ACCIDENTS IN COLLIERIES
DOMINION’S RECORD. ONLY ONE FATALITY IN 1920. WELLINGTON, January 20. The Minister of Mines (Mr Massey) stated that in a recent report to hand from the chief inspector of coal mines he points out that during the year 1920 only one fatal colliery accident occurred in the dominion, the sufferer, a co-operative miner, being solely responsible for the fall which killed him, as he had neglected to timber hie working place. The death rate per 1000 persons employed at coal mining in the dominion was 0.36, that rate being the lowest for 34 years, and being one-third of the lowest proportion ever attained in the United Kingdom, which country is more immune from collier? accidents in proportion to the number of persons employed than any foreign country. The exceptional record obtained in the New Zealand collieries for the year •1920 is very satisfactory, and the management and staffs of the collieries, as well as the miners themselves, are to be highly commended for their efforts in obtaining such a record. The inspection staff of the Alines Department may also be congratulated on the fine results obtained.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 26
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