Show Ford Company Realizes Responsibility to W Workers It has been announced by the Ford Motor company that the fiscal year ear ending July 31 iou 1913 there was I only one fatality among the fifty thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand In their Highland Park Detroit plant This the they say is due to the thorough and detailed study made by the tho corps of Ford lord safety engineers rs who not only continually search out the unsafe in the old but examine every new device or piece of ot machinery that comes into the plant Their report goes on to sa say Out of ot the tho war there was brought home homo to America the realization that Its Industrial industrial industrial indus Indus- trial activities had been carried on at ata a tremendous sacrifice of ot workers We were appalled at the need for surgeons and nurses and great gnat hospitals to care for the wounded Had the wounded soldiers sol sol- tiers diers of Industrial America been placed on cots each six feet long and andi arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged end to end they would have made a continuous train miles long lied Had those killed through carelessness In American industrial plants during the past year been laid laM shoulder to shoulder shouler der er there would have been formed a solid row of ot human bodies eight and ne third miles long V Realizing Its re responsibility to its Ita workers th the Ford Motor company has aggressive safety work with lie ho Idea IrlEa of eliminating the causes I of I It lt has haO hE hen beon emphasized over V I and over to Ford that accidents accidents accidents acci acci- dents are not a necessary byproduct of their work worle and that no man will be asked to take chances The acrobatic type of man who used to think that he was doln doing his employer a great favor by hanging by his eyebrows' eyebrows from some lofty perc perch or by doing some other equally foolhardy stunt is being rapidly rapid rapid- ly separated from the Ford tion He lie HeIs Is not needed he Is a menace to himself his associates and his em em- Accident prevention work should tear bear ear I I Ie fruit in a n. greatly reduced g number u of I accidents e s. s There were six fatalities lIU within the Ford organization three years II ago yet last year ear has passed with but one And our men are working in a veritable forest of ot high speed machinery machin machin- ery cry with great cranes elevators conveyor conveyor con con- eor systems and other equipment Inaction in inaction inaction action twenty four hours a da day Out of ot factory workers In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States approximately 22 are killed each year ear at their work Applying the same ratio to the Ford ord plant there should be 10 twenty nine deaths through accident within this plant alone each year Or to reverse the order If It the Ford record of or but one death per year ear In a group roup of workmen err followed throughout the country but fiO men mn would hE bf killed In- In 1 nf or 22 thE the present number |