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Show Worker Is Safer On Job Than Off The American factory employee today is safer while at work than he is off the job, as a result of industry's constant and continuing campaign to prevent accident. In 1926 the first year for which national figures are available there were in U.S. manufacturing industries, 24.2 lost-time injuries for every million man-hours worked. work-ed. . That .rate has constantly declin- ed, until today it stands at less than half that rate 11.9 for the second quarter of 1956. The greatly reduced rate of total to-tal lost-time injuries gains even greater significance when it is considered con-sidered that the 1926 rate applied to less" than 10 million employees, while the 1956 figure applies to almost 17 million employees. Despite this excellent record, American industry is not satisfied or content, according to the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers. Manufactur-ers. It recoknizes that any injury rate is a bad rate that accidents are wrong because they cause pain, suffering and economic loss, and that they are not inevitable or unavoidable. |