 .. . Assam .~ Nago Billl 6,785 ... 8,906 ... 15,691 ... 9,92S .. . so ...... 5,738 ...... I l Sibsagar ; ...... 915 .. . 915 ... 885 ... 10 ...... 2V ...... I I ------f------r--- TO'r.At. 7,275 ... SOO,S90 915 S0\',665 916 298,719 885 2,075 10 455 ... 6,416 20 151 .. . ------ Kolot. 27 46 1,985 4,484 2,01~ 4,530 1,972 4,366 ...... 40 164 ...... f Loralai ...... 104 ... 104 ... 89 ...... 15 ...... Boluchiatan ·-! I Quetta-Pisbin 287 839 464 4,231 751 5,070 441 4,218 ...... SlO 852 ...... l Sibi·Khoat 69 S98 7,686 21,831 7,755 22,229 7,505 17,062 55 4,401 ...... 195 766 ...... / ------ TOTAl> ; 388 1,28S 10,239 30,546 10,622 S1,829 10,007 25,646 55 4,401 ...... • 560 1,782 ...... ~ f----- ( Bankura· Raniganj ... 659 4,394 820 4,394 1,479 4,295 12 107 sse ...... 2 1,087 ...... I ' Beug~~l . Birbbum ...... 2,055 499 2.055 499 2,055 75 ... 424 ...... 'l Burd"'&D. .. 62,900 SS,108 S,747,529 876,274 3,800,4291 959,382 S,581,735 417,587 98,487 509,301 68,827 12,7SO 51,381 19,763 4,361 46,171 .. --- ToT.u. -::1 83,767 3,753,978 877,593 3,806,8781 961,360 3,588,075 417,674 98,594 610,105 68,827 12,730 51,393 20,850 4,361 46,171 Table 2--coi'IClti. LlMlgaea. of figwes relating to output of coal-conoid. B.U8Ili'GI, TOT.U.. CoLLlBBT OOli'IUKHiolf. CO.A.L DBLlVBJIBD CLOBI1f8 BTQOJtl, TO OOXllf&, Dlslrlct aD.4 mi.aeralfteld. Steam, SJao.t. Steam. BJmek. Steam. Slack. Steam. Slack. Steam. I Slack. Steam. Slack. Steam, Slack. larcl coke, Soft cob. ------1------~---~----:-----1----1-- ---11----1-----1----1---~, ---1- -.-.-1-- Tons. Tons. Tons. 'l'ons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tous. Tons. Tons. Tons. Ton11. Tone. Tons. Ton1. (Bokaro Bamgarh 390 1,258 266,409 93,196 266,799 94,454 259,865 73,536 265 6,744 229 7,438 . 6,440 6,736 •• , .. 5,007 ( Hazoribagh 1Giridih 8,097 12,079 621,575 202,432 624,672 214,511 620,325 98,966 50 54,976 55,498 . ·'4,297 5,071 42,509 ' . ' LJharia 5,518 .4,U2 .90,333 18,371 95,851 22,913 85,047 13,999 1,741 7,523 243. · • ·; 19 • .e,S19 1,373 12 162 288,066 186,255 '7,936,745 1,738,339 8,224,811 1,924,594 7,542,261 873,939 261,786 701,981 187,15& 245,807 282,fl34 103,097 142,761 102,115 Manbhum {Jhari• Raniganj 81,067 10,259 611,4!7 127,917 64~,484 138,176 457,372 58,0)!1 38,498 63,250" 103,360 7,683 :. '43,254 81 71,665 Bibar and Orissa J 158 518 68,089 11,538 68,247 12,051 67,010 4,698 6,985 1,237 518 ·~L~ :::;~~.:::!ampur !9 37,815 15,077 87,834 15,077 35,972 2,748 1,861 12,328 2 197 2,271 82,942 3,829 83,139 6,100 77,508 56 4,418 5,852 1,212 193 Santal·Par· {Jainty • . ganas. Baniganj , 5 75 4,387 ';SO 4,392 805 3,968 215 135 855 295 234 ------!------1----l------1------1·---1------TOTAL 328,517 217,252 9,719,712 2,211,429 10,048,229 2,428,681 9,149,323 1,126,!78 308,704 859,744 290,982 1316,445 298,188 127,:14.6 185,363 178,949 ---1----1------Chanda t5 312 70,968 :!4,835 71,063 24,647 70,010 9,662 758 13,453 57! 295 961 380 .I Chhindwara 467 860 167,404 87,098 167,871 37,958 167,117 21,882 412 15,80G 342 776 Central Provincra I N arsinghpnr 7l6 69 62,111 9,5!12 62,827 9,651 47,497 801 12,587 6,596 30 82 2,713 2,172 74 l Yeotm•l "--.:·... _- ---!!!'"--!--""'--'- 71,015 301,761 284,624 81,845 i3.757 35,849 ... so 653 TOTAL 1,278 1,241 300,483 72,256 ~~~ I . ------l------l------·------l------~------1------Nortb-Weot Fronti,er Hazara 215 215 215 ... I ... Province. r. Jhe1um 8 2,062 5,251 35,071 5,259 37,133 4,859 31,237 400 1,591 ----r-----:,--... 4,3,05 ~· .. . Pan jab -~ 'Mianwali 412 572 2,344 572 2,756 572 2,606 ...... 150 ...... I l Shahpur S98 682 5,949 682 682 6,Q43 ... 225 ...... 579 ... i .. . ------:-----1----11-----1----l----h---~ ------____! __ _ TOTAL • 8 3,3721 6,5os 43,364 6,513 46,736 6,na s9,ss6 40o 1,816 s,o34 ... 1 • ... ' ·. GRAND TOTAL 1917 • 390,361 306,915 -1-4,-u-91-,-30-7-l 3,235;077 I--14,_48_1-,6-G-8-I-3-,-54-1-,99-.-21--;:s,336,861 ·;,641!,329 .. 42J,585 ~~360,~94 s2o,828 359,897 158,941 p9o,a29 i 225,120 35 APPENDIX 1-cont Table No.3. Number of mines opened and closed during the year ending 31st December 1917. · Num.Mr ofmtnee NIUilboTofmlnN Province. Dlatrtct. , opened • cloeed. ·V . ::: A,-'-COAL. .. Lakhimpur 1 ... AES.1:U { Sibsagar . - 1 ... ToTAL 2 ... BALUCHISTAN Sibi·Khost - 3 ... Ban\ura • 1 ... 13BNGAL -{ Burdwan-Raniganj 24 6 '· TOTAL 25 6 rBokaro-Ramgarh • 13 3 < Hazatibagh • LGiridih 2 1 I~ Bmu J.ND 0Rrsu . . {I (Jharia 73 8 Manbhum -~ . l LRaniganj 30 s Sonthal Parganas, Raniganj . 2 ... . TOTAL 120 16 Chanda • 1 ... t: i1N1'RAL PROVINCES ·{ (;bbindwara 1 ... ToTAL 2 ' ... ToTAL (CoAL) 152 20 B.-MICA. r Gaya • 21 6 J Hazatibagh . 157 88 BIHAR ANB ORIBU . l Monghyr 23 2 Sambalpur 1 ... -. TO'I'Af· 202 95 { Nellore 23 15 .MADB.U . '; Salem :I 2 ... TO'l.'AL -I 25 15 36 APPENDIX 1-oont Table No. 3-cont Province. District, Number ofmin63 Number of mine• I opened. eloted~ B-lliCA-cont C.-MANGANESE. J Balagbal 3 3 Chhindwara 1 ... CBN~BAL PBOVINCBB . j Jabalpur - ... 1 l Nagpur ... I ' 'l'otAL MANGA.NBSll 4 I 8 D.-YELLow· OCHRE. I CENTRAL PIIOVINCBB . Chanda 1 ...... E.-LIMESTONE• .C•NTR.lL PBOVINCBB . .. Jabalpur ·• 9 u . - -- F.-IRON ORE. BIIU.II .lliD 0BI8S.I. Singbhum 1 ... RUPUT.lN.l . Ajmer Merwara 1 ... TOTAL IRoN 2 ... -- - G.-WOLFRAM. BIBAB AND OIIIBS.l Singhbhum . ... 1 ,. Mergui 1 ... :0l'DII.l Tavoy J 63 29 LThatou . 2 I 2 I 1'0T.lL BUBII.l 66 I 31 I ToTAL (WoLPBA>I) 66 I 32 37 APPENDIX 1-contd, ' Table No, 3-concld. Number of mines opened and closed during the year podiu'g 31st December 1917-concld. ' Province, Di!ltrlot. Number of mine. Nnmber of mhltll opened, cloaed. H.-CHROMITE. BALUCHISTAN .. Zhob 3 - ... -- I - ., I.--COPPER. . lliBAB AND 0BIBBA Singhbhum ·- 1 J.-CLAY. JliBAB AND 0RIBBA • Manbhum 1 ... .DBLBI Delhi 1 ... ----- TOTAL (CLAY) 2 ... ---- K.-GALENA. .CBNTRAL PBOVINOBB Drug 1 1 L.-TIN. - 1 2 { Mergui . .l!URM& 2 ... Tavoy ...... ToTAL (TIN) 3 2 llf.-STEATITE. ·CRNTBJ.L PBOVINCBB . Jabalpur ... s - R.uPUTANA Ajmer· Merwa.ra . 2 ... I ToTAL (SruTIU) 2 s N.-G.RAPHITE. RAJFUTANA Ajmer-Merwlll'a s l GRAND TOTAL (ALL JUIIBo) ., 483 196 39 APPENDIX J-conold. Table No.4. The following 'table shows the fluctuations in the output of the principal .. ' minerals raised irom mines classed under the Indian Mines Act, 1901. The other minerals raised ar~ gems, slate, iron ore, magnesite, chromite, tin, steatite~ clay, galena, bauxite, :fuller's earth, silver, graphite, molybdenite, yellow ochre, bismuth and samarskite. YaA».. 6oal. Maugoneso. Mi.ca. JJ.meatone.. Salt. Wolfrnm. Gold. Copper are I --- I 1-·---- To a. 'J.lona. Cwts. Tons. Tons. Cwts. Troy ozs. Tons. " .1908 12,149,020 494,942 46,208 101,569 93,779 ... 7,242 10· 1909 ll,21M,~27 - 357,205 32,011 56,502 126,987 144 6,616 7 1910 n,sM-,716 468,669 21,E75 81,25ll .119,867 18 3,269 864.· 1911 12,0-18,726 441,426 31,686 92,602 124,603 8,39·1 8,277 2,079 1912 14,044,368 423,464 41.660 91,784 131,233 ll5,4Cl 7,269 8,984· 1913 15,486,~18 687,391 43,650 71,259 138,540 27,520 11,019 3,639 1914 15,727,631 555,672 38,189 146,601r 1-135,518 31,526 19,873 4.,400 1915 16,352,480 378,172 24,063 64.,179 144,770 89,432 24,320 8,010· 1916 16,419,082 56R,032 35,978 45,290 160,3571 59,094 25,235 2,671 1917 17,~26,384 497,052 35,896 82,840 152,54·2 79,312 22,991 20,1('8- Table No.5. The following table shows the amount of coal raised," the average number of persons working daily and the death-rates during the years 1908 to 1917 in respect of coal mines under the Indian Mines Act, 1901 :- Average nufnber Number of . 1 Yau. AmonDt of 0 deaths bel(lw and Per 1,000 Pet<• coal raised. or la~l; bc'i:~r!!dg above groo.nd. Per l,COO,OOO aonaworlting above ground. ton11 raised. dail1 below aud above , " grollDd. 1908 ,;,,.,.., \ 120,107 W4 13"49 1•36 1909 . 11,294,227 109,291 119 10•58 1•0S - 1910 11,387,716 105,295 160 14"05 1"52 1911 ·I 12,048,726 106,598 148 12"28 1•38- in2 14,044,368 121,892 157 11'17 1'29- 1913 . 15,486,818 138,042 185 11•95 1•39 1914 1o,727,631 ~37,851 145 9•22 1•05· 1915 16,352,480 145,537 166 10·15 1•14 J 191& . 16,419,082 ,~,oo I 169 ,~.I 1·1s 1917 .. :I 17,226,384 I5a,osa 163 9'41 1·06 APPENDIX II. ACCIDENTS IN MINES. Table No. I. List of Fatal Accidents in mines regulated by the Indian Mines A,ct, 1901, during the year 1917. I erial Name, II&J:, age and Jlo, Dt.te and hour of aacldent. Name aod aJtuation of mine. Name of mineral Name of owner. occnpatinn wrought. Cause of accident and nmarb, I of pen:~Jn killed, l EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP-(1 deatk). 1 30th March, Chowrasi mine, Equitable Coal Co., Ld. Soam Manjbi, (m.)'20, Coal . Deceased entered hisworking plaoe with a naked light and ignited an acoumu· 7·30 ...... ·1 I Dishorgarh P. 0., Miner. lation of gaa. He was severely burned about the body, and died four Bihar & Orissa. days later. Inspection and inquiry made. FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-( dsat!.s). (a) Falls of roof-(61 deat~s.) 3rd January, Chinehuria mine, Baraboni Coal Conct'rn, I Jina Manjhi, (m.), 24, Whilst a miner was cutting coal in a e:allery, 6 feet high, a mass of .shale, mea· 7 .l.H. Asausol P. 0., Ld. Ooal·carrier. suring S'x3' 6'xl'3'thick, fell from between smooth jointo ir, tho roof. Bengal. I Deceased, who was lifting a loaded basket at the time, was struck down and killed instantaneously. Inspection and inquiry made. s 12th February, Ghugus mine, Sir Kasturchand Daga and Gugillam;Jl.amaya,(m.), 30, Coal • Decea!!ed with two othe~ miners was erecting a pair of timbe1·o at the face of an 11 P.JI. Ballarpur P. 0., the Hon'blo Mr. M. B. Mitur. inclined drift. Whilst so doin~, a mass of roof coal, measuring ll'xs• to 9• Central Provinoes. Dada bhoy. I x 3', fell. Deceased was inatantly killed, and the others repeived oerious injuries. Inspection and inquiry made. 19th February, Gamrali mine, Ishardas Kapur • • -MO!ia. Azim (m.), 14, Coal Deceaoed was killed by a fall of roof, 4-x 2'x l' 6", which fell on hii head and ll.l.JI. Dandot P.O., Coolie. killed him instantly. ~ Punjab. 24th February, Banstakols mine, New Beerbhum Coal Co., I Kandi Majbian, (f.), 30 Coal Deceased was loadino:r coal under some ovorhaogt,;~ .. ~oof coal, a piece of whi~b, ?.l.H. Jharia P. 0., Ld. Ooal·carrie~. . measuring about 7'x4'xl' 6', fell without any W6roln1J, from a height.of Bihar and Orioaa. I 7' 6', and struck her. She sustained severe injuries and died on the follow· ing morning. Inapection and inquiry made. · • 6 28th February, Tikak mine, Assam Railways and Trad· Thamon Singh, (m.), 23, Coal, Whilst cutting coal in an u opening", IS'x 10'~6', dece~d waa s!-rook by • a 10-25 ,l.JI, Marghorita P. 0., . C Ld I "0 . " IDg o., • I openzng man. mass of coal, weighing about half a ton .. "'~'~h ~ell Without wammg from a Assam. •'slip" in the roof. He snecumbed to h1s IDJUfleB four days latera 1 , 8rd March, Kantapahari mine, I Barakar Coal Co., Ld. Ja., Fate.! Accidents, 1917-contd. Name, 1e:r, age and SnlaJ . N.o.me of mfnera1 Date and hoar of accident, Name and a itaatioD or mine. Name of owDer. occupation wrought, C1t110 ot' ace! dent and remarb, nnmbtr. of plltiOD lr;ijlef!, I _, ______FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-confd. (a) Falls of roof-contd. 8 12th March, DiahPrgarh mine, Eguitable Coal Co., Ld. Chummon Koiri, (m.), 32, Coal Dect>&$ed passed throu~h a fdnce, contrary to orders, and entered a goa£ just when 9-3o ...... Di•hergarh P. 0., Timber coohe. a fall of stone_oc:curred. He was struck ~n the he~d by apiece of stone, which Bengal. fell from a he•ght of 19 feet, and WBB kllled ontr1ght. Inspeotion and inquiry mad•J. SO, Wolfram 9 20th March, KaJimati mine, Indian Mineral Ssndicate Ram Sing, (m.), Deceased while undercutting, loooened a mass of ore which fell suddenly striking Midnight. Kalim•ti P. 0., Ooolie. him ou the side of the head, and kil!ed him. Bihar and Orissa. Taloo Singh, (111.), 32, Coal The tw~ deceased, who wore being supervioed by a Sirdar, bad juot completed th 10 23rd March, Damuda~r mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. 8 45,l.ll. Nandi . 0., 'l.'im ber coolie ; setttng of a prop. to safeguard some stone, lyingo between two Hlifs in the lleng•ol. Gujra Mahaton, (m.), 20, roof near a goaf-edge, when a portion of the stone, measuring 5'x 2' 10'~x 1' Oarpente>•, 10" thick, swayed out the prop and fell upon them. They were killed out right. Inspection and inguiry made, 11 26th March, Nandi mine, Adjai Coal Co., Ld. Chnllan Chamar,.(m.), 25, Cool Decensed w.• s working at the corner of a pillar of coal, when a small quantity of 1·30 P.ll. NandiP. 0., M£ner. stone ~II from the edge of an adjoining goaf and rolled near him. Medical Bengal. evide'nce shows that be died from shook as a result of fright. Inspection and inqui•y made. 12 29th March, Damaghul'ria mirre, Damaghunia Coal Uo., Ld. Sankhn Manjhi, (m.), 45, Coal Deoeued w.1s cuttinlj' Boor coal in a gallery, whon a piece of roof ooal, measur. - 2-30 P.ll. KultiP. 0., M·iner. ing 24' x 6' 6'' x 3 7" thiok, fell upon him, from a height of 7 feet, and killod Bengal, him outright. One othor person was injured, Inspection and inquiry made. '13 18th April, Loyabad mine, Barokar Coal Co., Ld. Robi Mullick, (m.;, 80, Coal DeceRsed was struck by a masa of Nof stone • meaauring 9'6" X 10'5" X 6", which 9-45 ...... Bunsjora P. 0., Ooal·cultfn', feU without any warninjl in his .working place, from a height of 7 feet. Bih&I' and Orissa. Death wae instantaneous. Inspection and 1nguiry made. 14 8th May, Harnai mine, Baluchistan Co&! Co., Ld. Dalal Pathan, (m.), 40, Co.J DeceBBed was'cutting coal in a' long wall' face, when a piece of roof atone sod· 3·3) P.ll. Harnai P.O., Minel", denly fell upon him and klled him. Baluchistan. 15 9th May, Angarpatra mino, Messrs. B. and M. Trig· Bcni s;ngb, (m.), 35; Kalu Coal The deoeasecl persons entered a gallery whioh had been fenced off on'llocouut of 6 P.ll. Katrasgarh P. 0., nuait. _ Singh, (m.),39, Ooal· bRdroof,amnssofwhich, meaeuringl6'x5' 10"xl'4', fell without any Bihar and Orissa. cuttft1's. warning from a ooncealed ' slip'. Both were ki!Ied instantly. Inspection and inquiry made. 16 22ndMay, Sutikdih mine, Sutiltdih Coal Co., Ld. Barjn Mahato, (In,), 27, Coal Whilst engaged in cutting roof coal in a galle•·y, •·ioinll on a slope of l in 2. 