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Show u \ : National FarmSafety FarmSafety Farm Safety Weeke WeekIn Week In an effort to reduce the ac- ac accident accident ac accident - cident rate among rural workers ( ! ' , now the highest of the nation's nations nation'ssix \ ' ' six major industries , , , the Ute U S SDepartment SDepartment Department of Agriculture and andfarm an < farm [ arm and civic organization organJations organizations organJationsaunched organizationslaunched organizationlaunched % I ) launched aunched a "National National " Farm S.fe- S.fe Safe- Safe S.fety Safety . - - ty Week " campaign on . July .July 23 , , Utah tah USDA officials bUiclals announced announcedtoday announcea announceatoday todayRepresenatives today Represenatlves Represenatives of Soil Sll ( ) Conser Conser- Conservation Conservation - vatlon vation Service , , Extension Sex Ser Service Service Sexvice vice . , Farm Security Administra- Administra Administration Administration - tlon tion , and other agencies dealing dealingdirectly dealingdirectly directly with farm peoplediscussing people 4U " discussing accident prevent preventduring preventloi prevention preventionduring during the week and will wUl pro pro- provide provide - vide them with check sheets to toassist toassist t < assist in locating and eUminaUna eliminating eUminaUnahazards eliminatinghazards lazards hazards on farmsMore farmsMore farms farmsMore More than'20,000 than20000 than " ' 20,000 20000 , , people wen were werekilled werekilled wenkilled killed in farm accidents last lastyear lastyear las ' year , and 2OO 2,00p,000 200p000 2,000,000 2000000 , J.OOO JOOO < , . others wen were wereinjured wereinjured wennjured njured injured , according to Govern Government Government ment statistics ' These "farm farm " accidents , which whichannually whichannually whiciannually I annually rob the nation of mil- mil millions millions millions - lions of hours of productive productive'labor productivelabor productivelabor 'labor labor , , are regrettable atany at any anytime an ; time but they are intolerable in inwartLme inwartime iiwartime Itime anyItime wartLme wartime when every ounce of offood offood ofood food is needed to win vlcto victoand victoandpeece victory and andIpeece an anpeece < peece " Secretary of Agr1c Agriculture AgricultureClaude ture , Ipeece Claude R Wickard , said as he an announced announced announced nounced the safety campaignThe campaignThe campaign campaignThe The loss of time from farm farmmishaps farmmishaps tarnmishaps mishaps is estimated by the theNational theNational th thNational < National Safety Council to be bedouble bedouble b bdouble double the number of man hour hours hoursnecessary hoursnecessary ; necessary to produce the annual annualAmerican annualAmerican annuaAmerican American wheat crop or a wast waste wasteof wastof < ' of more than $1 1 $ 000 000 000 each eachy eachychr eaciyAr eaciyArSurveys ychr ychrSurveys y perilcent rSurveys Surveys r rI reveal that 28 peril per percent pelcent I cent of all farm work accidents accidentsmvolve accidentsinvolve accidentinvolve ! mvolve involve machinery 20 26 per cent centlivestock centlivestock centlivestock livestock 10 per cent , , falls , , 9 per percent percent pelcent cent ' excessive heat 6 per cent centlightning centlightning centlightning lightning and all others , 20 per percent percent pelcent pelcentOne cent centOne One third of these injurie Injuries Injurieswere injurieswere ; ' were assigned to the wearing of ofloose ofloose ol.oose oloose loose ' . clothing , one out of every everyfour everyfour eveofour four occured while the operator operatorwas operatoiwas was cleaning oiling or adjustlnia adjustinga adjusting a running machine and one out outof outof ouof of every seven was attributed attributedto attributeto ! to the failure to keep a child childaway childaway chilcaway away from a . a . . machineCurrent machineCurrent machine machineCurrent Current shortages of farml farmllabor farm farmlabor famlabor labor with consequent overwork overworkand overworkand I Iand and fati fatigue fatigue ue on the part of farm farmers farmers ' ers and the wartime increase in inthe inthe irthe the number of elderly and in inexperienced inexperienced Inexperienced experienced agricultural work workers workers workers ers is further tending to raise the theaccIdent theaccident th thaccident < accident rate safety engineer engineers engineerspomt engineerspoint ; point pomt out |