Author: Daniel HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explosives
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Preventing Accidents by the Proper Use of Permissible Explosives
Author: Daniel HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explosives
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Technical Paper
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Technical Paper
Author: How to Use Permissible Explosives Properly
Author: Daniel HarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Bibliography of Bureau of Mines Publications Dealing with Health and Safety in the Mineral and Allied Industries, 1910-46
Author: Sara Jeannette DavenportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
List of Publications Issued by the Bureau of Mines, with Subject and Author Index
Author: United States. Bureau of MinesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Information Circular
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3258
Book Description
Safety First
Author: Mark AldrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.