11-30 ...... Bhujudih P, 0., Ooal·cutter. deoeaaed was killed by a mass of about 1 ton of coal, meaenring 7'x 4 x 1 Bihar and Orissa. which fell from a hidden' slip·. Ris carrier, who waa loading a halilket a the ti111e, sustained an injur,r to t!le sj>ine. lns1'ection and in~uiry made, (' 17 30th May, Chinchuria mine, N•w Beerbhum Coal Co., Suku Dbangoo, (m.), 25, Coal A pieceofroofstone, measuring 12'x6'x2' t• maximum thickness. fell from 4-ilO A. >I, Asansol P. 0., Ld. Miner. betwt>en two " slips, " inclined to wards ea.ch o~her, opon deceased, wh , su1· Bongs!. ta\ned a disloc 18 gth June, New' Snratnnd mine, N•w Suratand Coal Co., Gopi ~fahato, (m.), 22, coal· Deceased, with three companions, was lighting the fnses of "shotholes in knobs 10 P.M. Jharia P. 0., Ld. Skotjirer. of coal -snpp'Jrting a mass of ooal! measnrlng 50'x30'x20', w3ich was Biha1· and Ol'issa. being' dropped.' The coal fell without w.uning. and bnried him befo:-e he could escape to a place ot safety. I.uspection and inqniry madq, (See R•porl, pager.) 19 27th June, Tikak mine, Assam Railways and T1·ade- Kadmakami, (m.); 25, .Coal A piece of coa I, weighing about half a ton, fell from the roof, at a height of 7 u ...... Margherita P. 0., ing Co., Ld. Tub· filler. ~eel, on to his ho•d and killed him instantly. Assn.m. I 20 3rd July, Ledo West mine, Assam Railways and Trad- Gorey Ghati, (m.), 32, Coal Whilst deceased was shovelling coal iu an opening, about bvo tons of c»l fell 1\lidnight. Margherita P. 0., ing Co., Ld. 1'ub-.ftller. from the roof, a.t a height of 6 feet, withoa.t any WJ.rning, striking him. oa A~se.m. the he>1dand killing him instantly. 21 5th July, Mandalpur minS, Mandalpur Coal Co., Ld. Nilmoni Kora, (f.), 15, Coal Deceased was pinned doWn by the fall of a piece of roof stone, measurln$ 11 4 P.M. Nandi P. 0., Bailer. 4/ 6" x 3' 0' X 5 , and died of suffocation before relief could be obta.inea. Bengal. Inapection and inquiry made. 1 22 7th July, East Ledo mine, Assom Hailwaye' and Trad-' Arkaram Rai, (m.), 32, Coal A fall of thirty tons of l'oof ooal occurred in an 'opening,' which vta.i 11 feet 4 A.M. Mar~herita P. 0.; ing Cor Ld. Sirdar; high, killing the two deceased outright, A~sam. Palamalchetri, (m.), 28, Tub-filler. \ 28 lith July, Gamln·ala mine, Tboknrdas Ramjidas Sher, son of Gaman, (m.), Coal Deceased, while at work in a ' long wall ' face was killed by a fall of roof, Noon. Choa •aidau Shah P. 0., ~s. measuring 2' 6'' x !.' 6" x 1'. Pan jab. ,Miner. 19th Julv, Jharia Khaa mine. Standard Coal Co., Ld. Ramdhir Singh, (m.), 30, Coal Deceased was boring a shot hole in the bott~m of a pillar, when a mass of roof 1 P.l< •• Jharia P. 0., Ooal cutter. coal, weighing about 25 cwts., fell from a height of 20' 0' upon him. Hihar and Orissa. luspectiou and inquiry made. · 25 ho Augnst, Namdang mine, As011m Railways and Trad- Bhuloo Musalman (01.), Coal Deceased, while engaged in scraping coal towards a tub in an opening, was stra.ck 9-30 A, >I. Mar! 26 14th Ao~ust, Banstakola mine, New Beerbhum Coal Co., Lalla Kutchi, (m.), 22, Coal Decea•ed was st!nck by a fall of roof coal, meaouring ,. X 8' x 2", which. 6-30-p,l(. .Jharia P. 0., Ld. Miner. fell from a height of 18 fe•t. He died the following day. Bihar and Orissa. 27 16th August, Vano1•ookhae or South E•st The Hon'ble Maharaja M. G. Jack, (m.), 31, Coal Deceased was removing a stack of coal, me.1ouring about 3 feet square by 12 feet 4-30 ..... llarllboni mine, C. Nandi. Manc19t1r. high.. in a goaf, when the shale roof col!apst!d. All props were swayed out, C hal'Dpur P. 0., Bengal, and one of them struck him, causing fractures of the right thifh and pelvU.. from the effects of which he died eight houl'8 later. napection and inquiry made. (S.. Report, pago 1.) 28 17th Auguot, W Pat Ledo mine, Assam 'Rail .. ays IUld Khanmohmed, (111.), 38 ; Coal While ohovelling coal in an opening, amasa of roof coal, weighing 5 ton.o, feU S-60 P.ll. Jdargherita P. 0., Trading Co.. Ld. Ogn .Makranie, (m.l, S5, from a height oi 20 feet, and killed the two deoeased. Asaam. Ooal-•k.OfJolloro. APPENDIX 11-contd, Fatal Accidents, 1917-contd Name, &ex, age and Name or mineral •S::::~. Date aud bour of aeoldeut. Name and aitu.atiou of mine. Name of owner. OC<'npstioo Cauae of accident and remark• • of person tilled. ! wrought, FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-contd', (a) Falls of roof-contd. 29 28th August, West Ledo mine, As"am Bail ways and Jadoo Lobar, (m.), 20, Co&! While shovelling coal in an opening a mass of roof coal, weighing one ton~ fell 3 A,ll(, .Margherita P, 0., Trading Co., Ld. Ooal·1koveller, , from a height of 18 feet on tho ~elld of deceaaed, killing him on the spo As•am. 30 1st September, Egarcoor mine, New Chirhnda Coal Co. Dukhan Roy, (m.),35, Coal Deceased passed through a fence and starte_d to wedge do'."n a yiece of coal ll.A ..ar. MniDh, P. 0., / MiMr. which fell unexpectedly and knocked h1m down, crushing hlB le~t an~le ihar and Oriooa. and cadsinoo minor wounds on his body. The piece of coal was tr1a.!l~~ &£ in ahape a~d measured 3' 2"x 1' 8 "x l'6"th10k. It fell from a he1g .0 8 feet. He died the following day froJf shook. Inspection and inqUiry made. ' 31 7'ih September, Knrkend mine, Sudamdih Coal Co., Ld. Ch!'ttka Manjhi, (m.), 22, Coal Deceaaed was filling a basket of ooal when a mass of roof coal, mea.su~nr, 1•30 P.H, Xuounda P. 0., Ooal-carl"'ie'l'. 15' 6"x 12' O"x 3' 6", feU withont any warning from a hidden " shp ~ Bihar and Orilla. killing him instantly. Inspection and inquiry made. ~ Sll 8th September, Eklahra mine, Pench River Coal Co., Ld. Sh•ikh Bhanji, (m.), 20, Coal I Deceased, while carrying coal from the coalfooe to a tub was killed by a fall of 2·45 P.ll(, Penc'h P.O., Ooal·flller. roof. Central ProYinoes. 33 8th September, Tikak mine. Assam Railways and Monoratbi Jaisoo, (m.),•25, Coal Deceased was filling coal at the entrance of the opening, whn a ·piece of coal, lA. .I(, Margherita P. 0 ., Trading Co., Ld. Basket filler. weighing about 3 cwts., fell from the roof, at a height of 14 feet, on to his Aaoam. head, killing him instantly. 34 11th September, K endwadih mine, H&rriladib Coal Co., Ld. Mayaram Gowre, (m.), 35, Cool Deceased went inoide a fence into the goaf to cut coal from the lower si.de of 6 ...... J •madaba P. 0., Ooa Z·cutter. a pillar. A mass of roof stone, measuring 3.4' 0" X 6~ 0" X 1' 0'', ~elJ w1t~o11t Bihar and Orisoa, warning ond before he could escape part of 1t struck h1m. He sustained aenous internal injuries and died almost immediately. Inspaction and inquiry made. 35 12th S•ptember, l~a.nsjora mine, Bansjora Coal Co., Ld. Din11 Mea.h, (w.), 35, Coat Deceased went underneath a pilla.r, which wa.• standin~ on foar " 11took:s, " pre· l P.H. Bansjora P. 0., Under9round Sirdar, paratory to dropping the coal overhead. One of the "atooks" collapsed Bihar and Orissa. without a.oy warning, bringing down a mass of coal, which buried .b.im completely. His body was recovered 24. boars afterwards. inspection and inquiry made. 116 15th September, Sodepur No. 8 mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Daman Manjhi, (m.), 18 Coal Deceased wao filling a basket of coal in a newly·openad ~;oaf, when a triangular 5-30A.H. Sitarampur P. 0., Min~f'. piece of roof coal, measuring 20'x7'x23'' thick, fell upon him, from a Bengal,. height of 10 feet. He was killed instantly. Inspection and inqniry made. 37 17th Septembe•, Tikak lnine, Assam Railways sad Daga Komi (Nepanli), Coal Deceas~d waR filling coal in an opening, whPD. a mass of roof coal, Wei.~hing llA.H, lllargherita P. 0., Trading Co., Ld. (m.).25, about SO lbs., f•.II from the roof, at a height of 25 feet, and struck. b1m on Aasam. Tuh:fille1'. the head, killing him instantly. . 38 18th September, A lkusa N Jrth mine, Raniganj Coal Association, Gulu Tudi, (m.), 28, Coal Deceased was in the act of drAssing down the overhanging coal from a taushroom 4·30 ..... Kusunda P.-O .• Ld. Coal-cutter. shaped pillar, 3 feet in diameter at the bottom, when a "stook" collapsed Bihar and Orissa. suddenly and be W•s buried un 89 29tn Septemb.r, Bhagrand mine, Borrea Coal Co., Ld. Sohagi Ma11jhian, (f.), 20, Coal A boulder of ironstone, measuring 2!' X 1'·6" X 9' thick, felllhrougb a h•igbt of 4·30A.>I. Salanpur l'. 0., Coal-carrie''• 11 feet from the roof and struck deceaaed en the 1-igbt shouldor. She died . Bengal . from shock shortly after the accident. Inspection and inqu.iJy madt>, <10 29th September, Jot ejana.ki mine, S. Chowdhury. Lukhi Manjhian, (/.), 35; Coal The two deceased were sitting inside a fenced area, when a piec8 of roof shale, Noqn. Topoei P. 0., Sukhi Munjhian, (f.), measuring 14' x 4' x s· thick, fell upon them from a height of 13 feet. Bengal. 21; Lukhi was killed outl'ight aud sukhi died, from shock, the nell duy, Iu- Coal tarriera. apection and inquiry made. 41 2nd October, Bhelatand mine, Tata Iron and Steel Co., Mohammed. Din Meah, Coal Deceased, in order te facilitate his coal Clttting, knocked out a prop set withiDI 2A,M, Sijua P. 0., Ld. (m.), 32, Coal·cutter. 3' 0"' of the face of his gc11lery. A piece of roof, measuring 5' 9'' x 21 6"" Bi bar and Odssa. X 0' 11'', broke away from a "slip'', from a height of 6 feet, and stl'uck him. on the bead. He W&ii ki!Ied on the spot. Inspection and inquiry made. 42 22nd October, Ledo Valle_v West mine, Assam Railways and Trad· Moulsad, (m.\, 44, Coal , Three shots had been 61·ed in the roof and shortly afterwards a mass of coal,. 10·§ P.M. Margherita P. 0., ing Co., Ltd. Head Sirdar. weighing about 4 cwts., fell from the roof, at a height of 18 feet, and struck Assam. him on the head, killing him instantly. 43 27th October, Ledo Valley '1'1' est mine,- Assam Railways and Trad· Sharip Musalman (m.), Coal , While the two deceased were filling coal in an opening, a mass of coal, weighing 4P.U. Margherita P. 0., ing Co., Ld. l!2; about 3U cwts., fell from the roof at a height of 20 feet, and struck the two Assam. Nazarkhan Musalman, deceased. Sbarip was killed outright and Nazirkhan died shortly after (m.); 40, Tub-fillers. being admitted to hospital. IIi>- <:;:> 44. 9th November, Albion mine, Albion Coal Co, Ld. Suku Manjhi (m.), 20, Coal • A mass of roof coal, measuring 8' 6"" X 8' 0"" X~, 0', fell without any warning , ...... N owagarh P. 0., Coal-cutter. from a concealed " slip ., from a height of 9 feet, upon deceased, who was Bihar & Orissa. sitting down underneath it, killing him instantaneously. Inspection aud inquiry made. 45 lOth November, Bon J umerri mine, Bon Jumerri Anthracite Chuni Manjhi, (m.), 35, Coal • An undisclosed boulder in the roof, measuring 6'XO'X2' 9•x1' o· thick, 4 ...... Salanpur ll. 0., Colliery Ld. Miner. fell from a height of 7 feet, and struck deceased on the head ; he died eight llengal. houl'S later fromlthe effects of his inju1ies. Inspection and inquiry made. 46 2Srd November LutchiJmr mine, Damuda Coal Co., Ld. Jharri Kora, (m.), 24., Coal • Deceased was standing under a piece of roof ..:oa!, measuring 2' ()f x 1' a•x 8",. 2·30 P.¥. Sitarnmpur P. 0., Miner. which he had previously loosened. It fell upon him, causing severe injuries. Hengal. to his head, which resulted in his death, five days later, Inspection and inquiry made. 4.'1 9th December, Mohpani mine, Great Indian Peninsula 1 Nankoo, (m.), 35, Coal • While deceased was cutting coal in a gallery, a "weight" of roof coal , ...... Mohpani P. 0., Railway Co. Coal·h6111er, occurred. This was followed by a fall of roof which killed him on the spot. Central Provinces. \ . He had been warned by another workman to osase working. 48 20th December, Tikak mine, Assam Rafi wayo and Porsha Joisa, (m.), 20, Coal Whilflt deceased was loading coal in an "opening;• 43' x 24'X 18' high, B m&ss. 8 P.ll. Margberita P. 0., Trading Co., Ld. Tub-filler. of 4 tons of coal fell from the roof, He was struck on the head acd killed Assam. instantaneously. &9 2-lth December, Ghusik mine, Ghusik and Muslia Dliona Mochi, (m.), 20 ; Coal , Whilst four miners were engaged in extracting a pillar of coal in a seam, 11'6., 2·46 P.M. Kalipahari 1'. 0., Collierieo, Ld. 6aju Mochi, (m.), 20; thick, roof coal and stone from S to 6 feet thick, fell over an area, "' Beng-•1. Pasupati Mochi, (m.), 14., measuring 38'X 16'. The three deceased were killed on the spot. Inspec• .. Coal~cutters. tion and inquiry made. (See Repfn'l, pag• 8.) APPENDIX 11-cOtltd• . Fatal .Accidents,l917-contd. Serlal lf'ame, eex. •II'• ud Date of boar olaeeideat. Name and eJtaatioa of mine. Name of owoer. oecn}'6tion w:rougbi. Can1e of aecldon& &Dd remarh. aamber. of penon .killed. · I"""'' or m;oo!Ol' . FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-eon#. ' (al Falls of roof-concli. 50 ~5th Decem~er, Tikak mine, Aesam Railways and Trad- Karma Bahadnr Gharti, Coal , While seven perBOna were at work in an ~ening, an enormous mass of coa), 4.l.ll. Margherita P. 0., ing Co, Ld. {m.), :19, estimated to weigh about 800 tons, ell from the roof and the front of the· Assam. Opening man. opening. Three persons escaped but the three deceased were struck by th Aileycbarky, (m.), 30, cool and killed outright. One other person waa injured. Looraycbarti, (m.), l!l, Tub-jillirr•. ~1 29th Deeem her, Serampur mine, East Indi&'n Railway Co. Ranjan Miah, (m.) 16, Coal Deceased were killed by a fall of roof coal at the top a oelf acting incline. A 10·30 P.ll, Giridih P. 0., Coal-cutter; Dukni Telin thickness of 2'6" oE roof coal feli over an area meariuring 27' X 16'. lnopec· Bihar and Orissa. (f.) 40, Coal-carrier. tion and inquiry made, (b) Falls of side-{50 death~). 62 lOth Jan nary, Barari mine, East Indian Coal Co., Ld. Bandhu Meah, (m.), 35. Coal The two deceased with two other men broke down a fence and began to load up 7-30 P.ll. Jamadoba P. 0., ,Propping cMpenter; coal fallen from a stook of coal, l& ft. square and 26 ft. high in a pillar cut- Bihar and Orissa. Lat~ Kanda, (m.), 21>, ' ting district. Owing to roof weight the stook was crushed out and the coal Propping coolie. fell upon them. Both the deceased, were killed on the spot and the other two men were injured. Inspection and inq~ ma.de. ' 5a 25th Jan nary, South Wagon mine, Fiala y Fleming and Co, , Fung Fat, ( m.), 40, Wolfram Deceased was killed by a fall of partly decomposed granite which feU from the 9-so ...... Tavoy P. 0., Miner. henging ... all at which he was working. . Burma. · 64 27th J anoary, Sodepnr min"', Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Mungal Maujhi, (m.), 27, Coal Deceased was robbing a pillar when a m ... of roof coal, weighing about 4 tons ~-30 ...... Sjtarampur P. 0., Coal~cutter. fell upon him. He sustained serious injuries and died two houra later Bengal. Inspection and inquiry made. I 55 31st Jan nary, Sutikdih mine, Sutikdih Coal Co., Ld. Sarnm :M ahato, (m. ), 35, Coal Deceased, in diRobedience of orders, wa.s nndercntting the side of a pillar. 