I doubt it was with a shovel and I don't know what an average per worker load might be. A lot of the coal would likely be pretty large chunks after a blast. It was in any case hard, dirty, very unhealthy and dangerous work for crappy pay. Someone was getting very rich though.
32,000 pounds of coal?
Nah, that's what the employer gets. ;)
I doubt it was with a shovel and I don't know what an average per worker load might be. A lot of the coal would likely be pretty large chunks after a blast. It was in any case hard, dirty, very unhealthy and dangerous work for crappy pay. Someone was getting very rich though.