The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

Mining was dangerous everywhere, but miners in the anthracite region died at three times the rate they did in the coal mines of Great Britain. In Schuylkill County alone, between 1870 and 1875 556 miners died and 1,667 were injured.