1-;!0P.lil. Bhujudih P. 0., Ooa~ cutter. Whih;t so doing, a piece of stone-40"x22"x13"-fell from- a height of 7 Bihar and Ori 67 1st February, Kendwadih mine; East Indian Coal Co., Ld. Dayal Bhuiya, (m,), 32, Coal Deceased w•s employed in a pillar cutting district. Preparatory to commenc· 9-so ...... Kuaunda P. 0., ' Coal-cutter, ing work be took: a sonnding pole and begKn to test some overhaneing coal1 Bihar and Orissa. in his working place, A m•ss of some ;!() cwts. of coal fell upon him from a height of 18 feet. He ouatained injnries to which he succumbed three bon» later. Inspection and inquir.f made. 68 3rd February, Lodna. mine, Lodna Colliery Co • Ld. • Gaju Kahar, {m.), sr, Coal Deceased went into a fenced gallery to rob the corner of a pillar, Whilst so· 11-30 ..... Jharia P. 0., Hoolernan.~ doing. a mass of r.oal, weighing about 8 tons, fell. tie was struck by &'· Bitar alld Orissa. falling piece, and died two ~ours later. Inspection and inquiry made. I 69 6th February, Tirap mine, Assam Railways and Trad Bhim Singh, Chetri, Coal About 150 tons of coal and dirt fell from the side of a quarry and suffocated the fj A.J<, M 2'rgherita P. 0., ing Co., Ld. (m.j, 19, Basket-carrier ; two deceased. The deceased Jitman, who was the Sirdar in charge, appears Assam. Jitman Thapa, {m,), 32, to have been aoleep. Sirdar. 60 20th Februery, Lodna mine, Lodna Colliery Co., Ld. • Bipan Kora, (m. ', 28, Coal Deceased was cnttin2' the floor of a· ga.llt.>ry, when a piece o"f side eoal, 3' 3" X 6-30 ..... Jhar;a P. 0., Ooal-cvtttr. 2~ O''xO~ 9", fell, from a distance of 24 feet, on to his head. He die~ Bihar and Orissa. shortly afterwards. lnopection and inquiry made. 81 21st February, Bheroghat mine, Katni Cement and Indus- Guja Bharia, {m.J, 30, Soap-stone • Deceased was working at the bottom of a soapstone pit, 34 feet in . deptb, 1 ...... Katni P. 0., trial Co., Ld. Miner. when a piece of marble, me"suring 2' 8" X 1' X 1', fell from a height of 8 Central Provinces. feet upon hi.Jn, killing him instantly. His two 'JOmpanions escaped with a few superficial wou.ads. Inspection and iaqniry made. 62 22nd February, Hermyingyi mine, Hermyingyi Mining Co., Chan~ Pong, (m.), 42, Wolfram Deceased, againot orde.,, undercut the foot wall with the result that two 11 A,J<. Tavoy P. 0, Ld. Tributor. tons of rooil fell, from a height of 5 feet, on tJ his head and killed him Burma. instantly. 63 28th February, K urkend mine, Motiram Coal Co. Hiraman Barbi, (m.), 45, Coal Deceased wa~ one of a gang of five _platelayers, engaged in repairing the line ll.LJ<. Kurkend P. 0., Platelayer' • labourer. on a dip haulage road. He w~ struck donn lly a mass of coal, weighing Bihar and Orissa. about 6 ewts, which fell from a "slip" in the side of a pillar at a height of 12 ff'et. He sustained injuries to wnich he sncca.mbed witb.in a few hours. Inspection aud inquiry made. M 22nd March, Pada.uk mine, • A. S. Mohomed Loung Sam, (m.), 23, Wolfram • About 150 cubic feet of earth, loosOIIed by heavy rain, fell on deceased, from a 3 ..... Tavoy P. 0., Coolie. height of liJ feet and suffoc•ted him. llurma. 65 2Zrd March, Pagaye mine, Rangoon llining Co., Ld. Ab Pein, (m.). Wolfram Deceased, contrary to ordero, started to dig in a tunnel. A slab of ochist, weigh· 4-SO P.J<. Tavoy P.O.. :l'ributor- ing about 2 tons, fell from the side and killed hiin outright. Burma. 66 29th March, Ramagiri mine, Anantapur Goldfields Ld. . Boristi, (m.), 22, Gold While some old ore stuff wao being tamed over in a trench 5 feet wide and S feet lO·SO A.ll. Morriston P. 0., Undergro11flll Mi•t'7J. deep, about 1 ton of the stuff fell npon d•oeased. In stepping back. be slipped lladroo. and in consequence his body , was covered by the stuff,_ CaUSlng eevtore· internal injuries, from which he died. 5th April, Alkusa and Kiska mine, Kanga & Co. Pain Ghatwarin, (f.), 18, Coal The husband of deceased .tas standing on a barrel engaged in taking down over n ..... Kusnnda P. 0., Coal-carrier. banging coal from a pillar 13 feet high. A mass of coal, 8' « 3 '3" x 3' "' Bihar and Orissa. thick; weighing nearly 2 tons, fell sooner than he e~pe~ed. Deceased, who carried coal for her husband, was atrock down and killed mstantaneously and her husband was slightly injured by falling off the barreL lnopection. and inquiry made. 68 5th April, Lodna mine, Lodna Colliery Co~· Ld., Bakbal Mulliek, (m.J, 35, Coal A pisoe of side coal was being pulled ov<'r from a " !lip " on the side of a pillu in 11·10 ..... Jharia P. 0., Ooal-cr>mtf1', course of e:traotion. W ben the coal fell onr it knocked out a prop :!6 feet Bihar and Oriooa. long, whioh atro.ck deceased, caosing: severe ~ju~ea to the head from which he died almost immediately. lnspectlon and Inquiry made. 611 lltb April, H~aungdsw mine, Steel Broa. & Co., Ld. Po Thong, (m.), 21}, Wolfram Deceaoed was instruoted to take down the side of an open cut but did not do so. 3 ..... &YOJ P.o.. TributiJI'. A fall of side occurred, fracturing hio neck and killing him instantly. Burma. APPENDIX 11-conttl. Fatal Accidents, 1917 .-contd. Name,ee:r,·age and SeriAl Name of mineral Date and hOIU' of aocideni. Name and el.tutlon of mine. Name of owner. ocoupotion wrought. Can•• of accident and remarks. DIUDbero of person killed. FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-•o•td. i (b) Falls of side-contd. I . ' I 70 28th April, Hennyingyi mine, Hermyingyi Mining Co.,' Won~ Hing, (m.), 45, Wolfram While attempting to steal ore from an adit which was not being worked, he w.. Tavoy P. 0., Ld._ D•mp Picker. buried by a fall of earlh from the aide of a winze and died eight da ys 11•·"· Burma. afterwards. 71 ~th May, Sonardih mine, G. D. Bhattacharji and Jugal Bhuiya, (m.), so, Coal ·. The sea,;, ia in two sections, separoted by a band of stone, 1 foot thick. The tw0 10.l.H. K atrasgarh P, 0., A. C. Ghosh. Coal-cutter ; deceased persons entered a. fenced gallery and commenced cuttin~· side coaI Bihar and Orissa. Nan<'• La! Bhuiya (m.), bene~ttb a piece of the middle stone which was oTerhanging an nnFafe. A ' 2, mass of the atone. measuring 6' x 4' x 1', fell upon them. killin-' the m Oou.l-carl'ier. instantly. InsFection and inquiry made. 72 22nd May, South Kustore n1ine, IR aniganj cod Association, Gbomo Garaini, (.f.), 28, Coal Deceaaed w•s standing close to her hoaband, who wao pulling down side coal with 12·80 P.M. " Kusunda P. 0., Ld. Ooal·carriw. a. crowbar. A wedge shaped mass of coal, measuring 5' O"X2' 9" x 1 Bihar and Ori.... 0", broke aws.y along a "slip" and fell upoD. her. She 1ostained sever I internal injurieo and died almost immediately. Inspection and inquiry made. ' I 73 2nd June, Kurkend mine, \ Motiram Coal Co. Amrit Dhobi, (m.), 54; Coal A ma/s of cos!, measu~ing 14' x 3' • 5', fell from the aide of a pillar in the coura 1·30 ... ><. Kurkend P. 0., Lolon Dhobi, (m.), 23, to extraction. The two deceased, who were loading coal beneath it, wer • Bihar and Orissa. Ooal·carri~ra. uried und•r the fall and suota.ined serious injuries from which they _die d almost immediately. Inapeetion and inquiry made. 74 6th June, Bpaungdaw mine, Steel Brca. & Co., Ld. Chu Ho, (m.), 35, Wolfram Deceassd wao working at night without a light and controry to orders, at the foo 9P.M. Tavoy P. 0., Tributor. of a 20 feet bank. A portion of the side of the bank, measuring 20' x \5' X Burma. 2', whioh h•d previously been loosened by water, fell upon him, dislocatin g his neck and killing him inotantly. 75 13th June, Tatiparthi mine, Yerab•ka V enkatarami Ameri Penchelugadu, (m.), Mica , I Deseased was atruck on the head by a fall of earth, 3' X 3' X 1' 6', which fel 10-30 .l.K. Sangam P. 0., Reddi. 16, f1·om the ~ide of an excavation. He was killed instantly. Ma 77 21st Jul_y, IWidnes Mine, High Speed Steel Alloys, Tha Chine, (m.), 20, Wolfram Whilst decea~ed was working in a sluicing open-cut, about 1t tons of earth ft'l 9A.M, TavoyP.O., Ld. Tributor. from the side, at heil!'ht of a.bout 12 feet, bringing two or three logs of tim be Burma. with it. Deceased wat buried under the fall, and was found to be dead wl:en . extricated. '1'8 1st August, Xusunda mine, Kusund& and ,Nayadih Singrai Majhi, (m.), 38, Coal Deceaaed, in spite of being warned not to do so, went underneath overhanging 11·30.&.H, Kusunda P. 0., Collieries, Ld, Coal-cutter. side coal which was being got down. A piece of coa~ meosuring 6 0" Bi bar and Orissa. x l' 8" xO' 10", fell, without any warning, from a height of 12 feet, and ' struck him. He sustained a fracture of both 1•1<• and the spine and died 22! houro later. Inspection and inquiry made. ' '1'9 23rd August, New Sura tar mine, New Suratar Coal Co., Jhingu Cham&r, (m.), 30, Coal Whilst engaged in dressing down loo~e coal from the corner of a pillar, after JO.&.H, Jharia P. 0., Ld. Ooal·cutter. blasting, deceased was killed on the spot by the fall of some 4 tons of Bihar and Orissa. coal, from a height of 6 feet. Another coal-cutter, who was holding a light for deceased at the time, was slightly injured. Inspection and inquiry made. 80 29th August, Central Kurkend mine, Central Kurkend Coal Co., Nankoo Chamar,Belaspuri, Coal 1.&.H. Four coal-cutters were engaged in the extraction at a portion of a pillarin Kuounda P. 0., Ld. (m.), 26, a coal seam 12 feet thick. They undercut the pillar until a slab of coal, Bihar and Orissa. Coal·cutter. 12'x7'x6• to 2'X6" thick, toppled over and fell upon deceased, killing him on the spot. 81 29th August, Benahir mine, Standard Coal Co., Ld. Dwarka Lode, (m.), 40, 4.P.H. Coal A shot b,ad been fired with the object of bringing down overhanging coal from Jharia P. 0., Coal-cutter. the corner of a pillar, 23 feet in height. After some time had elapsed deceased Bihar and Orissa. returned to the place, and, whilst examining it, was killed on the spot by the f&ll of some 12 tons of ooal. Inspection and inquiry made. . 82 4th September, Ba.nsdeopur mine, B.. nsdeopur Coal Co., Ld. Suku Manjhi, (m.), 18 ; Coal Noon. Kusunda P. 0., Whilst deceased were enga~ed in the extraction of a pillar of coal, 24 feet in height, a mass of coal, weighi~ about 6 tons, fell from "slips" about 12 Bihar and Orissa. Dhiba Manjhi, (m.), 30, feet above. Dhiba was buri by the coal and killed on the spot. Suka, Ooal .. cuttera. and two others, in attempting to avoid the fa!Jin>' coal, fell through a stone outting into a lower seam 30 feet heJow. Suku was killed, the other two persons were severely injured. Shortly after the 6rst fall, a second fall of some 30 tons of coal, took place. Inspection and inquiry made. (See Report, page 9.) ~ f!S 14th September, East Kurkend mine, Marine Coal Co., Ld. 1·30 P.H. J a•odar Beldarin (f.), 40; Coal Deceased were hurried nnder a mass of snh•oil, which slipped from the vertieal Kuounda P. 0., Bandia Beldarin, {f) 30 ; side of a quarry. They were suffocated before they could be e:rlricaled. In• Bihar and Orissa. Dust Cafflera ; spection and inquiry made. Etwari Be!dat·in, (f.), 2. 84 26th September, Noonoodih mine, Bengal Iron and Steel Co., Balodar Kamar (m.), 40. Coal 2·80 P. H. Jharia P. 0., Deceased was onttinJ. coal on the faoe of a pillar in the course! of extraotion, wheo Ld. Coal-~ utter. a fiece of co , , measuring about 1' X tl' X 1' X 9•, fell over from a hei2'ht Bihar and Orissa. of !feet, and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous. 86 Srd October, Kapasara No. 1 Plot mine, Abdul Karim and Bros. Rajani Fanri, (m.), 26, Coal • 1 p,)(, MugmaP. Deceased, during the absence of the sirdar, passed through a fence to rob some 0., MiMr. overhanging coal in a gaUery, when the coal, which was triangnlar in shape Bth&r aud Orissa. and D>essured 8'0·xs•s·x6'o•tbick, fell upon him, from a height of 11' 6", and killed him outright. Inspection and inqo.iry made. 86 9th Oetoher, Jhoria Kbas mine, Standard Coal Co., Ld. 2-30 .&.H. Loopsi Manjhian, (f.), 18, Coal • - Deceased was 61ling a baaket of coal whilst a miner was robbing coal from the Jharia P. 0., Co'll-carrier. Bihar and Orissa. side of a pillar. A ma" of side coal, weighing about 2 tons, fell over upon them both ; deceased w.. killed instantaneously, and tbe miner oustamed a compound fraoture of both legs. Inspection and inquiry made. 87 11th October, Sijua mine, Si jua Coal Co., Ld. 2-SO P.H. SijuaP. K alia Khorani. (f.), So, Coal • Deoeased was found lying under a foil in a disused gallery, in whioh a mass of 0., Coal-carriw. Bihar aLd Orissa. side eoal, measuring 15'x20'x ~' 6', had fallen over from a"' slip"' from the aide of a pillar. There was evidence that the '• slip" had been recently under- cut, but it could not be aaoertained by whom it bad been undercut. The gallery was fenced. Inspection and inquiry made. APPENDIX 11-conta. Fatal Acciqents, 1911-conta. !t'ame, 1es:, age aud Serial Name of mineral Date and boor of .).,!doni. Name and 1ituatlon of tnloe. Name of owner. ooonpatlon wrought. Cau1e of accident and romarkt, anmber, l ot penon killed, I ., - FALLS OF ROOF AND SIDES-concld. (b) Falls of side-concld. 88 18th October, Sri);11lr mine, Lodna Colliery Co., Ld. Snlll from a height of 2' x 6' upon hio ohest and lleugal. arm. He ~nstained cats and bruise~ on the chest and a f~tured arm. He was - pro~resSiing. flf.vourably ~hen his relatives removed the dressings and applied nativedresslllgs. He~.bed oftetanustwodayalater. Inspection and inqo.iry mad.-. 89 1st November, Hnntodib mi'ne, Huntodih Coal Co., Ld. Wazir Me.ah (m.), 40, Coal • "' Deceased was one of four coal .. eutters engaged in extraP.ting a pillar of ·ooa1~ 7 10 P.H. !lohodaP. 0., Coal-cutter. feet in height. He undercut the corner of the pillar to a depth of 3' 6", and Bihar and 0l'iua. was killed on the spot by a mass of coal, wei~hing 30 cwto., wllioh fell upon I, him irom & ,. slip.'' Inspection and inquiry made. 90 27th November, Hapungdaw mice, Steel Bros. & Co., Ld. Ah Bu, (m.), 23, Wolfram Deceased was drilling in &D open out workin6r, when part of the aide, loosened by 1•30 A.JH, Tavoy P. 0., Trihatar. bJa,ting and not properly barred down, fell on him, fracturing hie skull and ,/"" Burma. ( killing him instantly. 91 4th December, La.korka mine, Lakorka Coal Co., Ld. Siram Manjhi, (m.), 35 ; Coal Whilst four co'a.l-cutters were engaged in underouttin~ a pillar of coal. in a seam 4·30 P.lll:. Katrasgarh P. 0., Jimla Manjhi, (m.) 26, 11 feet thick, a mass of overhanging coal, 6' 6"x2 x1'x9', fell from a Bihar and Orissa. . Coal-cuttsra . height of~ feet. Two of them were killed and a third serio~Uly injlll'Od. Inspection and inquiry made. 92 16th December Hermyingyi mine, Hermyingyi Mining Co., Ray Hmun, (m.), 26, Wolfram Deee ..ed ~ad been ordered to oet tioober in an open out, but om1tted to do 80 10-16 A.. H. Ta.voy P. u., Ld. Miner. He was killed by a fall of e•rth, which fell from 'the side, at a height of 1 BormH.. feet. 93 25th December, Kusmai No.1 mine, F. F. Chrestien & Co., Ld. Kehar Rai, (m.), 30, Mica, While dece.