84 
STATEMENT No. 5. 
Non-Fatal Accidents. 
Showing the Number of Persons Injured in Alluvial and Quartz Mining respectively in each of the several 
Mining Districts of Victoria during Eleven Years (1874-1884). 
Alluvial Mining. 
Quartz Mining. 
Total. 
District. 
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17 
n 
5 8 
12 
17 
17 
27 
24 
30 
29 
9 
15 14 
18 
20 
14 
11 
72 
69 
59 
47 
26 
26 
19 
26 
32 
31 
28 
Beechworth 
13 
6 
7 
11 
5 
5 
4 8 
4 
4 
3 
11 
6 
3 
5 
1 
3 1 
2 
7 
2 
1 
24 
12 
10 
16 
6 
8 
5 
10 
11 
6 
4 
Sandhurst... 
2 
2 
1 
3 
... 
4 
2 2 
1 
2 
68 
62 
41 
46 
37 
32 29 
26 
52 
59 
51 
70 
64 
42 
49 
37 
36 
31 
28 
53 
61 
51 
Maryborough 
Castlemame 
15 
*24 
18 
13 
7 
12 
9 12 
4 
2 
8 
3 
6 
i 
6 
7 
10 4 
6 
7 
6 
4 
18 
30 
25 
19 
14 
22 
13 
18 
11 
8 
12 
7 
4 
7 
5 
l 
o 
3 3 
6 
1 
34 
11 
13 
11 
10 
10! 5 
5 
12 
10 
1 
41 
15 
20 
16 
11 
12 
S 
8 
18 
11 
1 
Ararat 
4 
3 
1 
• 1 
... 
1 
1 2 
1 
G 
5 
9 
17 
8 
3 
11 
6 6 
8 
2 
i 
1 
13 
20 
9 
4 
11 
7 
7 
10 
3 
7 
6 
Gippsland... 
1 
5 5 
1 
7 
7 
4 
3 
1 
1 1 
3 
2 
3 
4 
7 
5 
3 
1 
1 
6 
8 
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4 
4 
Totals ... 
86 
84 
1 
64 
51 
30 
35 
29 40 
28 
33 
33 
159 
133 
106 
103 
76 
77 60 
1 
68 
102 95 
1 
73 
245 
217 
170 
154 
106 
112 
89 
108 
130 
128 
106 
STATEMENT No. 6. 
Showing the Causes of Non-fatal Accidents in each of the Eleven Years from 1874 to 1884 inclusive. 
Cause of Injury. 
Number of Persons injured in 
- 
Total 
for 
Eleven 
Years. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 
1S77. 
1878. 
1S79. 
1880. 
1881. 
1S82. 
1S83. 
1S84. 
Falls of earth or rock underground 
GO 
58 
53 
49 
41 
41 
29 
39 
46 
45 
33 
494 
Falls or earth on surface 
15 
8 
11 
12 
4 
9 
2 
4 
1 
6 
1 
73 
Men falling down shafts ... 
21 
19 
13 
12 
10 
8 
10 
5 
13 
12 
9 
132 
Men falling down winzes, shoots, 
9 
10 
2 
4 
o 
2 
G 
G 
G 
10 
4 
61 
passes, &e. 
Fall of materials down shafts, 
19 
18 
19 
12 
8 
8 
10 
9 
12 
10 
10 
135 
passes, &o. 
Cage accideuts ... 
o 
1G 
5 
S 
10 
7 
5 
7 
9 
5 
13 
87 
Injured in setting timber 
4 
o 
1 
5 
1 
4 
1 
... 
... 
1 
19 
Truck accidents 
... 
5 
8 
5 
1 
3 
4 
5 
4 
3 
38 
Machinery in motion 
15 
8 
8 
10 
1 
4 
3 
3 
3 
4 
4 
G3 
Explosion of charges of powder ... 
13 
15 
S 
17 
11 
11 
7 
7 
11 
10 
5 
115 
„ nitro-glycerine com- 
21 
5 
4 
2 
1 
1 
2 
3 
4 
7 
50 
pounds 
„ gun-cotton 
G 
1 
3 
10 
Explosions of boilers 
I 
1 
1 
... 
2 
5 
Explosions of fire-damp ... 
2 
10 
2 
... 
5 
1 
20 
Explosions of stored explosives ... 
... 
4 
3 
6 
1 
1 
5 
5 
3 
... 
28 
Miscellaneous ... 
57 
37 
29 
12 
S 
13 
11 
17 
17 
18 
1G 
235 
Totals... 
245 
217 
170 
154 
106 
112 
89 
108 
130 
128 
106 
1,565 
STATEMENT No. 7. 
Showing the Names and Condition of Persons Injured through Mining Accidents during the Year 1884. 
Accident. 
Mining District. 
Division. 
Condition. 
A nines of rersons injured. 
No. 
Date. 
1884. 
( 
John Keher 
Married 
1 
2 nd January 
Maryborough 
Amherst -1 
John Sellborn ... 
John Beckmann 
Single 
Single 
1 
M. Whelan 
... 
Married 
0 
2nd January 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Thomas Sterry 
Janies Beattie ... 
... 
... 
Married 
3 
8th January 
Maryborough 
Inglewood 
... 
... 
Single 
. 4 
8 th January 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Wm Steebles ... 
Married 
7 
11 th January 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Samuel Davey ... 
... 
Married 
8 
15th January 
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Buninyong 
John Meade 
Married 
9 
15 th January 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
John Williamson 
... 
Single 
10 
18th January 
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Creswick 
William Jayne... 
... 
Married 
11 
24th January 
Sandhurst 
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John Dunstan ... 
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Married 
12 
25th January 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Walter Luckswald 
Married 
15 
31st January 
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Creswick 
Michael Dully ... 
Patrick Guthrie 
Widower 
17 
8th February 
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Creswick 
Single 
18 
8th February 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Richard Cornish 
Married 
19 
9 th February 
Beechworth 
Beechworth 
Francis Kobson 
Married 
20 
11 th February 
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Creswick 
.John Armstrong 
Married 
22 
11th February 
Maryborough 
Maryborough 
Edward Nicholls 
... 
Single 
25 
14th February 
Sandhurst 
Sandhurst 
Henry Bell 
... 
... 
Married 
