Hi all
when I started as an apprentice mechanic in the
coal mines on Cannock Chase in the mid 60s
we use to use powder on the forehead to induce a good banging head ache to
get out of the pit early
Alan Dean
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Ingham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: fireman & blasting
> Interesting comments from Evan and Mason, must admit these days I don't
> handle nitro based that often but I have made a couple of mistakes
> recently and aspirin don't help.
>
> The story came from my wife's uncle who was a manager at the now closed
> Agecroft Pit, he recounts that when he started in the 30's, it was quite
> a common practice.
>
> On the other comments, the nitro dilates the blood vessels and it is
> this effect that causes the headaches, constant contact (that is daily
> not once a week firing) with it, ensures the vessels remain dilated - a
> similar thing to taking nitro tablets for heart problems. Old miners
> made sure that they handled it each day even if not firing. However, it
> does you no good in the long run. Not quite sure of the actual medical
> reasons, it probably weakend the blood vessels leading to strokes or
> something, but I have some accounts of miners/quarrymen who died up to
> the mid 50's, and the cause was put down to *nitroglycerine poisoning*.
>
> regards
> --
> Phil Ingham
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