\Sed was extracting a. piece of mica with .1 chisel, ha was struck by a 4 J..lH. Ganwan P. 0., Driller. pit-ce of pegmatiW, measuring 3'x2'6"'x2', which fell from the aide of a .Bihar and Orissa. I drive. He died the f~llowing.day. Another person was injured. IN SHAFTS-FALLING INTo THE SHAFT FROM THE SURFACE~(2 deaths). I 94 27th March, Khas Jinagora min8, Gova Petha & Co. • Mohar Teli, (.,..), 40, Coal , Deceased, whilst carrying away a basket loaded wir"n stone from the top of 9 A.. 'H. Jharia P. 0., Baslcet OIM'ri.,.. sinki!!g pit, 102 feet de"p, nverbalaoeed and fell into the shaft. He wa • Bihar and Orissa. killed instantly. ln•pection and inquiry made. 95 \ 22nd April, Kes!'l&bJ!anj mine, Ram Bilas Marwari. Mnkjtan IBawari, (m.), 95, Coal Deceased was laying planks over the mouth of a shaft, containin~r water 60 fe et Kalipahari 1:'. 0., Sirdar. deep. when he slipped and fell into the shaft. In falling his bead struck 2 P.M. - '. I Bengal. girder and a.ppRrently stunned him, for he sunk"at once, and Lis body was no• t I recovered till the following day. Inspection and inquiry made. IN SHAFTS-FALLING FROM P.A:'RT OF THB WAY DOWN-(8 deatka.) 96 19th February, Tandoyo mine. Messre. Johor Mull and Sobbi Goala, (m.), 85, Mica. Deceaoed wasclimbingdown a shaft, 52 feet deep, and, when be bad reached a 6.&.11. Kodarma P. 0,, Sunder Mull. Coolie. depth of 1 feet from the sUl{ace, he slipped and fell to the bottom of the Bihar and Orissa. shaft. He died on his way to h,oepitol. 97 2nd Maroh, Deoli mine, Deoli Coal Co., Ld. • Sukoo Manjhi, (m.l, 22, Coal • Deceased was being lowered in ~ shaft 10 feet in diameter and 80 feet deep by 4-80 P.>r. Deshergarh P. 0., Miner. means of eight woman and a mn.ni.la rope, passed over a pulley in the l1eadgear, Bihar and Oriesa. when he released his hold on the rope and foil, a distance of about 30 feet, to the shaft bottom. He sustained a compound, fracture of the left leg, from the effect. of which he died five days later. He was riding on the winding book at the time. After the accident ol'ders were given for a more secure seat to be provided. Inspection and inquiry made. 98 19th May, North Anantapur mine, North Anant.pur Gold Srerangam, (m.), 27, Gold Deceased was climbing down the ladder way of a shaft without a light. For 2-80 P.ll, Morriston P. 0., Mines, Ld. · Drilling-machine coolie. some reason, which could not be ascertained, he got into the "skip" rand at Madras. the 800 feet level and fell to the 650 feet level. He was killed outright. 99 22ndMay, South Jibutil mine, J ibutil (Anantapur) Gold Maridoss, (m.), 32, Gold. Whilst loading planks into the " skip " at the 280 feet level he feli down the 1 P.>r. Morriston P, 0., Mines, Ld. Timber coolie. shaft to the l,OOO.feet level, and was killed instantly: • . Madras. 100 24th June, Khas Jharia mine, Khora Ramji Ranglal Theldar, (m.), 30, Coal • Deceased was being· raised in a bucket in a sinking shaft, when the edge of the 6-30 P.JI. Jharia P. 0., Pump khalaai. bucket came in oontact with a clamp holding three pipes in column. Bihar and Orissa. A hook of the bucket broke and dece ..ed was thrown out and fell into the sump 40 feet below. He sustained only an abrasion of the left leg, but blood poisoning supervened and he died nino days later. The clearance, which was only two feet, was insufficient. Inspection and inquiry made. II>-.., 101 90th Ooto ber, South Jibutil mine, Jibuti! (A~antapur) Gold Thippa Boviah, (m.), 34, Gold, Deceased was climbing up a ladder in a' stope' and for some unknown reason 10 P.ll. Morriston P, 0., Mines, Ld. Stuff coolie. slipped to the bottom. His chin struck tha ground and he was killed out- Madras. right. 102 20th November, North Anantapur' mine, North Anar.tapur Gold Yamoonah, (m.), 30, Gold. Deceased was stl&nding on a so liar fi IN SHAFTB-THINGS FALLING FROM THE SURFACE-(1 death). 1~ 29th September, Sibpur mine, Katras Jharia Coal Co., Ld.l Gobinda Bauri, (m.), 26, Coal • A tub had jammed in the cage at the shaft bottom and deceased, who was the 9 ...... I Charanpur P. 0., Onaetter. onsetter, W88 crossing to release it, when a piece of coal fell from a loaded Bengal. tub at the shaft top, and struck deceased, fracturing hia skull. He died in ' hospital 66 days later. Inspection and inquiry made. (Be• Report, pag• G.) APPENDIX II-oo~>trl. Fatal Accidents, 1917-contd. Natne, aes., age and Name of mineral n~J!!.. Date &Dd hour of acoident. Name and situation of mine. lfame'ofowner. oeenpation of wrought. Caau of accident and remuta. person k:Uled. / IN SHAFTS--THINGS FALLING FROM PART I OF THE WAY DOWN-(2deatlu) 105 Srd August, Sitalpur mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Dakbal Singh, (m.), 22, Coal , Deepening an e:risting shaft was in progre,., when a water bucket, on beinjl' 12·30P.JI, Deshargarh P. 0., Bini:.,.. raised, collided with one side of the sinking door frame situated at the on Bengal. gina! shaft bottom, bounded across to the other side "and finally struck a P.iece of sheeting, which became ruslodged and fell to . the bottom .of the sinking shaft. Deceased was struck and k1lled outright. InspectiOn and inquiry made. • 106 13th October, Jibutil mine, Jibutil (Anantapur) Gold j Nanja, (m.). 30, . Gold. Whilst deceased was drilling in the • oink', 264 feet from the surface, a few 9 ..... Morriston P. 0., Mines, Ld. Hand-.fumper coolie. stones fell from the side of the shaft, one of them struck deceased and frac Madras. tnred'his skull, killing him outright. The plaoe from which the stones fell oould not be discovered. IN s'B:AFTB--MISCELLANEOUS.-(3 deatM.) Clt 107 17th April, Kendwadih mine, Hariladih Coal Co., Ld. Hera Gareri, (m.), 17, Coal • Deceased walked into the sump of a shaft when the eages were l'UDning. B 0 11 .l.)(. J amadoba P. 0., p...,.p kkaltui. was struck by the d....,nrung cage, and suetained a fracture of the sknll Bihar and OriBSa. Death waa instantaneous. Inspection and inquiry made. 108 29th June, Chandametta mine, Panch Valley Co., Ld. Mulla Gond, (m.), 52, Coal • While the cages were in motion, deceased attempted to eroBS the bottom of the u ...... Pench P. 0., Timberfllan's coolie. shaft, although warned by the onsetter not to do so. He was caught by Central Provinces. the descending cage and died eleven days afterwarde. There was a travel ling road which he oould have naed. 109 9th July, .Ena mine, North West Coal Co., Ld. Mali Bauri, (m.), eo, Coal Deceased walked into the sump and was crushed by the descenrung cage. H 9·15 ..... Jharia P. 0., Oiler. sustained a fractured spine and rued two hours later. lnspeetion and in Bihar and Orissa. quiry made. SUFFOCATION BY GASES-(3 deatM.) 110 17th September, Daml'lll' mine, Abdulla Asgaralli & Co. • Para Din, (m.) 3:! ; Naik ICoal The two deceased entered a disuaed mine and were suffocated by poiaonoua gu. }p,JI, Duk:i P.O., Mohomed, (m.J 33, lnapection and inquiry made. - Baluehiatan. Miner• . .. 111 18th Oetober, Ledo Valley, Bast mine, . ABSam Railways and Trad- Kinoo Mundo, ( ...), 30, ICoal While putting up air pips• to remove '.black d•!!!p ' near an old stopping, ll.l.K. Margberita P.O., ing Co., Ld. " OpsniflfJ" f'Jidift, deceased was ovarooma by the • black damp • and diad before he conld be Assam. rescued. Three other cooli .., whom the E oropean foreman aent into the BY EXPLOSIVE.-(9 dsat.h). place, one by one, to reocae dee....,.}, wo!"'· also affected but recovered. ,. ,, " 112 \30th March, Barkui mine, Panch Valley Coal Co., IMangru Abir, (m.), 30; ·[.Coal ;rhe two deceased were returning to a ohot which had hung lire, whsn it e:rplodecl 1·30 p,)(, Pench P.O., Ld. Kiraih Lobar, (m.), 22, and they received iujnrieo from the effaote af which they died four days Canlral l'rovinaeo. - 116...... ·- later. lnspeotion and inquiry made. • 118 Uth May, Kalicheftu mine, l!'. P. Chrestien & Co., Ld. llengi Ventegadu, (m.), 16, llrlioa A miner and the deceased boy, neither of whom were authorized to fire shota, 4o P.JI. Podalokur P.O., Miner. obtained dynamite and a detonator from the perllon In charge of m .. tl' '· 114. Slst May, North Dobori mine, Sahana Coal Co. Kali Cbaran Beldar, (a.) Cool Deceased wae etrnok by a piece of 'iock, about 10 lbs. in weight, which was flung lli•304.Jio Jhario P.O., 25, Coal-cutter. into the air during blasting operations in an adjacent quany. He snstained Bihar and Orissa. serioue injuries to hie left leg and died eighteen houro lAter. IMpaction and injuiry made. 116 16th July, Jatacbappa mine, . Upper Penoh Coal Co., Ld. B•ban Pinjara, (m.), 22, Coal Deceaaed waa attending to a steam pump close to a level where shot firing waa ll-30.o.K. Penoh 1'.0., · Pump driver. being corried on. Five ohota had been fired and, thinking that the shot firing Centre! Provinces. W":" over, .he •PJ>.!oac.bed the place. ,As he did s.o & trirlb shot exploded and inJured h1m. .tie dted five days afterwards. E1ght sbota altogether were fired. Tho Manager states that ample warning was given by the shot firer. 116 26th Auguat, Ramagiri mine. ADJintapur Gold Pieldo, Mankarai Thaygan, (m.) 30, Gold Deceased waa lighting shot holes in the bottom of a abaft when the first hole m<· s-ao .... Morriston P.O., Ld. Blasur. ploded before he had finished lighting. He died from shock oaused by the lladrao.' injuries which be received. He is stated to have been a oompetent blaster but presumably misjudged the time. 117 22ood Boptember, Alkasa South mine, Raoiganj Coal Association, Nazam, <•·l 20; Coal The two deceased, who were country powder makers, spread about 60 Ilia. of 7 ..... Kneunda P.O., Ld. Maslim {m.). lP, Countr9 country powder on the top of a Lancashire boiler to dry during tbe night. Bihar and OriBB&. powder maker&. In the morning they heaped the pow.der together preparatory te removal, and were sitting down on top of the botler, when the powder was in some way ignited, one of tqem died three days and another five days later ae a rtiSnlt of their injuriee. Two other men were also burnt but recovered. Inspection and inquiry made. 118 4oth October, Sodepur (9 & 10) Pits mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Kanai Dosadh, (m.), 35, Coal Deceaaed and another person drilled into an old socket and erploded a cartridge 1·16 P.JI. Sit&rampur P.O., Sllme-r.utter. of gelignite that bad failed t~ ~xp~ode on ~be occaeio'! of the ias.t shot. De· Bengal. ceased d1ed next day from IDJurtee recetved and hts companton IIIUstaiDed two punctured wounds. Inspection and inquiry made. IRRUPTIONS OF WATER OF PALLING INTO WATER (4 death•.} · I 119 Wh April, Kankani, mine, Eutem Coal Co., Ld. Brigbao.ath Singh, (•.), 26, Coal The body of d...... d W&8 fonDd in B boiler-tank oontaining' &' 6" of water. Unknown. BaMjora P. 0., Br~rDeyor"• Death ... attrihnted to suifocation by drowning. InspeCtion and inqniry Bihar and Oriua. c4ain111DA. made. 120 20th June, sr,darchak mine, Shampore Coal Co., Ld. Cbobar Lobar, (m.), 37, Coal While seven men 11'ere under ground, an inrush of water from some old ,..... nudarcbak P. 0., Filter; water louged workinga occnned and the mine wae flooded. Threa of the Bengal. Haroo Thakur, (•.), 23, men ,..;e drowned. Inspection and inquiry made. (See ~eport, pago 9.) Claaprari; Behari P....,.--..Bauri, (m.), 37, HAULAGE-(20 tl&Jth&). llll 12th January, Ledo Valley mine, ~m Bailwaya and Kaln Sekh, (m.), 27, Coal Deceased appeared from eviden"" to h&•e been riding on a fnll eat of tnha Ullbr.own. tlargberota P. o., Ttading Co., Li. Guata·~ Fatal Accidents, 1917 -contd. - Name, se:r, age aad Name of mloeral Seri•1 Dab and hour of aeeldeot. Name and altuation of mloe, Name of OWDer, occupation l wroaght. C&QJC of aecicfcot and roouub, number, of poraon killed, ------·- HAULAGE-(contd.) ' - 122 9th Feb1·uary, Ledo Valley Weot mine, Asoam Railwayo and Parbhn Karmi, (m.), sa, Coal Deoeased, whilst lowering a loaded tub down a slight grade, allowed the tub to 3·30P.lll, Margberita P. 0., Trading Co., Ld. Tub·pusker. run over his foot. He die I in hospital two montho later. Inspection and Asoam. inquiry made. • 123 21st February, Sowardih mine, Sowardih Coal Co., Ld. Baidyanath Singh, alias Coal Whilst a train of six loadei tubs wa. being h •nled np a grad.' of 1 in 2!, live 10·30 P.!ll. Bhujudih P. 0., Bodi Singh, (m.), 32, tubs ran wild. Deceased, who were crossing th-e line 280 feet below, were Bihar and Orissa. TufJ-ckeclcer ; knocked down and killed, The break away wae probably dne to a coupling Jugal Mahato, (m.), 25, pin not having been pushed home. Inspection and inquiry made. Hook.onan. 124. 1st March Tikak mine, Asoam Railways and Jongbir l.o!lar, (m·), 2R, Coal The deceased wae working as a hool 126 17th April, Sham pur mine, Shampur Co•l Co., Ld. Moti Gorain, (m.l, 17, Coal • While tramming a loaded tnb on a love! road, deceased r<•ceived a flesh wound on midnight, Mugma P.O., Trolle!l man. his left big toe. Septic poisoning supervenodland the toe was amputated. He Bihar and Orissa. '••'I ;· then refased farther medical treatment. Septic poisoning again supervened . and he died sixteen days later. Inspection and inquiry made • 127 15th May, South Alknsa mine, Raniganj Coal Association Lakhan Singh, (m.), SO, Coal , Whilst deceased wae riding on.the laot tub of a train of eight loaded tubs, which ll P. Ill. Kuetore P. 0., Ld. Tub·runnsr. wasrnnningdown a. grade of I in 30, three othe~ tubs broke away from a Bihar and Odssa. siding and overtook him. He was crushed between the colliding tubs and oustained a fracture of the skull, to which he succumbed two boursl•t.r. In•pection and inqoiry made. 128 25th May, Angarpatra mine, Union Coal Co., Ld. Kirteebae Baru·i, (IJ.I.), 25, Coal • Deceased, who was walking on the haulage' Nad, was pinned against the side 11 •· II. Katra•garh Jl. 0., MiT~M. by a runoway tub, which beoamr derailfl9. He sustained a compound fracture Bihar and Orissa. of the right· leg at the thigh and died J;hree hours later. Inspection 1>nd inquiry made. (See Report, pa!Je 11.) . , 129 4th June, Khool mine, North Western Railway Hussaina, {m.), 112, Coal•. Deceased wao'a bellman employed on a steep haulage road. Owing to a mistalre ll.&.ll. Khost P. 0., Bellm.,., on the part of the Banksman, two trams ran wild down the road and strack Baluchistan. deceased. He received injuriea which terminated fl>t•lly. Inspection and inq oiry made. ; .