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Show ACCIDENTS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED PRE-VENTED A carpenter, engaged in re-.' re-.' ' ' pairing a coal treatlo, ripped off several boards and threw them In back of liim. While tearing off another board, he stepped back and on a nail protruding from one of the boards he had thrown aside. Removing or bending over nails as 1fie work progresses will prevent accidents of this nature. nat-ure. In starting a generator fire a laborer threw a bucket of waste oil on the fire and was badly burnt by the resultant flame. " Thjs is a dangorous practice. Where it is thought necessary to uso oil to start a fire, waste saturated, but not dripping with oil, can be used with less risk of injury from flames flying back in the laborer's face. Tlie guago glass on a boiler broke, and a workman was ordered ord-ered to repair it. Whilo he was , 'on a ladder, engaged in the work escaping steam and hot water caused a nearby electric Jamp ' to burst. A piece of the bulb entered, and caused the loss pf the workman's eye. I I The wearing of goggles and equipping gauge glasses with chain or nod pull, quick-cosing valves v 'II I avoid accidents ol this nature. An orderman, going to his car to get some fittings, Jumped Into the box at the rear of the car. Ho Btepped on the.spout of an oil can and sprained his ank-tle. ank-tle. It is advisable to store oil cans in racks where they will not be stepped upbn. While an engineer was standing stand-ing at the foot of a chute, a bag of cement struck him in the leg, fracturing and spraining his ankle. an-kle. ! Standing in front of discharging discharg-ing conevors or chutes is dan- gerous owing to the liability oi being struck by the discharged materials.. A little care in standing stand-ing out of the way of the material mat-erial discharged would have prevented this accident Bulletin of U.G.I. Co., Philadelphia. |
