Salt Mining Underground 1958

Salt mines are generally thought to be relatively safe places to work (as opposed to coal mines). However tragedies can and have occurred. On March 5, 1968, 21 miners died in a fire that broke out in the Cargill salt mine on Belle Isle, Louisiana. This and other mine disasters in the late 1960s led to passage of better mine safety laws in the US. For more on this tragedy go to the article, Belle Isle Tragedy, By George Morris, Advocate staff writer, published: Mar 9, 2008 at:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/16386906.html?index=1&c=y . This clip is from the 1958 Morton Salt Company film, White Wonder, available at the Internet Archives.

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• salt
• mining
• MSHA
• NIOSH
• fire
• dust
• explosive
• sodium
• chloride
• underground
• miners
• safety
• health
• hazards

[lorirocks777]

Why are they going there to get salt when they could just buy it from the shops?

[justfoo2006]

pretty funny Lori lol

[philotaaveti]

@TheBennik salt could cure high blood pressure too wth the right herbs

[TheBennik]

Salt causes high blood pressure...you don't need ALOT of salt!

[Rhacman]

@snowman44077 Lol, this is what I was going to post. (I think you meant 1:53)

[snowman44077]

2:53 For some reason the sound of this thing going "nom nom nom nom" like it was eating the salt came to mind. lol, cool video! Was this the Morton mine in Grand River, Ohio?

[cajun1957]

An uncle of mine was one of the miners who died in the aforementioned accident at Belle Isle, LA. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning. A peaceful death, he was ONLY 45.

[RichardTownshend0]

@lorirocks777 haha retard

[redgaridose]

we still have to mine it to get it