• • l.so 27th .t nile, saltor. mine, Saltore .Coal do., tci.. ilhigoo Ray, ( m.), ao, Coal An empty tub became detached from~ set, while being towered oo &ll. ellgine plane. It was derailed at a. junction and in cJTerW.roing struck deceased. He 6 •· J(. Diohergarh P. 0., Tro!le!Jll""'· Bihar and Orissa. died from hia injuriea the next day. Inspection a~d inquiry made. 131 30th June, Jharia. Kbas mine, Staudard Coal Co., Ld. Ram Baran Kurmi, (m.), Coal • Deceased was walking out. of the min;, ~p fh·n haulage incline, behind a set of 4, p, M. Jh.ria P. 0., 32, Line mistr"Jj. six tnbs, whea the rope broke and the tubs ran back uport him. He was Bihar and Orissa. killed instantly. Inspection and inquiry made. 132 17th .July, Dumarkunda. mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Fuchu Bawri, (m), 24, Deceaaed, in attempting to mount a set of tubs in motion, fell under th• leadin~ 6-4ii P.M. Barokar P. 0., Underground tub. He was dragged along the groun:J, and l'eceived injuries whioh provei Bihar and Orisoa. trammer. fatal the following day. Inspection and inquiry made. 133 29th August, Nayadih and North Kusunda and Nayadih Fagn Meah, (m.), 16, Coal • At this colliery it is the prac-tice for an attendant to aceompany the trains of 11 ..... Kusunda mine, Col\eries, Ld. •• RUn" rider. tubs as they travel to and from the underground workings. Such attendant Kusunda P .0., is a 136 16th September, Ba.nsdeopur minP, Bansdeopur Coal Co, Ld. Kodan Meab, (m), 30, Coal • DeceMed was wa.lking out of an incline along the haulage plane, when a set of ~ midnight. Kusunda P.O., Coolie. 6 tubs of ashes was being lowered. A coupling broke and the "set" ran eo Bihar and 01·issa. away. Deceased was ~truck down before he could escape and sustained · serious injuries to the skull. He died on the way to hospital. two hours later. Inspection and inquiry made. 136 18th September, Sitapur tuine, Indian Manganese Co., Jaiwanti Maharani, (fl Ma.ng"nese. As an empty tub was being lowered into an e:rcavation, several coils of the 4·50 P.M. Ramakona P. 0., Ld. 16, rope slipped OI'Or the cheek of the drum. After this alack rope had paid out Central Provinces. Coolie. the sudden stress, when tho tnb was pallad up, broke the rope, the tub then ran wild down the incline, striking deceased and killing her- The drum has sinee been fitted with higher cheeks. 137 ~lot S•pt•mber, Jogta mine, Agabeg Bros. Gadadhar Biswaa, ( m ), 22, Coal Deceased was assisting the trolley men to lift a derailed tab of coal on to the 6·80 P.ll. Sijna P. 0., Contractor's Sircar, line, when the tub ran a short distance backwa1·ds and a wheel Jassed over Bihar and Orissa. his foot. He sustained a. cam.plund fracture of the sma bones of the foot, gangrene developed and he died in hoepital two and a half dayo later, Inspection and inq!liry made. 188 11th December, Sijua mine, Sijua Coal Co., Ld. Gimi Meah, {m), 30, Coal Whilst a train of tnbs waa being lowered on a dip haulage elope, a key fell out of 9 •. ~. bijua P. 0., . Hook man. one of the croas heads of the haulage engine and the engine g::ot out of B;har and Orissa. conhol. Deceased appears to have been near the crossing at one of the landing places, ready to -assist the ·tub!J in rounding the 'Prve. He was crosbed againat the side of the rood by· the tabs and killed on the apot. Inspection and inquiry made. 189 26th December, Burra-Ohem"~ mine, &rra-Dhemo Coal Co., Sreemati Mejbinn, {f.\, 16, Coal Deceased was travelling on a haulage road whil8t the rope wa.e in motion. In 9 p,J(, Sitarampur P. 0., Ld. CotJl·carrier. attempting to cro3s the road to seek the shelter of a manhole, f:be waa Bengal. knocked down by the set. She received injuries which terminated £.tally 32 hours later. Inspection and inquiry made •. APPENDIX 11--comd. Fatal Accidents, 1917-contd. ..O'!al Name, lh:, age and Name of ~laeral DQlll.bor, Date u4 boar ot aeoideot. Jfamt and dtaatiou of DliDo, )luo.e ofowacr, occupation 'WJ'Gqb&. Caue of acoldent and remarkJ. of peNOn kUleli, I 1------. SUNDRIES UNDERGROUND-(16 death•.) 140 9th February, Kendwadih mine, · East Indian Coal Co., Ld. Domni Mejhian, (f.), 20, Coal Deceased was standing looking on whilst two miners, standing on l!ltools, were 6 ..... (Kuo·kend Section), Ooal·carrier. cutting roof ooal. A piece of oos.llargPr than uanal was brought down. and Kusunda P. 0., being startled, she ran back, and oollided with the corner of a pillar of cool. I Bihar and Orissa. She sustained a rupture of the spleen and died about two boors later Inspection and inquiry made. 141 13th March, Banajora mine, Banojora Coal Co., Ld. Tallie Mnssalmanin (f.), Coal , Deceased was carrying a piece coal, weighing ahont 40 l!is. out of the mine 6-30 P.l!, llansjora P. 0 ., 3:1, She slipped, lost her balance and fell heavily on her faoe. She sustained Bihar and Oriaa. ooaJ.carrier. serious injuries on the head and died of shock almost instantaneously. \ Inspection and inq niry made. 142 'loth April, Titulmuri mine, Titulmnri Collieries, Ld. Budhan Dosbad, (m.), 16, Coal Decesoed fell a distance of 17 ,feet from a lev~! tramline into a dip gallery. in 6 P,ll, . Sijua P. 0., Bailin9 coolie. which tlocr coal had been e•tracted. He sustalUed a fractund skull and d1ed Bihar and Orisoa. , three and half hours later. Inspection and inquiry made. 14.3 27th April. Sodepur mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Abbiraon Bauri, (m.), 22, Coal Deceased was followil)g his employment as an onsetter, when, from oome 8·16.&.1[, Sitarampur P. 0., On1etttJr. unknown cause, he fell and sustained a fraotu1.. d skull, from the effects of ' Bengal. which he died shortly afterwards. Inspection and inquiry made, 144 22nd May, Sitalpur mine, Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Sewsaran Gope, (m.), 50, Coal Preparatory to repai_ring a l~aking 6" steam pi~e jo~t a prop was set under th 4 P.ll. Dishergarh_ P. 0., Fitter. pipe to support 1t. Wlnle deceased wae ~ehvermg a final blow to the prop, Bengal. the joint failed completely and be •·ece•ved the full foroe of the steam. He was scalded all over the body and succumbed about two hours later. Inspection and inquiry made. (8BB llepOt't, pave 11.) 145 Slat May, Barari mine Eaet Indian Coal Co., Ld. Snkur Meah, (m.), 45, Coal Deceased, contrary to orders, went up into an "opening" in which a mass of 8 .&.II. (J ealgora Section), Coal-cutter, ru·opped roof coal was lying. Several large pieoes of coal rolled doiYII on top Jamadoba P. 0., of him,. killing him, instuntly. Inspection and·ioquiry made. Bihar a.nd Orissa, 146 4th July, Tikuri mine, Katni Cement and Indus· Pir Mahomed Khan,(m.), Limestone Deceased was killed by au electrio shock whilst starting a. motor for pumping 9-10.&.1[. Katni P. 0., trial Co., Ld. 32, I' water in a quarry. Central Provinces. Pump lt:kalasi. 147 27th July, Khost mine, North Western Railway Raja, Singh, (nr.), 26, Coal Deceaoed was struok 1by a prop whicl! fell down a steep haulage road, from th o.ao ..... Khoat P. 0., 7\-am Mtma!.i. tub in which it was being lowered into the' mine. He austoined a fracture Boluohistan. of the skull. He died shortly afterwards. Inspection and inquiry made. !48 30th July, Dishergarh mine, Equitable Coal Co. Ld. Debi Singh, (m,), 56, Co~l Deceased wa.a sitting on a masa.~f-.cast iro~ pipeS in a damp situation,·when a 1·30 ...... Dishergarh p, 0.1 Ooolt., bump oarne over the workings and dislodged a prop carrying a lead sheathed .. Ben~!, · oable. The cable co111e in oontao~ ,..th him and he waa eleotroou'ted on th opot. It wao found that there WIIS"" "dead ~h" on the cable clue to damage caused by the fall -~.f tho pr•11:,. 149 8th August, Khost mine, North W eetern Roil way Roz.li, (m.), 24, Coal Deceaoed wao about to fet into 11o tram otanding at a landing on a oteep hnulage 5 ..... Khost P. 0., Carpenter's Coolie, road, when a piece o atone was heard fnlliLg down the road. In trying to Baluchistan. avoid this danger, he slipped and fell 16,0 feet down the incline. l'nspoction and inquiry made. ' fth September, Cenb·al Kurkend mine, Central Kurkend Coal Co., J uggernath Tori, (m.), 28, Coal Deceased went inside a fenoed goa£ to get coal. Hearing the roof weighting he 160 6 P,J<, Kueunda P. 0., I.d. Ooal-<>utl••· ran into safety and accidentally struck his left leg w1th the roint of hio Bihar aud Orisaa. piok, behind the !knee, severing an artery. He died lOt hours later from heart failure due to hamorrage. Inspeotioa and inquiry made. 151 l 169 21st October, Shampur mine, Shompur Coal Co;, Ld. , Manmatho Nath Mnkher- Coal Deceased· went alone to repair defeeti•e joints in a steam pipe, aitna.ted · in a 8 P,JI[, Mugma P. 0., . jee, (m.), 23, gallery, where a temperature of 112' Farh. was recorded a few dayo afterwards, Bihar arid Orisoa. Fitter. the air bein!!' found very humid. His bndy wae found the following day olo•e to the p1pe line. It was surmised that he was overcome by the heat and dieiof heat apoplexy. Insrection and inquiry mads. 158 2nd December, Ballarpur mine, Sir K&sturchand Daga and Sittaram, (m.), 60, Coal While walking from the bott<>m of the shaft toiVardo' the underground stureo, 7-30 P.ll, Ballarpur P. 0., the Hon'ble Mr. M. B. Mate. deceased's clothing oaoght tire from the open light which he w.. carrying. Central Provinces, Dadahhoy, C.I.E He died sixteen day• later froru the effects of the bums. 154 lOth December, Khost mine, North Westem Railway. Lajwar, (•.), 39, Coal Deceased and anothsr m'ln were railing a tub in a steRp incline, when deceased 3·30 P.K. Khoot P. 0., Banksman. slipped and fell a distance of about ~00 feet and wae killed, · Baluchistan. SURFACE MACHINERY-(3 deaths). 166 15th January, Dhobidih mine, Bengel Giridih Coal Co., Bikoo Ghatwar, (m.), 26, Coal • Deceosed was exoanting some gronnd behind a newly erectecl hanlage Nooa. Giridih P. 0., Ld. .Svrfa oo coolie. engine, which was being put under oteam. The Jlywheel of the engine Bihar and Orissa, burst, and one of the fragments struck him on the baok. He sns!ained a fractured spine and died fonr bonn later. Inspection and inqniry made. 166 19th January, Sodopnr 111ino, · Bengel Coal Co., Ld. Debu Bunr, (m.), 25, Coal , Deceased was in eharga of machinery, driving a screening plant. His S·30 p,H, Sitarampur P._O., Engine driver. clothea were ciJ.nght by a revolving shaft, and he waa crushed between the Bengal. shaft and the iloor of the Eugine·honse. He was killed on the opot. Inspection and inquiry made. 167 SSrd November, Kbost mine, North We1tern Railway , Minkoo, (m.), 1<1, - Coal , Deceased was drawn· into the machinery of a pre•sed fnel factory at the 8·80 P.ll, Khoo>, P. 0., Duat carrier. mine and was killed instantly.. Apparently his clolhee were caught in a Baluohiatan. wheel•haft, SURFACE RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS-(5 deaths.) 168 2bt January, Knonnda Nyadih, K.Lnsd.unda Nyadih Collieries, Bhatu Mia, (m.), ' 18, Coal , Dece&.fiPd was riding on the front of a locomotive, whent due to a aanee not 6·30 ...... (Nyadih Section), mine. Hook•""' de&nitely ascertained, he fell off in front of the engine and was killed out· Kusunda P. 0., right. Inspection and inquiry made. , Bihar and Oriaoa. 109 11th April. Rajhara mine Bengal Coal Co., Ld. Pearl Noonis, (e.), 12, Coal , , Deceased wao acoidentally run over by a locomotive on the colliery tram line 6Mlo Rajhara P 0., COGloal'ri .... and killed. Bihar and Oriaoa. APPENDIX 11-contd. Fatal Accidents, 1917-contd. Narne, sex, age and Serial Date and hour of accident. Name aDd altuatlon of mine, Name of owner. occupation · Name or mln:ral Cause of accident and remarke. aamber. of penon killed, wrought. -----·------l·----~----1------~------~----l------~~------I SURFACE RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS-(5 deaths). -concla.. 160 12th May, Duia mine, Bengal Iron and Steel Co. Fulmoni, (f.) 17, I roo • Deoeased, who was pushing a tub on the mine. tram line ali~ped and was run 6.ur. Manbarpur P. 0., Ld. Oreloader. over by a tub which was following and whtoh was also bemg pushed. Her Bi~ar and Ori•sa. foot was crushed and she died three days afterwards. 161• 4th October, Lahorka mine, Lallorka Coal Co., Ld. J agan Meah, alia• Bah..a Coal • Deceased was pushing an empty tul from the loading wharf tow~rds a 7 P.ll, Katrasgarh P. 0., Meah, (m.), 24, shaft when the tub collided with a loaded tub, running u ncontroll•d m . the Bihar and Orissa, Trolley man, oppo~ite direction. The tub was derailed and he fell with it over a bfl~ge · to the ground, 12 feet below. He lias killed on the spot. InspectiOn and inquiry made. 162 19th December, Barkui mine, Pencb Valley Coal Co., Boora Christian, (m.), 20, Coal , As four• tubs were being drawn up an incline on the surface, deceased was t ...... Pencb P. 0., Ld. Bank•man, noti~ed, to be asleep near the tram line. He waa shouted. to and appare~tly Central Provinces. got confused, as he walked in the fl'ont of the tub!l, whiCh ran over h1m. He died the following day. MISCELLANEOUS ON SURFACE.-(14 dealk•)· 163 lot February, Sudamdih mine, Empire Coal Co., Ld. Makunda Monda), (m.), Coal , Deceaaed was engulfed in a subsidence of the ourfaoe caused by the sodden 2·30P.J<, Bhojudih P.O., 24, Engin•·kkalaiSie. collapse of underground workings. Two other persons we•·• slightly Bihar aud Oriasa injured. Inspection and, inquiry made. 164 20th February, Hpaungdaw mine, Stee! Bros. & Co., Ld. Rahman, (m.), 26, Wolfram Deceased waa picking out ore from a surface outcrop and w•s killed by a block 8 P.M. . 'l'•voy P. 0., Tributor. of earth 4.' X 2' X II', which rolled down and pinned him by the bead. Burma.. 165 29th March, Egane Mine, Foucar & Co., Ld. Nazur Ahmed, (m.), 35, Wolfram Deceased was killed by falling into a pump room from a height of twenty f•et. SSO.l, II, Tavoy P. 0., Firltnan. Burma. 166 5th Apt·il, Widnes mine, High Speed Stool Alloys, Lnm Pan, (m.), 28; Low Wolfram The two decaesed with another man were forming a chamber in a bill aide for 3 P, 11. TavoyP. 0., Ld. Kow, (m.), 30, Charcoa burning charcoal. They formed it too wide and it collapsed and killed them. Burma, burners. The other man waa injured. 167 25th. May, Lutchipur mine, Lutchipur Coal Company, Sha mbhu Bagdi, (m.), 83, Coal }.3Qp,l(, Deceased took refuge during a violent storm in an arch·way at tl•e top of a abaft. Sitarampur P. 0., Ld. Mcuo~ The arch·way waa fenced. The head geer, which wao conatrncted of H. girders Bengal. and stood 35 feet high on a masonry foundation fifteen feet high and was in course of conatraction, was blown over. One of the front legs of the head gear entered the arch .. way and struck deceased, causing injuries, from the effects of which he died li hours later. A woman, who waa also in,the•uph· I way, waa injured and,ber leg., ... amputated. Inspection and inqmry made. 168 7th July, PMbaung mine, Wagon Pachaang Wolfram Choi Tin, (m.), 27, Min,.., Wolfram • Deceased was opening up a new adit on a steep face and wao found dead 40 feet 3P, M, Tavoy P. 0., Mines, Ld. · belo10 his "'orking pi!"'