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ACCIDENTS IN THE MACHINE
BUILDING INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1.—
During the past few years there
has been widespread interest in the
subject of industrial accidents and
their prevention, and important
safety campaigns have been carried
on by many employers and by many
private and public organizations.
No doubt these efforts have been
successful in reducing the huge toll
of death and suffering which mo
dern industry leties upon its work
ers. But the effectiveness of all
such efforts has been seriously han
dicapped by the general lack of in
formation regarding the prevalence,
causes, and effects of accidents in
the industries of the country.
A recent report of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor entitled “Accidents
and accident prevention in machine
building” supplies this detailed in
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Vnderwcar and hosiery at Mill
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formation for a large group of
plants engaged in the building of
different kinds of mhchincs. The
character of the machines built by
these plants varied greatly, from
mommoth locomotives and ships to
delicate electrical apparatus, but it
is of interest to note that they are
all of a type for which the war has
made enormous demands. There
fore, although the present study
was made prior to the war, the in
formation regarding accident ha
zards in the industry is now of par
ticular pertinence.
A notable feature of the report
is I he measurement of accidents ac
cording to their severity. Previous
studies have been chiefly concerned
with the frequency of accident oc
currence. and have counted all acci
dents as of the same value. A
broken finger and a broken back
have been counted alike in comput
ing accident rates, although clearly
the latter is immeasurably more
serious. The method offered in this
report is to measure each accident
according to the resulting amount
of time lost. To do this it is neces
sary, of course, to express fatal and ^
permanet injuries as well as tern
porary disabilities, in terms of
workdays lost. This is done by val
uing a fatal injury, on the/ basis of
life insurance experience, as equiv
alent to the loss of 30 years of a
mans working life, while total per
manent disability was rated at 35
years. Other injuries are credited
with lower time losses in proportion
to their probable effect u^pn earn
ing capacity.
Applying this method to the ac
cident data for the machine build
ing industry, some very interesting
results are obtained. Thus, in the
194 plants covered by the investi
gation the number of acicdents oe
curirng in 1912 was 13,647, result
ing in 37 deaths, 411 permanent in
juries, and 13,199 temporary dis
abilities. This is equivalent to an
accident frequently rate of 118 per
1,000 full- time (300-day) workers
and a severity rate of 5.6 days lost
per worker. These rates may be
contrasted with the experience of a
representative steel plant during
the same year, for which the fre
quency rate was 164 and the sever
ity rate 14 days lost. Accidents in
♦he tseel plant were thus only about
one-third more frequent than in
machine building but their severity
was 2 1-2 times as great.
The accident hazards of the mar
chine-building plants vary greatly
with the character of their products
Those engaged in the making of
locomotives have the highest sever
ity rate—11 days lost per worker—
and the builders of ships have the
next highest—8 days lost per work
er.
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