Show job injuries increase in Post postwar ivar 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 in juries of workers last year the bureau of labor statistics reports was the seventh in a row in which more than two mil lion lon workers suffered disabling n juries on the job time lost during the year because of injuries amount ed to 44 7 million man days the equivalent of a year a full time em p for about persons giving even greater pause was the fact that persons were killed in job accidents during 1947 bureau of labor statistics puts the blame to a large extent on ns ris ng employment another factor last year however were two ma jor industrial disasters the texas city explosion and the centralia mine disaster both of which took heavy tolls job injuries in 1947 increased 1 per cent over 1946 job ob injury deaths jumped 3 per cent the year years s toll included 1600 1 employees who will be totally disabled for the rest of their lives and another 90 who will suffer some permanent impairment as long as they live increases in injuries and deaths occurred in construction mining and quarrying public ut cities and trade agriculture and railroading injuries were fewer than in 1946 1940 |