•• The ~ause of deotb is u ~kno'l"n, . Barilla~ I I . 169 21st August, Hlaygadaung mine, Hanclancl Akbar Sha . N , Ah. Foke, (m.), S9, Wolfram Deceased fell down a steep hill side and reoeived injuries resulting in death. 10 ... ll. Tavoy P. 0., gooli•. Burma. ... 170 5th September, SeramKur mine, E. I. Railway Company Sadik Meab, (m.), 26, Coal • Deceased wao cleaning a boiler and was holding an electt·ic portable lamp in his 1 P, ll. Giri ihP. 0., Dri1•cr. ~Minds for lighting purposes. One of the lamp holder connections csme Bihar and Orissa. undone and came in contact with the flame of the lamp, giving him a shook of 250 volts and killing him instantly. ' 171 2ncl October, Hermyingyi mine, Hermyingyi Mining Co., Chong-· Fook, (m.), SO, Wolfr.m A gang was sluicing, when exceptionally heavy rain began to fall. They stopp•d 12·30 P,M, 'J1avoy P. 0., Ld. Tribute sluicing coolie. sluicing and started cleaning up their box. Dec{ased was raking into the , Burma. head of the box, stooping down, when the working foce gave way and a rook, weighing about a ton, roBed on him. This roak cn.me from a spot about 20 feet from deceased and from a vertical height of 12 feet. The fall of earth, and the faot that deceased did not hear or see the slip coming towards bim, was probably due to the abnormal rain that was falling at the moment. • 172 11th Ootober, Hermyingyi mine, Hermyingyi Mining Co., Po Lee, (m.), 4", Wolfram Deceased was killed by a tree, which was being felled and whioh fell prema· 10·30 ... ll. Tavoy P.O., Ld. · 1.'reej'•ller. turely. Burma. 173 21ot October, Suda.mdih mine, Sudamdih Coal Company, Deonatb Bsrhi, (m.), 45, Coal , Deceased was drowned in a fencea boiler tank. It is presume~ that he went 10 p, ... Bbujudih P. 0., Ld. · FiremQ,IJ, there to wash and overbalanoed. The tonk was 50' X 30'x 10' de•p, and the Bi bar and Ol'issa, temperature of the water w•• 110° F. Ins~ection and i~quiry made. 17-l 29th October, Pagaye mine, Bombay Burma T1·ading Mg. Hpo Hte, (m.), 30, Wolfram Deceased went to work in an abandoned working place and was killed by a mass S P. 11. l'avoyP. 0., Company, Ld. 1. ributor cooli•. of earth, which fell on.him. Btuma. 176 19th December, Zimba mine, Burma Minerals, Ld, Ah Tyo, (m.), 26, Wolfram Deceased was killed by a falling tree, whiob he with three others were in tho 10·30 P. 11, Tavoy P. 0., Coolie. act of felling. Burma. APPENDIX 11-contd. Fatal Accidents, 1917-contd.' Name, lot, age and Beason I Name of mineral lor Cautio of acotdent and romark1. Sorl~ nnmbn IDolo and honr of accident. Name ond ollnation of mine, Name of owner. occuplltiOn wrought. es.olnaion. I' l of person killed, DEATHS NOT INCLUDED IN THE STATISTICS.-(30 deaths). I Not a mining Deceaeed committed suicide by jumping into a well. The well was 26th J auuary, Bbowra mine, Eastern Coal Co., Ld. Sukru Ylejhian, (f.), Coal , 5-30 P.l!o Jamedoba P. 0., I 22, accident. fenoed. Inspeotion and inquiry made. Bihar and Oris,.; Oo~l ca1'ri01'. 2 24th January, Cha.snalla. mine, Lodna Colliery Co., Ld.' • Gogla Beldar, (m.), S . Coal • , Not employed Deceaaed fell into a tank, 2' 6' deep, and was drowned. lnapection 9 P.H. Bhujudih P. 0., and inquiry made: Bihar and Odssa. 3 26th January, Choitodih mine, Lutohipnr Coal cd., Ld. Ashu Meah, (m.), 45, Coal • Not a mining Deceased was crossing t]le Railway line, while em:pty wagons wer~ being 2·40 P.ll[, Katraogarh P. 0., Miner. accident. brought in. He was knocked down by a movmg wagon and died two Bihar and Orissa' days afterwards from the injuries received. 4 28th February, (Doongree) Jamadobamine, Tala Iron and Steel Co., Sadai Kurmi, (m.), Coal , Not a mining Deceased, whilst oroseing the line between two stationar:r wagons, with 6 P.K. Jam"doba P. 0., Ld. 18, aocideut. which another moving wagon came into oontact, was crushed between Bihar and Orissa. Line coolie. the buffers. He sustained eerioua internal injudes and died about half an hour later. Inspeotion and inquiry made. 5 9oth Ma>·ch, J oyra.mdanga mine, New Beerbhum Coal Co., Madhuria Turin, (f.), Coal • • Not employed ueoeased fell into a well, while drawing water, and was drowned. In· 7-30A,ll[. Asansol P. 0., L~ lL spection and inquiry made. Bengal. .6 1st April 1917, un- Khona Konda mine P. K. Chatterjee Unknown, Coal • . Not employed Deceased's body was found 8oating on the SUJ•face of'some water known. or J otejanaki mine, (f.), 36. standing in an abandoned shaft.. The shaft top was· unfenc10d. In Topusi P. 0., opeotion and inquiry made. • · Bengal. 7 7th April, Sonalibad mine, Ramjash Aga1'Walla Parbat.ia alia• Laoh· Coal , r\ot a mining Deoeased W&B found in a dying condition lying near the entrance to an 3 A,ll[, Jharia P. 0., mania M UB!IIuuin, accident. opening cntting, which was fenced. l'here were wounds upon her Bihar and Orissa. lf.), 20, head, !ega and tbigh, and her leg w .. fractured. She died six hours Coal carr,·cr. later from internal injury. In all prob•bilrty she crossed the fenoe during the night and fell into the cutting. Inspection and inquiry made. 8 16th May, Jinagora mine, East Barari Co<~ I Co. Ld. , J ama;,i Rajwar, (f.), Coal • , Not em played Deceased fell into an old quarry, oontaining water a'bout 20' fl' deep, 5 ~.:![. Jharia P. 0., 7. and was drowned. Inspection and inquiry made. Bihar and Orisso. 9 19th May, Ba.manba.nd mine, Bamanband Coal Co. Ld. Unkmown, Coal • N'ot employed :beoeaaed's body was1ound 8oating in an abandoned ehaft, which was in• unknown. Chora P.'o., (m.J, s;;. completely fenced. Inspectien and hlqniry made. Bengal. 10 20th May, J.akorka mine, Lakorka Co~! Co., Ld. Aupa Kol, (m.), 30, Uoal Not a mining Whilst swil!lming in an W11ter-logged quarry, used for bathing purposeo, 9 P.M. Kfltrasgarh P. 0., Coal cutter. accident. · deceast!d became entangled ii weeds and was drowned. lnspcctior. Bih n· and Orissa. and inquiry made. 11 27th May, Tirody South mine, Cenhal Provinces Pros· Motl!al, (m.), 7. Manganese Not employed A miner, not knowing deceased. was lyir.g down below, worked away some 2P,M. Tirody 1'. 0., peeling Syndicate, Ld. ot·e at1d two atones, measuring 6q X 6'-' X 4", struck dtJcPased, who die,t Central Provinces, eight hours afterwards. 12 1st June, Singaram mine, Singaram Coal Syndicate • Hopni Manjhian, (f.), Coal Not employed A JTiece of coal, measuring 2' X 1' X 0' 6' thick, fell fl'Om a height of 5 ..... · Toposi P. 0., 3, . 1 ·feet in a gallery upon deceased, who waa playing Bear her grand- llengal. mother, and killed her outright. Inspection and inguiry made. . 13 11th June, Sudamdih mine, Sud11mdih Coal Co., Ld. Lalu Bauri, (m.), 2!, Coal • Not employed Deceased fell into a boiler tank, containing 6'-0' of water, and wa• n ...... tlhujudih P. 0., drowned. Inspection and inquiry made. Bihar and Ori•sa. ' 14 ilrd Jnly, Alkusa (N' orth) mine, Raniganj Coal Aaaosiation, J ainath Lodh, (m.), 4, Coal • , Not employed A coal mhter, on his ret\Ull fr0111 work, bl'Onght with him a caniater 4 P.M. Knsnnda P. 0., Ld. containing a cartrid~e of country gun-powder. He left the canister Bihat• and Oriasa. in the verandah and •ntered his hut. Shortly after there was an explo· sion, and, rushing out, he found his son, the deceased, near the opeo canister. The child waa severely burnt and died on the following day. Inspection and inquiry made. 16 , 6th July, Hermyin~yi mine, Hermying)i Mining Co., Lazur, (m.), 48, Wolfram Not a mining Deceased was killed by a tree, which fell on to the cooly lines in whioh l-80 A.M. Tavoy . 0., r.d. Coolie, accident. h• was sleeping. · Burma. en 16 4th August, Damagllurtia mine, DamaghmTia Coal Co., Ld. Bowl ~anji, (m.), 16. Coal Not employee! Deceased attempted tn board a train of 16 empty tuba in motion, when "" 9·80 ... u. Kulti P.O., he misR&d his foothold and fell between two tubs and wns run over. Bengal. He died from his injuries two dayo later. Inspection an.! inquiry made. .. 17' 8th Auguot, Sudreadih mine, J ainnrai n Ramjaah Agar- Gaya Dos·•dh, (m.), 7. Coal Not employed Deoeaaed was drowned in a boiler feed water t~nk, the fencing of which 7 ..... Nnwagarh P. 0., walla. , was in disrepair. Inspection and inquiry made. Bihar and Orissa. 18 11th August, Golukodih min•, N. M, Chowdhmy & Co., Amba Bhuiya, (m.), 8, Coal Not a mJnmg Dece,.ed whilst at play, on an East Inian Railway oidiug, wao rna over 8 A.M. .Jhn.ria P. 0., . Loading cooli~. aeoident. during hand shuntiog operations, and auatained injuries to which h~ Bihar and Ori-aa. auccnmbed in hospital a few hours later, Inspection and inquiry made. ~ lO 11th August, Sata.k mine, Central India ltiniog Co., Snnderia, (f.), 6·6. Manganeoe Not employed Deceased was found drowned in a fenced pit. 2 P.J<, Kampteo P. 0., Ld. Central Province• 10 2tlth August, Slnid ih mine, Sinidih Coal Concern Megwa ~huiya, (m.), Coal , Not employed Dece&Red was tlaying in the shade beneath an East Indian Railway 8·15 P.M. Katr&Rgarh P. 0 .. o, wagon, whic his parent. were loading with coal. A second wagon was .Bihar and Orisas. pushed againot the wagou, and the impact moved the latter a few feet, The child was atruck on the head by the under frame, and killed Gil. the spot. Inspection and inquiry made. ~1 19th 5eptember, Fari"'t"ur mine, Poniati Coal Concern Biawanath Manjhi, Not a mining While an empty wagon was being bend shunted on a siding, it collided 8·45 P,M, Charanpur P. 0., (m.),46. with another wagon aud deceased was caught between the bullera and t.: aooident. Bengal. .Sirdu.r. j~ crushed to death. Inspection and inquiry made• APPENDIX 11-concld. Fatal Accidents, 1917 -concld. I . Name, so:.:, age and Be aeon Name of mineral/ Cause of accident and remarks. So rial number. Date and hour of aociden t. Namo aDd sltuallon of mine. 'Name or ownor. occupation wrought, ,., I of person killed. exclusion. I I I DEATHS NOT INCLUDED IN THE STATISTIOS.-(30 deaths). 22 24th September, EgArcoor mine, New Chirkunda Coal Co •. Punia :Bhemin, (f.), Coal Not employed Deceaeed was run over by a loaded tub while croseing a surface tram• 11 A,H. Mugma P. 0., 2}. line, and killed inetantaneouoly. The tub was running uncontrolled on . :Bihar and Orissa . a grade of 1 in 24. Inspection and inquiry made. 23 26th September, Kanbouk mine, Kanbauk (Burma) Wolfram Yan Tee Chaung, (m.), Wolfram Not a mining Deceaeed was drowned in an old excavation, llAH. 'l'avoy P. 0., Mineo, Ld. 89, acoident. Burma. Coolie. 2-1 27th September, Jotejanaki mine, P. K. Chatterjee Gonri Kori, (f.), 35. C·>al Not employed Decessed'• body wao found Boating in a feed water tan~. As s~e unl:nown. Toposi P. 0., was subject to epileptic fits, it is surmised that she had a se•znre while Bengal. bathi.ng. Inspection and inquiry made. 25 lOth October, Ganhudih mine, Sosi Bhusan Banerjee Josada l'laloio, (f.), Cool Not employed Deceased, whilst suffering from depression, due to illneso, ~umped ioto 2 P.M. Jharia P. 0., 85. an old water·logged shaft and·was drowned. Inspection and inquiry Bihar and Orissa. made. 0) 0 116. 17th October, Isabella mine, Isabella Coal Co. Fagni Bhuiyoni, (f.), Coal ~ r Not emph;ycd Decea 28 27th Novembe1·, Moheshpur mine, M. K. Khanna Mahabal Singh, (m.), C.oal Not a mining The. mine office oaught fire and deceaaed was burned to death. 44.1[, Katrasgarh P. 0. 33, aocident. Bihar and Orissa. Overman. 29 8th December, Aw1a.jeri mine, Messrs. Byramji Pestonji J ungan, (f.), 23. Mangane~e Not emplo)•ed receaaed fell into a mine, which was full of water, and wao drowned. 6·30 .... )!, Balaghat P. 0., &Co. Central Provinces. oo 28th December, Taungpih. mine, Quah Cheng Guan Lum Wah, (m.), 24. Wolfram Not a mining Deceased, while d1·awing water ~rom a well, overbalanced and wa lOP,H. Tavoy P. 0., aooident. drowned. Burma. I \ . ' . ~ 61 APPENDIX II •. Table No.2. Statement of fatal and serious accidents in and about mines regulated by the Indi!\n Mines .Act, 1901, durin'g the year 1917. FATAL ACCIDENTS. BEBIOUB ACCIDENTS, t DBATn•IU.TB PJIB 'll NVliBKa o• 1,000 ••••o•• :;;i- NvxBEB o• ~ ll».Pl.OYBDo ~ PBJIBO.NS S&BlOUBL% a~ DBA.TBI, IMJUII.BD. PJIOVJlfCB, District and mineral field. g'l! ~~ .,; ~3 .,; .,,; t.2' ~~ .. !.S ~ ~ .. ... 01i ou e ~ ~ .! ta =~ "lil ~ .. $-.;.. i 1 f ~~ ! i &:lt-d' .. ~~ a;; ~ t • ~ 'ii j;;l,e j ~= .. "a! ;§0.!. ~ ~~ :z.·- "' :!l ~ ,:;- i :!l .. .. ~! A.-COAL. ( Lakhimpur 2,579 18 24 24 77 78 so 1S·2? 9·81 .Auam ·i NagaHills 384 2 2 l Sibsaga1· 28 ------TOTAL 2,941 18 24 24 79 74 8 82 12-45 8·16 ( Kalat • . 125 ,. Loralo.i, Lora.lai 18 2 2 200·00 .... 111'11 .B&luchist&n .~ . I Quett&, Pis~in l Sib~ Khost, _;~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~--;4 8··~6 8·19 TOTAL 955 I' 7 8 4 4 '· '11·58 2·s7 s·s8 _r Bankura, Raniga.nj 100 .. I 1lengal ·~ Birbhum 32 ... I .L Burdwan 38 453 29 32 3 35 36 82 7 89 1•33 ____:!!.. ~ TOTAL 3:.585 --;--;Ia ~ ~ -; --7 -; 1•88 •21 ·91 ·-'------r-l-----r-n-.k-.-,.-.-- ---·------.------~------1--- 1 Romgarh 4,170 2 1 1 I 1 2 1 Hazaribogh ·i Giridih • ~.916 2 17 ' 14 3 17 '29 ·so lJhoria • 948 2 2 4 3• 4 1•76 2·62 2·11 IMa.ubhum, Jharia. 79,452 59 61 69 55 38 19 .57 I 1•23 •27 •87 : dJihar and Orissa d Ranigauj 8 8 5 1-79 ·89 9,010 I I Palamau, Daltonga.nj 862 1 2 2' 2'61 1•16 Samb&lpnr., Hingir-Rampur 542 • Sonthal Parganas, Jainty t Raniganj :: : I . ·, -----.------~------/-1·------T_o_T-AL-- 105,910 ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~ _·2_7 -·-78- Chanda, Ballarpur • 1,192 2 2 2 5 7 7 298 1•68 Chhindwars, Pench Valley 1,680 7 8 8 7 1 8 5·53 2'41 4•76 ~entml Provinces .,r I I Naraingbpur, Mohpani 1,357 2 8 1'22 L Yeotmol ------16 _ .._. _ ...___ ...___ ...___ ...___ ...__ .._. 1-..::.:...... _._.. __._ .. _ TOTAL ,...., ______, ______------10 10 11 16 15 __3 18 I. ___ 3·68 •67 2·69_ lrort.h-West ~ Frontier Hazara 14 I t-Prc_•i_n•_•·-----l~------l----·· ___... ___... _~_ ... _1_._.. ______.._·_.---r--r--- 1 Jhelum 885 2 2 1 I 8·31 2'40 an jab .[ ...... " ...... - -j··· -~- ...... ------l~!·G-Sh-:-~-pu_:_T_O_T_.A._L_(:-:-:-,--:-I--~-5-::-:-: ~ -~ ·~ ~ ~ ~ ~" I'~I: ~I :: 62 _APPENDIX 11-contci. _...._ ___ .;..,.. Table No, 2-contci. Statement of fatal and serious accidenta in and abo ut mines regulated by the lndinn Mines Act, 1901. during the year 1917-contd. - FATAL ACCIDENTS, SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. i DB.lTK•BJ.TU ~"•• 'll Nvxnn o• 1,000 PBJIIOK& tb NuKnsa o• .BBIOifl BJl:IIOVBJ.