Maryland Bureau of Mines, Inspector’s Annual Report
On April 4, 1938, about 1:30 P.M., Thomas Armstrong, a foreman and hoist runner, who under the firm name of Stowell and Armstrong, was operating a mine at Zihlman, Md., Freeport coal seam, was fatally injured as a result of being caught by the rope on the hoist. Mr. Armstrong was pulling the empty rope up the heading and was using a pick handle to guide the rope on the drum. In some manner he was caught by the rope and was killed instantly.
(Mr. Armstrong was listed as age 38, married, American, residing in Zihlman, and leaving a widow and two young children. The Mine Foreman was Thomas Foreman. The Mine Inspector’s recommendation was “Guard should be kept on all machinery and electrical power should be properly installed.”)
Further information was presented on another page: One fatal accident was due to the operator of an electric hoist in a small mine in the Freeport seam becoming entangled in the haulage rope on an inclined plane. This mine furnished coal to a fire brick plant and came under the inspection of the Bureau on the day that the accident occurred. The victim, one of the two contractors operating the mine, being the fifth employee necessary for bringing this mine under the Bureau inspection.
The deceased, the operator of the hoist, was running the electric hoist, which was pulling the empty rope up the plane, guiding the rope on to the drum by means of a stick. He must have reached for the controller with one hand, the other hand guiding the rope. The operator lost his balance and fell, and the moving rope wound over him and forced his body into the gears on the hoist, causing his death. There was a portion of the guard missing on the drum but this had no part in the accident. The hoist continued to operate and the victim’s body was ground against the drum. Finally the electric motor operating the hoist was grounded, and the insulation on the motor began to burn and the area about the hoist became filled with smoke from the burning motor. The miners on the slope could not approach the small shed in which the hoist was located owing to the dense smoke which enveloped the hoist. Finally the smoke and fumes became dissipated and the miners were able to reach the hoist and remove Mr. Armstrong’s body. He was dead when taken from the hoist. After the accident occurred the District Mine Inspector and two of the electricians for the electric power company, which supplied the power for operating the hoist, examined the electrical equipment for the hoist control, and found there were two solid wires on the control of the hoist, instead of the regular safety fuses on the machine when it was first installed. These solid wires did not melt, as the fuse would have done, but carried the current and the insulation on the motor was destroyed and the motor burned and put out of service.
Compensation for the death of Mr. Armstrong was disallowed.
His burial site in unknown.
On April 4, 1938, about 1:30 P.M., Thomas Armstrong, a foreman and hoist runner, who under the firm name of Stowell and Armstrong, was operating a mine at Zihlman, Md., Freeport coal seam, was fatally injured as a result of being caught by the rope on the hoist. Mr. Armstrong was pulling the empty rope up the heading and was using a pick handle to guide the rope on the drum. In some manner he was caught by the rope and was killed instantly.
(Mr. Armstrong was listed as age 38, married, American, residing in Zihlman, and leaving a widow and two young children. The Mine Foreman was Thomas Foreman. The Mine Inspector’s recommendation was “Guard should be kept on all machinery and electrical power should be properly installed.”)
Further information was presented on another page: One fatal accident was due to the operator of an electric hoist in a small mine in the Freeport seam becoming entangled in the haulage rope on an inclined plane. This mine furnished coal to a fire brick plant and came under the inspection of the Bureau on the day that the accident occurred. The victim, one of the two contractors operating the mine, being the fifth employee necessary for bringing this mine under the Bureau inspection.
The deceased, the operator of the hoist, was running the electric hoist, which was pulling the empty rope up the plane, guiding the rope on to the drum by means of a stick. He must have reached for the controller with one hand, the other hand guiding the rope. The operator lost his balance and fell, and the moving rope wound over him and forced his body into the gears on the hoist, causing his death. There was a portion of the guard missing on the drum but this had no part in the accident. The hoist continued to operate and the victim’s body was ground against the drum. Finally the electric motor operating the hoist was grounded, and the insulation on the motor began to burn and the area about the hoist became filled with smoke from the burning motor. The miners on the slope could not approach the small shed in which the hoist was located owing to the dense smoke which enveloped the hoist. Finally the smoke and fumes became dissipated and the miners were able to reach the hoist and remove Mr. Armstrong’s body. He was dead when taken from the hoist. After the accident occurred the District Mine Inspector and two of the electricians for the electric power company, which supplied the power for operating the hoist, examined the electrical equipment for the hoist control, and found there were two solid wires on the control of the hoist, instead of the regular safety fuses on the machine when it was first installed. These solid wires did not melt, as the fuse would have done, but carried the current and the insulation on the motor was destroyed and the motor burned and put out of service.
Compensation for the death of Mr. Armstrong was disallowed.
His burial site in unknown.
