Odds of getting injured at the Ground Floor Mine were pretty good

The Ground Floor Mine was a very dangerous place to work. In 1906, from August to December, the Webb City Sentinel reported six accidents at the mine.

The accidents were a bruised shoulder caused by a falling slab, a scalding from a broken steam line, a tub hoisted to the surface and coming down on a miner’s foot, a smashed hand that was caught between the mine wall and the hoisting tub, a sliver from a machine stuck in a miner’s eye causing the loss of the eye and another tub smashing a miner’s finger when it was lowered down the mine shaft.

The Ground Floor Mine, owned by A. E. Bandelari, was located on the Guinn land north of Webb City near the Yellow Dog Mine. In 1906, the operation erected a 200-ton mill.