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The Lamp House | |||
The lamps revealed the locations of the men who carried them. Lamps were returned at the end of each shift. If a peg remained uncovered (by a lamp) at the end of a shift, the fire boss would know—at a glance—that a missing lamp meant a missing man.
The use of flame-type safety lamps was closely controlled. Each lamp was locked to prevent its user from opening it—a situation that could prove to he deadly! Miners might be tempted to try to relight the lamp with a match rather than walk in the dark to a distant relighting station near the entry. The electric safely lamp—in use by the 1920s-—was also kept
locked. Why? Miners were tempted to speed up their coal
production by opening the lamps and using them to "fire |
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