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Show Job Injuries Increase In Postwar Industry U. S. economy is expanding under the pressure of postwar necessity, but that almost frantic expansion is taking a high toll in deaths and injuries in-juries of workers. Last year, the bureau of labor statistics reports, was the seventh in a row in which more than two million mil-lion workers suffered disabling injuries in-juries onthe job. Time lost during the year because of injuries amounted amount-ed to 44.7 million man-days the equivalent of a year's full-time employment em-ployment for about 150,000 persons. Giving even greater pause was the fact that 17,000 persons were killed in job accidents during 1947. Bureau of labor statistics puts the blame, to a large extent, on rising employment. Another factor last year, however, were two major ma-jor industrial disasters the Texas Pitv ffxnlnsinn and th Centralia. 111., mine disaster both of which took heavy tolls. Job injuries in 1947 increased 1 per cent over 1946, job injury deaths Jumped 3 per cent. The year's toll included 1,800 employees who will be totally disabled for the rest of their lives and another 90,000 who will suffer some permanent impairment as long as they live. I Increases in injuries and deaths j occurred in construction, mining and quarrying, public utilities and trade, j Agriculture and railroading injuries were fewer than In 1946. |