RE: 60th criticality accident

["Jeri L. Anderson" <janderson@mjwcorp.com>]

The OSHA website is a good place to find statistics on work-related accident
fatalities by industry.  One report lists 43 deaths in 1995 and 39 deaths in
1996 for coal mining and 77 deaths in 1995 and 82 deaths in 1996 for oil and
gas extraction.



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> From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> [mailto:radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu]On Behalf Of Bernard L Cohen
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:39 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: 60th criticality accident
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> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Philip Hypes wrote:
>
> > Now, anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many workers have died
> > in accidents at oil refineries or non-nuclear power plants since 1945?
>
> 	--Much more relevant is the number of workers killed in producing
> electric power by mining coal. Early in this century. about 1400 miners
> died each year in coal mining accidents, and there are still about 100
> deaths each year. But this is just the tip of the iceberg -- many mine
> related diseases kill coal miners, causing their life expectancy to be
> about 3 years less than that of others of the same socioeconomic class.
> 	One could go further and discuss all industrial accidents which
> kill many thousands of workers each year. All of the above numbers refer
> to the U.S. only.
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> >
> Bernard L. Cohen
> Physics Dept.
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> Tel: (412)624-9245
> Fax: (412)624-9163
> e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
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