Eight injured miners are being treated for burns.
Agnes Barrow was paid 1/ a night for attending upon a sick or injured miner, T. Smith, who probably lived alone, quite possibly in miserable circumstances.
Four of the injured miners were reported in serious condition from burn wounds.
Similarly, a mine hospital has more interest in saving an injured miner, if only to get him back underground, than a Government hospital.
Sickbay was littered with injured miners, most suffering from frostbite and from the severe cold, some having caught pneumonia.
The organization was formed to oppose a pending wage cut, and to create a benefit fund for sick and injured miners and their families.
In 1943 the house was bought by the Miners' Welfare Commission and it became a rehabilitation centre for injured miners.
Keeping their hooded heads low, they approached the transporter as two injured miners limped off.
The explosion caused two deaths, two injured and 70 miners stayed trapped for 7 hours.
The first buildings of the Bergmannsheil were erected in 1888 in order to provide medical care for injured miners.