Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 157, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1921 — Page 7

DANGER IN DUST, SAY EXPERTS OF MINE BUREAU Some Sorts Have Tremendous Explosive Powers, Others Cause Disease. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Investigations being conducted by the Federal bureau of mines havs emphasised the fact that dusts of various types are Intensely harmful, occasioning In some Industries terrible explosions that produce great loss of life and property. In other trades they are responsible for a highly

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Increased death rats from lung diseases. The fact that coal duat has tremendous explosive powers, once scoffed at by the "eteran miner, is now demonstrated frequently by the bureau in Its own coal mine at Experiment, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Pulverised coal, blown to the furnace through compressed air lines, Is an Ideal fuel In certain industries, but the bureau points out that clouds of dust released from such pipes are aB dangerous as a body of unconflned natural gas when liberated In close proximity to open flames’ or red-hot metal. ALUMINUM DUST EXPLODES. Aluminum dust has also been found to be quite explrdve, and several disastrous explosions of this dust have occurred In manufacturing establishments. The dusts of various grains have been found by the Department of

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Agriculture to b responsible for a number of severe explosions in flour mills ind grain elevators. Hard rubber dust Is also declared to be explosive. The dust or rock containing free silica, found in some metal mines in the West, setting In the lungs of the miners, is responsible for a heavy annual death rate from tuberculosis. The bureau of mines found In an Investigation of conditions in the Butte, Mont., copper mining district, that the tubercular death rate of Butte miners was nearly thirteeu times as great as that of residents of the State of Michigan. Pulmonary diseases due to rock dust among the miners of the Joplin, Ho., lead and sine district affects probably as high as 30 per cent of the miners employed In certain classes of mines. Remedial measures are being found by the Introduction of better ventilation and through the use of water in drilling and In the ore piles to pre-

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1921.

vent formation of a dust cloud In the air. Not all dusts are the enemies of mankind, however. The bureau of mines is encouraging the use' in coal mines of barriers of certain rock dusts which, when Jarred % the explosion of coal dust, scatter and act as a screen for the stoppage of the exploding coal dust. The dust waste from slat© quarries, amounting to about 90 per cent of the entire material mined, has been found by the bureau to be peculiarly adapted to use as a filler In the making of asphalt road surfaces. ' “MOVIE” EYE-STRAIN. LONDON, Nov. 11. —To lessen the danger of eye-strain, the moving picture theater owners of Blackburn have agreed to exclude ytfung children from the first few rows in the auditorium. The rule was requested by the local health authorities.

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