Like all men, coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia.
*Each year accidents kill 2.2 per 1,000 miners. Average rate of death from "external accident" among general U. S. population in 1935 was .516 per 1,000.
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