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| | The Labour Gazette, March 1939, pages: 349-358 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The finding of the coroner's jury was that the still was just a welded vessel with insufficient supports and it was recommended that the provincial government inspect all oil refineries when being constructed, and when in operation, and make it obligatory to obtain a licence before refining operations were allowed to be started. |
 | | Fatalities numbering 191 were caused by "falling objects," of which 89 were from objects falling in mines and quarries, 45 due to falling trees and limbs, 29 to objects falling from elevations, loads, piles; 10 to breaking or loosening of straps, cables, etc.; 9 to collapse of structure; and 9 to other falling objects. |
 | | In Ontario the largest proportion of fatalities occurred in mining, non-ferrous smelting and quarrying where there were 76, with 66 in construction, 61 in agriculture, 61 in transportation and public utilities, 55 in manufacturing, 37 in logging, 23 in trade, 17 in service, 9 in electric light and power and 7 in fishing and trapping. |
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