Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of Colorado (Volume 26)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...accident, there were about 100 men employed in the mine, and all generally entered and returned to their places of work through the slope. Their hours were from 7:3O a. m. to 4 p. m., and one trip of four cars was run at each of those hours for the men to ride into and out of the mine. Those trips were insufficient to accommodate all of the men, and, therefore, some of them were obliged to walk up and down the slope. A set of electric wires about three inches apart was strung along the side of the slope, from the bottom thereof to the tipple house on the surface, by which any person being or working anywhere on the slope might signal the engineer in the tipple house by making a circuit with a short piece of iron or metal, which the employes usually carried with them, and thus suspend the operation of the slope as long as necessary. Regarding the places of refuge, or safety holes in the slope, Thomas Page, the pumpman at the mine, a witness for the plaintiff, testified in part as follows: There was nothing regular about any specified amount of manholes up and down the slope. There was a hole on the right hand side of the slope about fifty feet from the knuckle, where they used to pull coal. Down where the second level runs off to the left there is a hole you might get into, but there is a track in there and the cars run. Twenty-five or thirty feet below there is a cross-cut leaves a little place for a man to jump into; either from the main slope or on the back slope to the track on the main slope has been graded down so you have to climb up from two to four feet These are the only holes on the slope. In this respect he does not seem to be contradicted. In fact, his seems to be the only testimony elicited by either party regarding the places of re...