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Show Occupational accidents in America last year caused the deaths of some 16,000 workers, the injury of two million more and economic losses of 4 billion 500 million dollars, Maurice J. Tobin, secretary of labor and general chairman of the President's Presi-dent's Conference on Industrial Safety, revealed in Washington. ' The fact that the President of the United States has called a national conference on industrial indus-trial safety," Secretary Tobin declared, "bears testimony to the gravity of this problem. It is ti ue that there has been a 50 percent reduction in occupational occupa-tional accidents in the past quarter of a century, and it is a'so true that the worker of to-riav to-riav is safer at his job than in his home or on the street. However, How-ever, when every 32 minutes an agenient in smaller plants is less considerate, but rather to point out where general education educa-tion can be especially helpful. Most big plants have safety specialists spe-cialists and accidention prevention preven-tion workers constantly on the job. The much more numerous small plants often must look to outside sources for help." The "monstrous figure" of $4,500,000,000 paid out annually annu-ally in the name of occupa-1 tional accidents, Secretary To-1 bin said, does not include many other costs always associated with occupational accidents in the factory and on the farm. Since all costs must be included in the price the ultimate consumer con-sumer pays for a product or service, occupational accident prevention "not only saves human suffering, but also helps everybody's ipocketbook." American citizen encounters death on his job and when every 16 seconds another worker suffers suf-fers a disabling injury, it is time for employers, employees and the general public to sit up and do something about it. "Public education in the problem of industrial safety is essential if a further permanent perma-nent reduction in the annual occupational accident toll is to be effected. The newspapers are the ideal medium for reaching reach-ing those who need to be provided pro-vided with the latest information informa-tion concerning industrial accidents acci-dents and the modern methods cf avoiding them. The President's Presi-dent's Conference on Industrial So.Ei.iy, with the cooperation of the Association of Casualty and Surely Companies, is cooperating cooperat-ing with the nation's newspaper.: newspa-per.: in a combined effort to acr.ieve this goal." Secretary Tobin pointed out that, according to statistics, rrore workers suffer disabling injuries between 10 and 11 o'ciock in the morning and between be-tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon than during any other hours of the day, and added: "An occupational accident, no matter what time of the day or night it occurs, is almost always al-ways a symptom of something vvong in the production process pro-cess something wrong with the man, the machinery, the method, meth-od, or the materials. Practically Practic-ally every industrial accident is evidence of a hazard in the working environment, of inefficiency inef-ficiency in supervision, or lack f adequate training of employees. em-ployees. "It is in the smaller business or plant that the influence of incident prevention techniques is particularly needed. Individually, Indi-vidually, the small business concern does not have a startling startl-ing number of accidents during jny one year. However, considering con-sidering all small business firms collectively, they report a " ; i cater number of accidents annually an-nually than the larger plants. I do not mean to say that man- |