Show aca accidents ants cost U S Tollof toll of lives three times as great as in wars washington D I 1 the coit of n bcd eel dents 1 ith lilt in lium hum in millry find money Is crist constantly antly culled to public in the 1 rass one day it Is a coal balne disaster dis 11 astir asar holcli kill kills 40 nun mn the next illy it 13 1 n building seat folding that c callips liap 4 sto ending oling chinen to their death and al tin 1 it Is lot a rall roud cullip cull lili h it 11 in vl hill illi n H locomotive en giner and nuin are kille I 1 I 1 et it Is if d lit ther the neeru nernie e perso i reading on an or every one of the the thee e items lias tills nna an of the enormous toll that acrid nt cialli loi every bear ejr dinless the disaster conies very close to hone his interest Is apt to be languid after nil all he can not ree see how the th train dy concerns him but it does keel accidents dents tire a loss and all industrial loss Is sooner or later felt by thlu average person oth otherwise emise known as the consumer an iden idea of the cost enst of accidents mav be gathered from the fact that the state of AN wisconsin a alone has hat paid in compensation for accidents in affie years hence all of us should be vitally interested in presenting preventing acci dents all of us should indorse legisla ion tion requiring the adoption of safety devices and nil all of us should refrain from carelessness big economic loss it Is eRtI estimated mated by norman rann ditan dit an bician of the workmen a campen atlon iward of ontario that the nn tin mill industrial accident toll of the fighting n milons in the late war was lie III decla declares rei that in the aitio century there were nere three times as its many casualties in Rc accidents ident ne AS there were men in the three wars wart of the period hout I 1 per cent of nf lie the number of people who nho die dle every noir no air ir in tills coun count tra tr are killed filed by accident the n num um ber her of industrial acel accidents denti oc occurring currin annna Is I 1 suld said to bf be qt these from 1 to tire the tinn unit lot Is estimated ettli tinted to I 1 le about days and the a er a ge inge loss log is 28 per the reul resulting ting econ economic ernic in loss to the community Is at about annually the chief ciu e of industrial acel dents it Is what factory experts the human dement element ln in other words worda the tho personal character characteristics tRO of the worker which ren ler ter him less precise and automatic than a inexperience Is perhaps the most hazardous handl handt cap a borker can have for statistics show that inexperienced men are about five times as likely to be hit hurt as ex perlen ced ceil one ones i illiteracy Is another gra pine e danger as it prevents the n worker from quickly understand ing or liers land te rending ar signs of course an inability to understand Is nn an even pen greater obstacle to safety the foreign born shott nn tin idem dent rate about double that of 0 lie the native boro born night work hazardous hut but in addition to these factors must be considered mildered co the personality of tie the worker himself his lits mental and cal alertness and his habitual men ner ausness or habitual enteles ness the mun man who Is nervous and excitable and the imin im in who Is 3 apathetic and depressed are both types thai that are liable to it has ha been noted unit that workers having disabilities tire victims ot tit accident because brou frou te the consciousness of their defect defects tends to make them more cautious night corus extra hazardous about twice as many accidents occurring among night workers as dey workers wor kere this Is because accumulates at a faster rate at night and as a weariness increases ato does his carelessness the sami tame reason probably explain explains why so many more imore accidents occur keur during the hoi hot ummer summer months than at any other season of the year for or it Is during the intense heat of the summer bummer that worker workers tire most quickly besides the human element the other important cabie of ot accidents la 12 the thill ark lack of proper partly devices some tinei 1 ahli Is due to lack of ini mention onil and it Is due to n gl igene on the lie part of lie the r and 1 sometimes pomet linen even when thre fire adequate safety Icilee 4 the employees carlesly carles car desly gly or deliberately refuse refuge to use ilse thern it lias bet acm n estimated that on only I 1 y 15 to 25 percent per cent of the lie total number f industrial accidents can I 1 ie e preen presented ted b safety devices while from 25 per ent to 61 1 cr or tint tnt can ln be prevented bv education compensation Insul insurance itrice helps prevention as it ts Is now co therefore Is largely n mat ter of and not simply a question of installing mechanical ty devices ns AS la Is commonly beefed most industrial concerns are eonden rating on the educational end of he the campaign making every effort to promote caution through posters poster cincu lars and moving pictures the experience of the last ten years has shown that three fourths of the accidents that occur are tire preventable eatable and it Is distinctly to the interest of emp employers loers to prevent them it they possibly can lor I 1 or a low accident rate not only menns cheaper insurance it means a saving in the time and money lost while breaking in new men the widespread adoption of kompen at ion insurance all but sl 1 states in alus country now nou have it Is generally credited with the steady decline in the industrial accident quota although the nat foral col council of safety asserts that emp employers loers were thoroughly up in arms against t before the matter of In incurance Ini urance i as ever broached to them ik this as it may bistor records that in the decade I 1 ean ean 1896 ant and 1900 ambric in industry exhibited an appalling disregard for human life the hazards encountered by the in dutreal du trIal workers of those days day were ere at any other time or place this was una due it Is bel believed leed to two wo factor the tremendous growth grouth of f A american merican industry at this period find its em employment of enormous numbers of unskilled immigrant laborers who mho spoke practically no english condl eions were particularly frightful in the steel and iron industries where daily men were mere crashed crushed like flies files reduce steel mill peril perils since this tills hectic period these andu industries have engaged so persistently in accident prevention that the perils at inched to the making of iron and steel have been greatly reduced one large and n etcel steel company claims to have made a 1 man reduction of 80 per cent 11 in I 1 the total tow aren number of its accidents since the fital was 1900 now ow other industries lead arci and steel in accident risks boldn tit the foremost place for hazards Is the coal mining industry in which thirty tb three men are killed it Is wild of join every 10 employed emp oyed and in N which aich tit t hill least four men lose their lives for tt ey icil cry ory tons of coal produce 01 bentli by accident la to also still uncomfortably foun fort ably frequent in the fisheries industry lord and in navigation where the tt aen mortality rate Is thirty for every MOM ahm employed ti special mention la Is deserved by the tb pur building industry too which Is i rrt great mb 13 1 in need of a brisk campaign for accident alk prevention here death ts is ie both to carelessness and lack nf of guards condition conditions that would mould not be tolerated in a factory for twenty four hours one expert says are hee found on every job by this tills be fou means that the staging Is fragile and ta it carelessly inspected that ladders tet are used in place of stairs al at bert though stairs have line been provid to be poti more economical and that 0 IIII 1111 traveling cables are unprotected bach buch inexcusable carelessness not re suits in a large ioa of human lie e bet but ils it increases increase the cost of building lin |