fire-boss

"White, get back on the job," directed the speaker, who Wilson later learned was the fire-boss.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

"Hoover and Young, and everybody, and not one scratched," responded the fire-boss.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

"They both caught it coming down, but Hoover lost his hold trying to change hands for tapping, and Young dropped the knife he was knocking with, and slipped fishing for it," the fire-boss explained.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

But what if the "fire-boss" overslept himself, or happened to be drunk?

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Therefore in every coal-camp had to be another kind of "fire-boss," whose duty it was to guard against another kind of explosions -- not of carbon monoxide, but of the human soul.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Against these dangers there was a "fire-boss," whose duty was to go through the mine, testing for gas, and making sure that the ventilating-course was in order, and the fans working properly.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

"fire-boss" was supposed to make his rounds in the early morning, and the law specified that no one should go to work till he had certified that all was safe.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

The blacksmith and the fire-boss used to go there to smoke and tell stories, if I remember right. "

The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman

The blacksmith and the fire-boss used to go there to smoke and tell stores, if I remember right. "

Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher