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Show 5increase of 12 per cent over 1946. Fire destroyed farm property valued at $90,000,000 in 1947, one-sixth one-sixth of the national fire loss. 1,800,000. - Farm home deaths totaled 7,000 with approximatelyl,050,-000 approximatelyl,050,-000 non-fatal injuries. Motor vehicles killed 7,300 farm residents in 1947 and injured in-jured 250,000 more. The total of 4,300 farm work deaths was down 4 per cent from 1946, but it still represented 25 per cent of the nation's occupational occupa-tional death toll for 1947. Public non-motor vehicle deaths such as drownings, took the lives of 1,900 farm residents, a sharp DEATH RATE ON FARMS DOUBLE NON-AG LEVEL Farm workers had an accidental acciden-tal death rate twice as high as workers in non-agricultural industries in-dustries in 1947, the National Safety Council reports. The 1947 death rate for farm workers was 52 per 100,000 workers, work-ers, while in non-agricultural industries in-dustries the death rate was 26. The high farm work death rate gave added significance to farm Safety Week, . proclaimed by President Truman for July 25-31, which seeks the elimination of at least 30,000,000 farm hazards. Each member of a farm' family was asked by the President to accept personal responsibility for the elimination of at least one source of acidents during the week. 19,500 Farm Residents Die Other highlights of the Council's Coun-cil's annual farm accident report were: Total farm resident deaths were 19,500, about the same as last year. Injuries totaled a.bout |