Tragic Fall at the Iron Bunkers
A young worker’s life ended by a workplace accident at the Seattle Coal and Iron Company.
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On Tuesday, November 22, 1892, at Providence Hospital in Seattle, E. M. Studley died as a result of injuries received by falling from the Seattle Coal and Iron Company’s bunkers. He was aged about 24 years. No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral, but telegrams have been sent to his wife at Portland, Oregon, and his mother at Cohasett, Massachusetts.
“Result of injuries received by falling from the Seattle Coal and Iron Company’s bunkers.”
Workplace safety remained a volatile issue throughout the industrialization of the Seattle waterfront, where early labor regulation was often absent. Today, such an event would trigger mandatory OSHA investigations into the structural integrity of the bunkers and company negligence.
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