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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221620-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1914
Country: USA
Location: Franklin,New Jersey
TC Begins: 02:00:11
TC Ends: 02:14:17
Duration: 00:14:06
Safety Lessons in Metal Mining R2 of 6 Title: “Shift Boss inspects accident & directs Rescue Squad...” Goes to man under rock; checks ceiling rock, measures height. Rescue squad works to lift fallen rock & workers shore up ceiling w/ posts, planks & shims. Stretcher brought in, rock lifted & moved w/ pry bars. Man lifted & placed on stretcher. 02:04:56 Title: “Use of stretcher in carrying injured man up a ladder out of the stope.” Men carry stretcher up ladder & pulled w/ rope. 02:05:45 Title: “Arrival of stretcher squad at top...” Out of ladder shaft & through tunnel; boss changes sign to Danger & follow after. 02:06:37 Title: “Stretcher squad...departs up shaft on Man Car.” Onto skip & ascends. 02:07:27 Title: “Removal of stretcher...” Skip & men arrive at surface & stretcher carried off. Placed into company ambulance; drives off. Arrival at hospital on snowy road. 02:09:20 Title: “Dangerous practice of drilling in the bottom of an old drill-hole. Partner protests..drill strikes dynamite in old hole...” Men get ready to drill; argue over drilling point & small blast occurs. 02:10:07 Title: “Loading timber into shaft car w/ derrick. A miner...on a shaft car loaded w/ timer, is stopped.” Skip loaded w/ timber, man gets on, pulled off. 02:10:48 Title: “Unloading timber at shaft station underground. Timber is secured...” High angle above ground of derrick lifting timbers / poles onto skip; elevator car of ore up another elevator. 02:12;15 Men underground preparing for timbers; car w/ pole arrives, men untie, rig winch & hoist onto platform and pull off. Four or five men carry away; next pole unloaded & carried off. Continued... 1914 Government Safety Film; Heavy Industry; Mining; Dangerous; Work Place Hazards; Medical; Staged; Documentary Educational Film.