Attaching Firing Wire and Shooting

1907

Title
Attaching Firing Wire and Shooting
Identifier
MSP33.B009.F01.I13
Source Identifier
MSP33.B009.F01.I13
Description
Dynamiting a section of coal or “shooting a cut,” was employed to break up coal so that it could be loaded into coal cars and transported to the surface. The miner pictured here is in the process of attaching the two copper wires about 125 feet in length from the caps to the detonator. The miner was required by mining law to shout “Fire in the Hole” three times before he depressed the handle on the detonator that produced an electric current that set off the explosive charges. Those miners in the area that heard these shouts immediately sought shelter.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Vesta Coal Company.
Coal miners.
Coal mines and mining.
Detonators.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
Source
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
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