% BU.LODio DB.l':rKBo ~ 9i IlflV&BD. Paon•e~•. i:i Dlatrlc\ and mineral fteld. •'ll ... .,; .,; .,; ,...; •r;- =~ § .. ~ ~ .g 'li e-a. 'O'g H a~ •il •S ~ ~ 'll-a 1!3 t. ~ =~ t. 1 ~ ~ - l 1 4i ~ ~ -e~ ~ ~t ~i c.:l .. .8 l l :.s ~ j ll~l ..,ii .. " .. .. i .. .. t ... ·- iil .. ""'... B.-MICA. rBbagalpur • 14 I Gaya • 2,511 Bihar and Ori"a • • ~ Hazaribagh • 12,499 3 3 2 s -39 Mongbyr • 1,106 l Sambalpur 122 ------16,252 s 8 8 8 1 4 ·SO •18 ------1 ·------j·-'-----j--·1------( Nel\ore 3,739• 2 2 2 2 ·70 Mad1110 'L Salem 163 1 ------ToT.u. 2 -----·J------+---1--3,892 2 ------2 8 8 8 •69 ' ·&1 • [ Ajmer·Merwara 371 Bajpntana L Beawar 14 I , ------r------. ------385 ------j------1------GBAND TOTAL (IIIIOA) 20,529 6 5 7 6 '1 •38 --'------'-----L--1------C.-MANGANESE, B_o_m_b_•_Y ______• 1 _~_•_no_h_M_•h_•_l_• _____ ~ _ .._. _/--=- _. _.._. ___.. _._, __s ___ 1___ a_~~_ .._. ___.._·_ ( Balaghat 6,145 1 I I Bhandara 540 ::: I 1 1 Contl'al P1·ovinoes. • ~ Chhindwara , 2,069 - 1 •1 2 2 2 •61 •48 I Jabalpur 13 LNagpnr ~ _._.._ --- __... _ --_.. _. ___.. ___.._.- __.. _. ___.._- ___.. _. ___.._.- TOTAL 12,897 4 •10 ·08 ------1------Madras • Viugapatam .· 203 ------1------~ ------GRAND TOTAL (MANGANBBB) 13,978 7 6 7 •09 •07 D.-LIMESTONE. -----~--c--- Coutml Province• Jabalpur-Xatni l,'i97t 11 1, .. , 11 ·75 ·5~ ------1------~~1·------'----'---'---'------E.-SALT. ( Jhelnm 916 6 1 I 3 Panjab • ~ Mianwali 1 89 ... I L Shahpnr •r . 92 .. : ... I ...... I ...... J---~-- --- . 1- ____._ GRAND TOTAL !SALT) 1 1,oo7 ...... I ... · .:. s -a-,--a~--5 . ... - ... - ... --~---_ -- F.-GEMS. Burma • • Mogok (Rubiu, etc.) 1 245 • 2 2 , I 1 ... I .,. I ... I 1 I ... • Includes labour figures for Ccntl'al Province~, Fullen Earth. f lucludee labour figurea for Mndraa, Samarekite. 63 "\~----- Table No, 2-oontd. Statement of fatal and serious accidents in and about w,ines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, during the year 1917-contd. FATAL ACCIDENTS. SERIOUS .&CCIDBNTB, t DU.TH•U'l'. PR8 "il ],00() PBBBOBI NUWIBB o• Blll'LOJ"Uo Nvvnaov I'BIIOlfl 8BB101JIL'I' ]~ i DJU,TB!I, s-a UI'JIJ'BBD. Paovuroa. Diatrict and mineral fteld. .., f~ ·~ ] .,; ~~ ~1 ~ ::! -= ~ Jl ~i il. 2 "'u [ ; g&.c .. .. "' 1l i l ~~ ~~ ~ j ~-a]" t .. ... J ~ ~ ! i ~ Bihar and Orissa • lllonghyr 161 Gurdaapur 11 Panjab • Gurgaon 143 { Kaugra 306 -----'------!------~----I----- TOTAL ·460 ••• ..• I ...... ·...... _··_·------~I-G-R_A_N_D_T-OT_A_L-(S_L_A-TB_)_·!--6-1...:~-~ -----1~1------___ ---___- ... I ... ==-- li--GOLD. Bhar and Orilll& Singhbhum Madra& Auantapur . 1.:::.1--=; -=;I~--=;~~~~ 8·21 ___ • 8-96 I-G-R_A_N_D__ TO_T_.!.L_(_G_OLD-) --l--1-,8-8_7_ --7-~ ... 7 11 8 81 11 7·69 I ... 3·71 1 ------I------I I.-IBON OBE. ------~-- (Puri. 22 j·-- Biha.r and Orieaa { • L Singhbhum 1,676 1 . .. 1 I 1 2 ... 2 2 ... 2·04 ~-68 TOTAL ~ --1---..-.- --1-~--1---2-~ --2-~--~---..-.- 1·95 •08 ------1------l------~----r------r---1 Jtajputana A.jmir-llle1-wora • - • ...... ·I --· .\ ...... I ...... "' ,_G_R_A_N_D_T_O_T_A_I_. -(lB-ON_O_BB-)I--1-,6-0-6-I---11~ ~--1-~--1 --2 I~ -2- 2 I~ 1·96 I •62 J.-WOLFRAM. IJihar and Orisaa • Singhbhnm 37 r-· 1 I ... 1 1 ...... 27·08 ------~1------'---1--- --·------r Mergui : 1:- 2: 1: ~ Burma ·i Tavoy 8,::: 11~ --~0 --~1 2: ~:;1 :::: :::: l Tbotou 1,018 TOTAL 10,339 19 -;~--;---;-~;---; ~ 1·77 1·071----;-. -I-G-R_A_N_D__ TO_T_A._L __ (_W_o_L_··J--1-0,-87-6-I--20 ~~-----;-~I-;-----;---; ~-89 2·171 202 ~, ----~-----~~-- K--MAGNESITE. Madrae • Salem 1,316 I~::_!~/_--_· ~~~- 1 ------I---L.-CRROMITE. ----~------ 1 Zhob o• I ...... 1 ... 1 2 ... J 2 ... '" .. · Bn.luchlsta.n . 1 1--,.....- 1 -===-..:...... :~ ------~-r--1 IB-ih_._··_n_d_o,_i.. _· ___ t:·~, ~n~") : :-:::---.:.- --·::-~----.::-1---·-, \-···_21 _:::-~-----, ~~~:1 _..:_- • lncludealabour figures for 1tfatlraa, Silver. 64l ·APPENDiX U-contd. Table No, 2--<>onc!d. Statement of fatal and serious accideats in and about mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, during the year 1917-concld. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS, DJU.TD:•BA.Tlf PBI NvuBB:RoJI 1,000 PBRSOlf& Blll'LOl:BD. l>li:B80lf8 SSBIOUBLY UI'JVBBD. "' Diatrlet and lllineral fleld. Bihar and Oriua Singhhhnm N.-BAUXITE. Central Province& Jabal pur 46 I ... l ... I ... I ... _____.... __ __!._~--11----1------ 0.-CLAY. 282 1 1 ... 1 ...... • ... 8·00 ... 4·81 { Manbhnm I Bihar and Oriesa Palamau TOTAL ~~ ~~~ :~-=-- : ~. j... ~:~3 ,..-- -- Central Provinces Jabalpnr 288 ...... ••• ...... ------1------..,..----1--~------c------Delhi Delhi, . 000 I ... __5_8_5-+1--1-'-1--1-'1--- .. -'-~---1 --~- --1---..-.- --1 -2---63---..-.- -1--7-l- GRAND TOTAL (CLAY) ____l__!. ___ !___L ___ ! __ ------1-- P.-GALENA. Central Proriucea Drug 20 I ··· I ... I .., I ... ______.L _ _L_ _:___ ,__ --:---~1- -- - Q.-TIN. Mergui (Maliwen) Bu.rma •I Ta.voy • • LTbaton .: = .:: ·:.L_ :: :: ·:: : :: ::: :: GRAND TOTAL (Tn•) ----;;:--... 1~-.. -1 ... -... -... \-... -... -~-=-~-... R.-STEATITE. ----~-- --~--~ Central Provinces Jaba.lpur 284 / ------1------1----l--1--l-1-~-+l_.._· -!-1_1 J_.._· _.. _. _.. _. _.. _. 5·7~ ... 3·52 Madras Kurnool 191_... I_ ... _... _... _... _... ,~_... __... l=t.... . _R_•_i_p_u_t·-·-·-----·l-~-j·_·•_r-_M_•_rw_•_"'______,___ 15-I-._ .. _!I_.. _·-J-_ .. _· J._·_··_ ~--·-· ~~_.._·_ ~ _._.. _1 ...... GRAND TOTAL (ST:UTITB). 818 I 1 I 1 I ... I l ... ..~ _ ...___ ..._ 5·241,-, ... I~ B.-YELLOW OCHRE. f ... -~--~-~cl~-=--·r.---J- ... 1292\:x;- as so• 1·ao ~~ 65 APPENDIX 11-:-co!'td• Table No.3, Statement of fatal accidents in mines regulated by tg,e Indian Mines Act, 1901, d~Ying the year 1917, classified according to the age and sex: of the workers. NUMBER OF DEATIIS, :Bnow G.IOUI'D. I'JJJIBBJ.4o PBOVIlfCB AlfD HINBRAL ~IBLD, i ~ ; ..= .~ .. '0 l J 1 i j j i i :a~~ j;: :a! i~ ------1 ------1-~-- _l___..._ -"--~- ! _l__ _L_~_ .. r Assam, La.khimpur ', 18 24 ...... 24 ...... 24 I 11------1------1 ---- ' .ILoralai 1 2 ...... 2 ...... I I Baiuchistlln I I l Sibi, Khoat .6 5 ...... 5 1 ...... 1 6 I ------1------ TOTAL BALUCHISTAN 7 7 7 8 1------'------Bengnl; Ra.nigo.nj 29 27 5 ... 32 8 ...... 8 85 ------~-.------ I ('Palamau, _])altongtlnj 1 ...... 1 ...... 1 1 I .. 1Giridih 2 1 1 ... 2 1 ...... 1 s Bihar I I 2 1 1 2 o"~d Jhnria, Hazaribagh ...... 1 1 ... I rJssa. 1 _ ... CoMo . . . . ~ \ Jharia, :Ma.nbhum 59 51 9 1 61 8 ...... 8 69 I l Ma.nbhutn, Ra.nigag.j • 8 8 ...... 8 ...... 8 ' I I ', rcband& • Central Provinces ~I Chhindwan • 7 7 7 1 8 ' . I I LNarainghpur 1 1 ...... 1 ...... I ... I ------1 1--- 1 "'"' ,_,u _ _,, WI w w , ... •. ~ n _ , li-P-u-.j.-b.-J-h.-,u-m--~-~--.-: ~r-=- 2 1--- -- ToTAL CoAL 188 181 15 1 147 16 .... I ... 16 163 66 Table No. a-ncld. Statement of fatal accidents in mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, during the year 1917, classified according to th~ age and ~ex of the worket·S-concld. · NUMBER OP DEATHI. f i ABOVB QKOUND. ! ~ Paonw011 A.•» •••••.u. .I:ILD• s s 5 ~ I i ~ t ! • i ; '; ! ~ = .i - • .i 1:1 .... Q) • ~ ! ~ ~ ~ i ~ i ~- ~ i .. --~------ri-B-iha-.--••-d_o_n- ....-.-H-•_oan_·_b_ag_h_-1-....:::..._s+--'--s ~ -"-~ _ .._~~~~ : ~- Mto~ • 'li-M-o-dru-.-N-ol-lo-re------l---2 --2 f--- -·_' ~~·· I_·_··-= TOTAL Ml~ 6 6 6 li 1--1·--l------1----- lll.&l ----,1-----~------ LIKISTONB • Cont.ral Pronnceo, Jabalpur 1 1 ------'"-1______:_ ___ ------ Central Provinceo, Jabolpur 1 1 ------1------1------ GOLD , • 1\!adr&~~, Anantapur 7 7 7 7 ------1------1---1--1--1------1------ IDo• Oaa • · • Bihar and Orisu, Singbbhum • ______, ______, ___ -1------____. --- Mergui 1 WOLPBAK • Burma .{ Tavoy 18 10 10 9 9 19 ---1------·------_..___ TOTAL BtrBKA ~ ro ro ro ~ ro 1------1·--1--1------ Bihar and Orisea, S!ughbh•m , 1 J------1------TOTAL WoLPBAll , . 20 10 10 11 11 -21 CL'-Y ..• , Bihar and Orissa, Manbburu _____ ..:...__ GRAND"lOTAL (ALL 1\!INER!LS) 176 67 APPENDIX 11-•l Table No. 4. Statement of fatal accidents in mines regulated by the Indian Mines Act, 1901, during the year 1917, classified according to caus9 of accident. D:ll.'l'B•U.U ••• 1,000 ftJIIO.IJIKI'LOID. l i 1 I J Coal , 60 34 10 3 4 19 14. 11 169 1'65 •21 1'05 Clay 1 1 1 2•53 1'7'1 1 9"11 Gold 0 7 ron · •. 1 1 1 Limestone • 1 .. I ... 1 1 •75 I 1 • '()9 Manganese • 1 1 ·or ·38 ·24. MioR 5 1 3'14 Steatite 10 21 1•89 2•17 2•02 Wolfram 20 1 11) .68 APPENDIX III. . . ~~r . ..: PROSECUTIONS UNDER ..~~~ INDIAN :MlNES ACT, 1901. ·Statement of prosecutions instituted under the Indian Mines .Act, 1901, during the · year 1917. · . Nnmberof . NuU\bcr Number Numbers of rules and st~ctlons of the Act PBOVIlfCB, DIStrict, of persons RBII:.Qu. prosecutions, prosecuted. _oouvictcd. O~>lltravenod. \ ---- ' rl Manbhum 1 3 2 Section 20, Rule12 of Notification No. ProceediDga 864-68-20, dated lOth :.lat·oh 1904. in1tituted ia I - 1916. Do. 1 2 1 Section 15 (2) of the Indian Mines Act, Ditto. I 1901. - I Do. 1 3 3 Section 20, Rule i2 of Notification No. Ditto. I 86£·68- 20, dated 10tb Maroh 1904. . Do: . }' l 1 Section 20, Rule 1 of Notification No. 11793-103, dated 30th December 1908. Do. 1 2 2 Section lS (1), Rule 46 of Notification ..r.··· I ·•· No. 2968-82, doted 21st Aprill906, and Rule 7 of Notification No, 864.·68- I 20, dsted lOth March 1904. ... I .. lJo . I . .2 2, ~oction 20, Rules 3and7of Noli· I firation No. 864·68--2,0, dated loth ' March 1904, and Rule 2 of Noti6oation I No. 11793-103, dated 30th December 1908. I .. I Do. 1 2 1 Section lS (1) t'6ad with Rule 47 of I Notifirat.ion No. 2968-82, dated 2lat I Aprill906...... I Do. 1 2 2 Section 20, Rule 2 of NotifiCllltion No. Jl/93-103, dated 30th December - 1U08, &nd Rule• 2 (b)amll9 of Noti· _Bihar, and Orio~.J fication No. 864-68-20, dated lOth . ., March 1904. · Do. 1 1 1 l:!ection 2,0, Rule 2,0 of Notification No. 864-68-20, dated loth Maroh ; I 1904. - Vo. 1 1 1 Section 20, Rule 1 (c) of Notification No. 864·68-20, dated loth Maroh 1!!04, and Section 13 (1) read with rules I 46 and 47, of Notific•tion No. 2968· I 82, dated 21st Aprill906. · Do. 1 1 1 !'cotion 2(1, Rule 19 of Notification No. I 864·68-20, dated lOth March 1904. I I Do. 1 1 't Section 20, Rule 7 of Notification No. I 864·68-20, dsted lOth March 1904.. Do. 1 lJ 2 Section 20, Hnlee 3, '1 and 19 of I Notification No. 86~-68-20, dated - _ lOth MarchJ.90~. Do. - 1 1 1 Section 20, Rule 12 of Notification No. I 864·68-2,0, dated lOth March 1904. Do. -; 1 1 1 Section 13 (1) t•ea Statement of prosecutions instituted under thA Indian Mines Act., l\101, during the year 1917 -poncld. Nu:o.nber Number Paovil'I'CB. Dlsttirt. ~f of persons N'lmber NumbE'I'I ol rules and st>ctlona of tho Act COD'iicted. contrnvo~oed. R•KUIKI. I prosecutions, prosecuted, , . ------r Burd.w.an 1 1 I Section 20, Rule· 19 of No~i&oation No. I 864-68-20, ~ated 10oh March 1904, I Do. 1 1 1 Ditto. ditto. I Do. I 2 2 Sectinn 20, Rule 12 of Notifioati.>n No. I 86i·68-2u,. dated lOth Mar<·h. 1904. Jlengal . ~ Do. 1 1 1 Seotion 20, Rules 1, 7 and 14, of Notifiration No. 864-08-20, dated lOth March 1904. 1 Do. . 1 1 1 Section 1& (2) and Rule 2 (e) of N otifica· tion No. 864-68-20, dated lOth March I l 1904.. - ,. Do. 1 3 ... :1 Section 20, Rule 1 of NotificP.tion No. Withdrawn. IL &072-113, dated 1st July 1916. • I .Madras Nell ore 1 1 1 Seotion 20, Rule 17 of Notification No.I 6436-1&2, dRted 2nd Se!'tember 1911 1 and Rule 8 of N otitication No. 11793-~ 103, dated 30th December 1908. - . - - I . . . . - I TO APPENDIX IV. MISCELLANEOUS. Statement No. 1. List of Inspection Circles. No.1 Circle. No. a Circle. 1. All mines in Bihar and Orissa except mines in tho 1. All mines in Bengal. district ·of the Santhal Parganas and snob mines in the district of Manbhum as lie east of a line 2. Such mines in Bihar and Orissa as lie in the drawn from mile \75 on the Bengal Ne.gpur district of the Santhal Pal'gahi~S and in the district Railway to mile 169 on tbe Gra.nd Trunk Road of Me.ubhum east of a line drawn froiD mile 175 and continued in a straight line across the district. on the Bengal Nagpur Railway to mile 169 on the Grand Trunk Road and continued in a straigh• 2. All mines in Baluchista.n. line across the distl·ict. 3. All mines in the North· West Frontier Province. 3. All mines in -~ombay. 4. All mines in the Punjab. 4. All mines in the Central Provincea. · 5. All mines in Rajputana. 5. All mines in Madraa. 6 . .All mines in Assam. 6. All mines in Burma. Statement No, 2. List of holders of certificate& os mana~ers of coal mines in British India. (<>) Certilcateo granled to holders of English CertlnCt>tes of competency. FIRST CL&SS. No. of No. of NA.KB. Indian })ate of Indian certificate. English Date of English certificate. certificate. certificate . .. Yon ng, Robert 210 5ih December 1917. 3422 15th June. 1909. 1 (6) Certificate. of competency. FIRST CLASS. N.uur. No. of Date of certificate. ee~tificate. Ruu.axs. I Ill artin, Cyril Laing . 92 4th April1917. \ Carapiet, Gregory George . 93 Ditto. Banerjee, Jad11 Gopal 94 .Ditto. Thompson, John . . 95 Ditto• Ghose, Hrishikesll . . 96 Ditto . Dholakia, Jhaverill\1 K. . . 97 Ditto. Roy, Harish Chandra 98 Ditto. . . F Roy, Upend!"& Nath . 99 Ditto. Pea•·Cfl, Abraham 100 Ditto. 71 APPENDIX IV-eonld. MISCELLANEOUS-contd. Statement No. a~conc!d. List of holders of ce~tifi.oa~es as managers of coal mines in British India-conola. (b) Certificates of compelency-conc/cl, SEcOND CLASS. No. of Dale of certificate, . J'Ortificate •. I BIKAUI, Lyon, Horace Alber~ 133 4th April 1917. Aukim, E. Burton 134 Ditto. Ghosh, Bhola Nath , 135 Ditto. Walker, Terence George 136 Ditto. Mukherjee, Indu Bhusan 137 Ditto. Morgan, John 138 Ditto. Sircar, Haridaa 139 Ditto. Banerjee, Shiabir Kumar 140' Ditto. Hatton, A. R. ·• 141 Ditto. Ghosh, Kristo Dhone 142 Ditto. Nag, Durgapado 143 Ditto. (c) Certificates of service. FIRST CLASS. No: of Dale of certiftcale. NAl!B. I certificate. I BBliABI<8. I---·1--- .. -----1---- ~ramno, Luis Enrico Val ·I 141 I 13th February 1917. ------~·------~'------~------ (d) Certificate of aervice. SECOND Cuss. No. of I NAl!B. certificate. Data of certificate. RBKABAS, ' Nnthuji, Hari~ingji 191 4th April 1917. 72:. APPENDIX IV-:-POJ'I Statement No.3. List of Universities and Colleges approved by the Governor-General in Councill for the purposes of Rules 32 and 33 under the Indian Mines Act 1901. Name of Institution and Degree or Diploma. · Date. Univei'Sity of Birmingham in respect of its Degree of. B.Sc •. in 11th June lll04. Mining and Diploma jn Mining. University College of Bristol in respect of its Senior Diploma in 16th. September 1904. ~ining. University of Cambridge in respect of its Diploma in Mining 6th June 1905.