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Honor Roll -
33 Fatal
Coal, |
In the course of building our nation's mighty industrial underpinnings, an alarming number of unfortunate cousins have lost their lives working in the coal, coke and steel industries. We seek on this page to identify them by name, linked to their individual biographies, and to honor their memory so they will never be forgotten. The first was in 1884, with William H. Minerd's death in a "fire damp" explosion near Uniontown, PA. The latest was 1989, when Jackie Giles was crushed while dismantling machinery at the former US Steel Homestead Works near Pittsburgh.
See our 1999 study of the hundreds of coal, coke and steel workers in our extended family, and the related guest column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
~ Named in Alphabetical Order ~
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Year |
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| 1908 | |
| 1935 | |
| 1913 | |
| 1933 | |
| 1930 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1916 | |
| 1934 | |
| 1930 | |
| 1917 | |
| Charles Houchins | 1922 |
| 1895 | |
| 1968 | |
| ? | |
| 1919 | |
| 1910 | |
| 1946 | |
| 1885 | |
| 1925 | |
| 1884 | |
| 1946 | |
| 1893 | |
| 1924 | |
| 1941 | |
| 1920 | |
| 1936 | |
| 1928 | |
| 1901 | |
| 1930 | |
| 1935 | |
| 1911 | |
| 1910 | |
| 1937 | |
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