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This miner, pouring powder cut of a jagged, pick-cut hole in his can, while his cap lamp burns brightly, is not only taking a chance with his own life, but with that of every other miner in the workings. This is a picture of what the miner should not do. But thousands of lives have been sacrificed by just such methods.

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