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Show Man's 'Bo st Friend' Causes Most Farm Accidents Old Dobbin may be man's best friend but he doesn't act like it. In fact, horses are involved in more accidents on American farms than any other animal, including the bull, Dr. H. Herman Young of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn., told delegates dele-gates to the farm safety section of the National Safety council's 34th national safety congress in Chicago. Life on farms is full of peril, Dr. Young asserled. pointing to a nine-year nine-year survey of farm accidents, made under joint auspices of Mayo clinic and the safety council, which disclosed that 38.700 farmers were killed at work during the period. About 133.200 farm residents were killed accidentally and 100, 125.000 non-fatal farm home and work accidents ac-cidents also occurred in that time, he reported. "The farmer usually is his own boss or employs only a few men, probably carries no accident insurance, insur-ance, and is not as conscious of the need fov safety measures as those employed in other industries," Dr. Young said. Accidents take an enormous toll every year, with victims not limited limit-ed to farmers, delegates to the safety safe-ty congress were told. Statistics show that there's an accidental ac-cidental death every 5 minutes, a traffic death every 18 minutes, as occupational death every 33 minutes min-utes and a home death every 15 minutes. National Safety council is a nonprofit, non-profit, non-commercial corporation supported mainly by industrial concerns. con-cerns. It hos 25 separate sections to deal with safety in every field. |
