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Show SAFETY COUNCIL REPORTS ON 19 16 ACCIDENTS The National Safety Council figures fi-gures show that in 1946 One out of every 13 persons in the U. S. suffered a disabling injury in-jury during the year . . . 10,400,000 persons were injured. Deaths of children under 5 increased in-creased 3 percent. Deaths of children chil-dren in the 5-14 year group decreased de-creased 8 percent. -Firearms accidents rose 24 per cent to 3,100 deaths, probably due to war souvnirs. Drownings increased 2 percent to a total of 7,300. Falls killed 27,800 persons, about the same as in 1945. More persons were killed in their homes than in traffic 34,000 as compared to 33,500. Two states Arizona and Maryland Mary-land showed reductions in their traffic toll. Total time lost due to deaths and injuries to workers was 425,-000,000 425,-000,000 mandays, which is equivalent equiva-lent to the shut-down for an entire en-tire year of plants with 1,400,000 workers. Seventy-five passengers were killed in airplane accidents. Eighty-nine passengers were killed in railroad accidents. However, How-ever, 1,437 trespassers were killed. Fire loss as estimated by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Underwrit-ers, was up 23 percent over 1945 for a total loss of $561,000,000 or more than $1,500,000 every 24 hours. One person was accidentally killed every 5 minutes, and one person was injured every three seconds sec-onds during the year. Two hundred thousand persons were injured in accidents every 1 week in 1946 and 1,920 were killed l every 7 days. i |