Maryland Bureau of Mines, Inspector’s Annual Report
On April 4, 1938, about 1:30 P.M., Thomas Armstrong, a foreman and hoist runner, who under the firm name of Stowell and Armstrong, was operating a mine at Zihlman, Md., Freeport coal seam, was fatally injured as a result of being caught by the rope on the hoist. Mr. Armstrong was pulling the empty rope up the heading and was using a pick handle to guide the rope on the drum. In some manner he was caught by the rope and was killed instantly.
(Mr. Armstrong was listed as age 38, married, American, residing in Zihlman, and leaving a widow and two young children. The Mine Foreman was Thomas Foreman. The Mine Inspector’s recommendation was “Guard should be kept on all machinery and electrical power should be properly installed.”)
Further information was presented on another page: One fatal accident was due to the operator of an electric hoist in a small mine in the Freeport seam becoming entangled in the haulage rope on an inclined plane. This mine furnished coal to a fire brick plant and came under the inspection of the Bureau on the day that the accident occurred. The victim, one of the two contractors operating the mine, being the fifth employee necessary for bringing this mine under the Bureau inspection.
The deceased, the operator of the hoist, was running the electric hoist, which was pulling the empty rope up the plane, guiding the rope on to the drum by means of a stick. He must have reached for the controller with one hand, the other hand guiding the rope. The operator lost his balance and fell, and the moving rope wound over him and forced his body into the gears on the hoist, causing his death. There was a portion of the guard missing on the drum but this had no part in the accident. The hoist continued to operate and the victim’s body was ground against the drum. Finally the electric motor operating the hoist was grounded, and the insulation on the motor began to burn and the area about the hoist became filled with smoke from the burning motor. The miners on the slope could not approach the small shed in which the hoist was located owing to the dense smoke which enveloped the hoist. Finally the smoke and fumes became dissipated and the miners were able to reach the hoist and remove Mr. Armstrong’s body. He was dead when taken from the hoist. After the accident occurred the District Mine Inspector and two of the electricians for the electric power company, which supplied the power for operating the hoist, examined the electrical equipment for the hoist control, and found there were two solid wires on the control of the hoist, instead of the regular safety fuses on the machine when it was first installed. These solid wires did not melt, as the fuse would have done, but carried the current and the insulation on the motor was destroyed and the motor burned and put out of service.
Compensation for the death of Mr. Armstrong was disallowed.
His burial site in unknown.
On April 4, 1938, about 1:30 P.M., Thomas Armstrong, a foreman and hoist runner, who under the firm name of Stowell and Armstrong, was operating a mine at Zihlman, Md., Freeport coal seam, was fatally injured as a result of being caught by the rope on the hoist. Mr. Armstrong was pulling the empty rope up the heading and was using a pick handle to guide the rope on the drum. In some manner he was caught by the rope and was killed instantly.
(Mr. Armstrong was listed as age 38, married, American, residing in Zihlman, and leaving a widow and two young children. The Mine Foreman was Thomas Foreman. The Mine Inspector’s recommendation was “Guard should be kept on all machinery and electrical power should be properly installed.”)
Further information was presented on another page: One fatal accident was due to the operator of an electric hoist in a small mine in the Freeport seam becoming entangled in the haulage rope on an inclined plane. This mine furnished coal to a fire brick plant and came under the inspection of the Bureau on the day that the accident occurred. The victim, one of the two contractors operating the mine, being the fifth employee necessary for bringing this mine under the Bureau inspection.
The deceased, the operator of the hoist, was running the electric hoist, which was pulling the empty rope up the plane, guiding the rope on to the drum by means of a stick. He must have reached for the controller with one hand, the other hand guiding the rope. The operator lost his balance and fell, and the moving rope wound over him and forced his body into the gears on the hoist, causing his death. There was a portion of the guard missing on the drum but this had no part in the accident. The hoist continued to operate and the victim’s body was ground against the drum. Finally the electric motor operating the hoist was grounded, and the insulation on the motor began to burn and the area about the hoist became filled with smoke from the burning motor. The miners on the slope could not approach the small shed in which the hoist was located owing to the dense smoke which enveloped the hoist. Finally the smoke and fumes became dissipated and the miners were able to reach the hoist and remove Mr. Armstrong’s body. He was dead when taken from the hoist. After the accident occurred the District Mine Inspector and two of the electricians for the electric power company, which supplied the power for operating the hoist, examined the electrical equipment for the hoist control, and found there were two solid wires on the control of the hoist, instead of the regular safety fuses on the machine when it was first installed. These solid wires did not melt, as the fuse would have done, but carried the current and the insulation on the motor was destroyed and the motor burned and put out of service.
Compensation for the death of Mr. Armstrong was disallowed.
His burial site in unknown.
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