Work Intensity and Worker Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Mining
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Boal, William M. Work Intensity and Worker Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Mining. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-08-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E105221V1
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ABSTRACT: Why did coal mining remain so dangerous in
the early twentieth century? Observers
blamed miners for neglecting safety in their haste to load coal, for which they
were paid on piece. Using a panel of about
500 coal mines, the elasticity of fatalities with respect to speed or intensity
of work is estimated to be about one-half, implying a marginal cost of a
statistical life to miners of about $400 thousand in 1921 dollars. This likely exceeded their value of a statistical
life, so preventing accidents was expensive for miners. However, the union reduced fatalities with
little effect on work intensity.
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