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| Fuller Mine (Searights Mine & Coke Works)
(ca.1905- ? ), Located on the Monongahela River, Searights, Fayette Co., PA [A new mine ca.1905.] Owners: (ca.1905- ? ), Taylor Coke Company, Uniontown, PA |
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| HISTORY: Fuller Mine Fuller Mine. Situated on the National Pike; 900 acres of coal. Will be a modern up-to-date plant in every particular when completed. Depth of shaft 190 feet from landing. Hoisting engines were built by the Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 24 X 36 conical drum. Head frame and tipple are built of steel. Concrete bins, capacity 5,000 tons. (Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, Part II Bituminous, 1905,1906:263) Two serious accidents occurred at the Fuller Mine of the Taylor Coke Company, by which 9 men lost their lives. July 6, 1905, an explosion of fire damp at the Company's new shaft caused the death of 6 employes: George Thomas, foreman; John Carter, driller; Walter Williams, Samuel Davis, Charles Carter, and Mike Creedan, Laborers.
The shaft had been sunk to a depth of 94 feet when the surface
at the top of the shaft, being of a soft nature, began to break the shaft
timbers, making it necessary to concrete the top of the shaft. Sinking
was discontinued and a platform built in the shaft about 19 feet from the
surface, to remove the dirt preparatory to concreting the top. This
closed off about 72 feet of the bottom of the shaft, where marsh gas was
generating, and as there was no circulation of the air a mechanical mixture
was set up. |
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