Mine workers load a chute car at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Workers use removable end-boards to prevent ore chunks from falling off the ends of chute car. Few workers avoid use of end-boards on the chute car. As a result an ore chunk falls on a worker's foot.
Mine workers trim loose ground and large chunks with pick-axes and iron rods at zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. Workers forget to trim muck-pile and huge chunk collapses. Shift boss orders miners to get out in time and avoid an accident.
Zinc mine worker tries to open a dynamite storage magazine with an axe. Shift boss directs him to use a wooden wedge and mallet for opening the box. Workers secure dynamite in a wooden chamber. The door of the chamber reads 'Danger'.
Zinc mine worker carelessly hangs an acetylene lamp against timber at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jesrey. Timber catches fire. The miner sees smoke and runs for help. Shift boss arrives and puts out the fire using a fire extinguisher.
Miners drill holes to place dynamite inside a stope at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Shift boss inspects the holes and orders miners to place proper amount of dynamite. A miner prepares to tamp dynamite with a drill steel bar. The boss stops him and instructs him to use a wooden tamping stick instead. Miner breaks the wooden stick. Fellow miner uses steel bar to tamp the dynamite and causes an explosion. Injured miner with his face covered with gunpowder.
Zinc miner wearing acetylene head lamp tamps fuses in dynamite drill-holes at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Shift boss instructs the miner to take off his head lamp. The miner puts back on his lamp as the boss leaves. Miner's head lamp lights a fuse that results an explosion. Two miners light dynamite fuses and exit the stope. Fellow miner switches the 'Danger' sign before leaving.
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