Some wounds never fully heal; Make safety a value to avoid the scars that last a lifetime

摘要

I spent a lot of my mining career as an hourly worker. I have been a graveyard shift laborer replacing rail along the main haulage, worked as an electrician for a year, (even though I knew virtually nothing about electricity), and I am proud to say that for a brief period I "made it" working as a contract miner in a track drift, advancing the headings with a jackleg and a 12B mucker. That was in a time when, if you called yourself a miner before you had proven yourself to the crew, you would get your lamp busted out on the cage going down. I have been on bull gangs, nipped, sunk shaft and even been greased (some of you will know about the last one).