Bernard Allen, Two Thousand Dying on a Job. New Masses, 15 January 1935. “Two thousand workmen, according to the estimated figures of the contractors, were employed for over a period of two years [in the early 1930s] in drilling a three and three-quarter mile tunnel under a mountain from Gauley’s Junction to Hawk’s Nest in Fayette County, West Virginia. The rock through which these men bored was sandstone of a high silica content (in tunnel number one it ran from 97 percent pure silica to as high as 99.4 percent) and the contracting company neglected to provide any safety devices.”
January 15, 1935
Two Thousand Dying on a Job: Silicosis deaths resulting from working on the Hawks Mountain Tunnel Project in West Virginia in the early 1930s
January 15, 1935 Filed Under: Corporations, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Labor, Law Tagged With: electro-metallurgical company, gauley bridge west virginia, hawks mountain tunnel project in west virginia, industrial tragedy, new-kanawah power company, rinehart & dennis company of charlottesville virginia, silicosis, union carbide & carbon company