- Engineering. University of Durham in respect of its Degree of B.Sc. in Mining 21st Decem be» 1903. Durham College of Science in respect of its Diploma. in Mining . 29th June 1904. University of Glasgow iu respect of its Degree and Diploma in 28th September 1904. Mining. Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College in respect of its 28th June 1904. Diploma in Mining. . Universitl of Leeds in respect of its Degree of B.Sc. in Mining 21st Novemb;r 1904. and Diploma in Mining. . University of London in respect of its B.Sc. Degree in Mining· 9th June ll!Oa. for Internal Students, subject to the Degree being endorsed by the University with a certificate of four months' practical ex-. perience in a mine. University of London in respect of. its B.Sc. Degree in Mining 7t? August 1906: for External Students, subject to the Degree bein!\' endorsed by the University with a certificate of four months' practical ex- perience in a mine. - · lloJ a.l School of Mines in respect of its Associa.teship in Mining , 24th March 1004. University of Oxford in respect of its Diploma H. for Colliery 11th l<'ebruary 1905 •. Engineers (in Sci~ntific Engineering and Mining subjects}. l;nivei·sity CoHege of Sheffield in respect of its Diploma in 15th July 1904. Mining. University Coll~ge of South Wales and Monmouthshira in 1·espect· 19th Apr111904. of its Diplom:t in Mining. ·· Wigan Mining and Technical College in respect of. its Diploma 26th. August 1904. in Mining. . . Civil Engineeril1g College, Shibpur, in respect of its Diploma in 22nd February 1907 .. Mining. " Merchant Venturers' Technical College, Bristol, in respect of its 5th October 1905. Diploma. in Mining Engineering. Victoria University of Mancbester iu resp~ct of its Degr€e and 14th February 1906, Certificate of Mining. University College of Nottingham in respect of its Diploma. in 28th March 1906, Mining Engineering. University of Sheffield in respect. ·of its Degree of Bachelor of 30th June 1906. Engineering (Miniug-). Heriot- Watt College in respec1r of its Certificate in Mining 16th January 1908. Engineering. Calcutta U niverRity in ·respect of its Degree of Bachelor of 24th Septembe1· 1910. Engineering in the B1·anch of Mining Engineering. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in respect of its 22nd February I 913. Diploma in Mining Engineering. Columbia University, New York, in respect of its Degree of 13th March 1915. Engineer of Mines .. California University, United States of America, in respect of 19th February 1916. its Degree of Mining Engineer. Pittsburg University, United States of Ame1·ica, in respeet of its 19th February 1916. Degree of Engineer of Mines. 73 APPENDIX IV-rontd. MISCELLANEOUS-contd. Sta.te!IIent No. 4; S I B P U R C 0 L L E G E. THE MINING CJ.ASSES. 4.41f!i86ionB to tlte Diploma Corme in Mining at tlte Ci1•il E11gineering College, Sibpur. . The _Dip!oma; Course cover~ two sessions, comm~ncing yea~ly in April, and·lasting tilf the exammatron rn the followmg March, (There rs a vacatron of about three months in August, September and October.) Si:t weeks of each session is spent at a ea.mp of mine surveying in the colliery districts. Two clw;ses of students are admitted .Regular-who need have no experience of Mining.· Special-who have had about two years' previous experience of coal-mining (under- ground), · Admissions are made as follows : Regular Btudenta- A.-Tbrough a special preparatory course of one year's duration aU the Civil Engineer ing College. Admissions at the beginning of February. B.-Through-the Sub-Overseer classes (a two years' course) at Sibpnr, Dacca, Burd wan, Rajshahi and Pabna, in Bengal ; · Bankipur and Ranchi in Bihar and' Orissa. Special students- 1 C.-Direct from the mines to the Mining classes without passing throug-h either A or B. Admissions at the beginning of April. Applications must be made by 15th January accompanied by certificate• from the Colliery Managers under whom the candidate has served, showing the period and nature of his employ ment underground • .idmiaaion qualifications to .4, B atiil C- T be passing pf the Matriculation Examination, the Junior Cambridge Examination,. the examination held at the end of the supplementary course for elementary European Schools, or equivalent. · The number that can be admitted is limited. The selection of candidates rests with the Principal who, all other things being equal, will prefer· the younger of two candidates. Scholarships- For Regular students- Scholarships of the following number and value are available for Regular· students admitted under A, these are awarded on the result of the examination held at . the end of the preparatory course A :- Two of Rs. 12 monthly. Three of ,, 6 , For Special students- • Awarded on the result of the examination held at the end of the lectures given iu the colliery districts by the Instructor in Mining- One of Rs. 5!1 for Europeans.. One or two of Rs. 25 for Indians. These amounts should be sufficient to maintain a special student resident at the college. For further particulars apply for the Apprentice Department Circular. B. HEATON, Principal, Civil :Engineering College, Si~pur. li'oTB.-A studeut over 20 ye:m~ of ago hal little chance of admission. L 74 APPENDIX IV-r.ontd. · M,ISCELLANEOUS-contd. Statement No- 5. MINING INSTRUCTION IN HENGAL AND BIHAR AND OltlSSA. [The Mining Education Adviso?'!J Board desire that Oolliet·y Jfanoget·• will kindly publish thiB infm·mation in thei1• collie1·ies. An appeal is also made to them to support the lectu1·es by seeing that member11 of thei,. colliery staff, who m•e suitable, take adoantage of the lecture~ and a•teml them ?"egularltl.] RANIGANl AND JHhlA COAi..·FlELDS. LECTURES will be delivered by Mr. H. C. Read, Mining Instructor (:Mu•lia, Asausol), throughout the session at the centres noted on the programme on the syllabus laid down for the first-year course. All Europeans aud English-speaking Indians are cordially invited to attend. Prog1·amme for Session 1917-18. •• CE::- JaARIA CoAt·FIEtn. Jharia .. . Lecture-room near Club ... Mondays .5-30 p,JI, Sijua Lecture-room near Station ... Tuesdays 5-0 , R~NIGANJ CoAL·FIRLD. Deshergar~ Lecture-room near Club ... Wednesdays 5-30 p,J[, Raniganj. Railway Institute . ... Thursdays 5-0 " Jam uri& ... Chief Mining Engineer~s office, Sib pur Colliery .. . Fridays 5-30 " The course of instruction, consisting of not less than 30 lectures, will commence the first w.eek in September and end in the following April in which month an examination will be held. Candidates who pass the ex..mination will receive a certificate record in~ their success, No candidate will, however, be permitt~d to sit for the examination uulesA he ' has attended 50 pe1· cent. of the lectures and received 40 per cent. of the marks allotted for home work:. Rupees 100 monthly is offered in scholarships awarded by the Mining Education Advisory Board on the results of the examination, these will be tenable for two years at the Sibpur College and ar~ granted to enable the holders to attend the full course for the Diploma in tbe Principles of Mining-. One scholarship of Rs. 50 is reserved for Europeans and two of Rs. 25 are awarded t9 Indians. _ The following S)lb·Committees have been appointed: RANIGANJ CoAL-FIELD. Dealtergark Centre. Jamuria Centre. 1la1tiga11j Centre, Mr. G. C. Leach, Mr. G. C. Leach, Mr. G. C. Leach, Chai,·nta•. Cltairman. Cit airman. , Glen George {Desher ,. P. S. Keelan (Charan• , P. S. Keelan (Charanpur): garhi. pur), , ·A. T. Creet (Kalipahari). , Gco. Miller (Sitarampur). ,, T. Samson (Charanpur), ,, W. J. Rees (Raniganj). ,, F. Owen (Deshergarh). ., R. Mitchell (Nandi). Babu Promotbo Nath Hazra. Babu M. N. Roy (Begunia). , W. S. Elphinstone (Toposi). , P. U. 'l'arafdar . (Asansol) · ,. Kali Kumar Misra (Mugma). Babu Atnl Sashi Mit."& (Searsole Raj Estate) • ., Hari Prasanua Ghosh (Asansol). ,. S. Cbaudhuri (Jamebari, (Mugma)·. Raniganj). 75 APPENDIX IV-r.ontrl. MISCELLANEOUS-contd. Statement No. 5-contd. Sijua Ce~tre. 'Mr. R. R. Simpson, Mr. R. R. Simpson, Ckai-rman. Ckairma-n. , R. G. M. Bathgate (Jamadoba). , A. A. Agabeg (Sijna). ,, J. S. Kean 1Jama SYLl·ABUS OF THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION; FmsT-YKAR CouRsE. .6 1. Geplog,y.-General structure of the earth's crust; igneous- and aqueous rocks; delini· -tions of outcrop, dip, strike, faul>., roll, wash-out and dyke, etc. ; recording geological obser· vations, reading a geological map; description of the Indi~n coal bearirg rocks; composition . and properties of coal. Commercial values of coal. - - 2. Exploration.-Pro•pectiug, trial shafts and trenching; advantages of boring ; .•methods of boring; driving through faults, uses of boreholes in mines, etc. 3. Breaki~tg U1'0Uil-ds.-Common tools; stot·age and use of explosives; electric fu~es; machine drills ; coal-cutting machines. ; 4. Sinking.-Site of colliery ; position of inclines and shafts, their excavation and shape, .-apparatus used in sinking ; lining shafts ; arrangements at top of sinking shafts; brief men· tion of special methods of 8inking. 5. Metkods of working.-Quarrying, advantages of bench wOJ•ks, di•posal of spoil; shaft -pillars ; pillar and gallery method, working thick seams in stages, extraction of pillars, panels ; --brief description of longwall and cham bering methods. · 6. Suppo1·ting.-Props and lids, bars, chocks Ol' cogs, square sets, special timbering in loose ground ; arohing; steel girders; packin·g; dry and hydraulic stowing. 7. Mine gases.-Their experimental preparation by chemicals, !loD•l illustration of their r>hysical and physiological properties; their chemical composition; methods of detecting ; -explo•ions; spontaneous combustion of coal; dangers of coal dust. 8. 7Tmtilation.-Ascensiona1 currents, currents induced by the heat of steam or furnace ; ,mine fans; friction of air in mines; t.heory of splittinl!' t.he air; calculations of ventilating pressure, eto. ; coursing the air; measurement of quantity of air ; nse of anemometer, water• gauze, thermomete1· and barometer; reversing the air cUtTent. · 9. Safety lamps.-Principle of the safety-lamps; Sir Humphrey Davy's experiment; -types of safety lamps; firedamp detectors. SEcoND·YEAB Couass. 1. .Applied Meckanics.-Mensuration; definitions of force, motion, friction, work and . energy ; the simple machines ; mechanical and electrical units ; hydrostatics ; the siphon; pressure of gases; Boyles' law. , - 2. Steam, Electricity and Comp1·essed ai1·.-Theory of steam ; boilers and their fittings; -the steam engine ; the dynamo ; the electric motor; the air compressor. 3. Wt'nding.-Types of winding engines and description of parts ; calculation of the dimensions of winding enl!'ines ; strength of ropes and chains ; detaching books; overwinding prevention devices; rope cappiogs; care and examination of ropes, buckets, cages, guide ,,..opes. 76 APPENDIX IV-contd. :MISCELLANEOUS-co11td. Statement Ni 5-ooncld• S!!coNn-YEAR' CouRsll""'-'co"cld.• 4. Pumping ....:.The lift pump; the force pump; sinking pump; pumps with positive valve motion ; the pulsometer; turhin!l pumJ:s; calculations of the dimensions of pumps;-.. methods of supporting pumps and pipes;, strength of pipes; pipe joints; dams to hold ·back water. ' I 5. Hauling.-Tra.mways; tubs; hand tramming ; horse haulage ; self-acting inclines ; locomotives ; single rope haulage; main and tail rope haulage ; endless rope O! chain haulage; calculations of the dimensions of hauling engines, l'Opes, etc. ; capping of haulage ropes ; couplings; haulage clips, etc. ; signalling, 6. Surface arrangement1.-Headframes and pulleys ;,receiving frames; keps; arrange-.· menta of roads on pit bank ; tipplers ; simple screening and sizing ; railway sidings ; aerial ropeways. 7. Simple treatment of cokinp,- and bye-product ovens. Adopted by the Mining Education Advisory Board at their meeting of 27th January.. 1917. B. HEATON, Sec1·etary. CIVIL ENGINEERING CoLLBGE, SIBPUR ; Tlte 15tlt Marclt 1917. • Statement No.6. No. 102-C. CENTRAL PROVINCES SECRETARIA'r. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. NOTIFICATION. IJotetl Camp Pachmarlti, tlte lltlt May 1917. In exercise of the puwer conferred by Section 9, Sub-section (1) of the Indian Mines Act, 1901 (VIII of 1901), the Chief Commissioner is pleased to constitute a Mining Board for· the Central Provinces and to appoint the following persons to be Chairman and Members, respectively of the said Board:- CHAIRJU.N, 1. The Uommi~sioner, Nagpur Division. MEMBERS, 2 ..The Deputx Commissioner, Nagpur. s.' The Chief Inspector of Mines in India. 4. Mr. }'. L. D. Simpson, Gene1·al Manager of the Mohpani Collierv, to repreeent the· Coal Industry. • 5. Mr. H. D. Coggan, General Manager of the Central India Mining Company; Limited, Kam{ltee, to represent the Manganese Industry. . N aminated by the Central Provinces and llerar Mining Association. J. F. DYBII, Tltirrl Secretary to the Oltief CommiB1ioner, Central Provinc11• 77 ' APPENDIX IV-conc! MISCELLAN EOUS"-cot~ald. Statement No.7. GOVERN ME NT OF INDIA. ORDER BY ' COAL CONTROLLER. Under Rule] 1 C. C. of the Defence of India. Act, 19lii ([V of 1915) ~otice is herehy given that without a license issued .by the under•igued no work shall be started or re-started, and no labour shall be employed, in any coal mine in the provinces of Bengal and llihar and Orissa which was not being worked on the 1st December 1917. For the purpose of this notice the words '' Coal mine" include pits, inclines or quanies. G. c. GODIIJI.EY, OoaZ Oon6roet~r. 1, COVNOIL HllUSI! STBEE'I', } CALCUTTA, 8t~ J)ec1m~e1' 1917, • Statement No. s, tAND AcQtJisiTION (MiNES) A.CT, 1885. Particuiars required t<> be iurnisneci by colliery owners to Local Governments when giving notice under Section Pl of the Land Acquisition (Mines) Act, lR85, of theiL· intention to we rk coal under land acquired for a railway :- (a) The name, residence and profession of the person giving the notice. . (b) The name of the mine, together with that of rhe village and district in which the mine is situa.tt>. (c) The name of the l'ailway line or of the siding and the m1in line to which the siding is attache,d, under which the mine is situate. (d) The names of the railway stations and the mileage between which the said siding or the said portion of the railway land, under which the mine is situate falls. ' (e)' The numbet· and date of the declarat:on under which the land was acq1tit·ed, (J) A tracing showipg the boundaries of, and the area over which, the acquired ~and extends. «iAtOiJTTA s1:JPB1UUTBNDBST GOVRRNHENT PRINTII'G, INOii 81 HASTINGS STRBBT I