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Show Steel Mills Are Safer Than Farms rllE steel industry has a better safety record than farming, according ac-cording to a study of the statistics of the National Safety Council made by the American Iron and Steel Institute. The steel Industry, which, during the past ten years, has stood consistently con-sistently near the top of the list among Bare Industries, moved up from firth to fourth place In 1945 .among forty major Industries on the basis of frequency of accidents. Owing to the lack of Information about farm workers' exposure and accidents, no accurate basis exists for a comparison of accident frequency fre-quency between farming and steel- making. However, reliable statistics statis-tics place the number of accidental deaths among farm workers at 53 per 100.000 In 1945. The average for manufacturing Industries, Including Iron and steel, was 19 per 100,000 workers In 1945. On that basis, 2900 lives would have been saved if the fatality rate among farm workers work-ers were as low as the average for all manufacturing. Today, Industrial accidents occur less than half as often for each 100,000 workers as they did In 1930. Intensive safety programs and better bet-ter working conditions have paid off In many fewer accidents and have helped make steel one of the I safest of all Industries. |