| Show P. P Means Mean's Besl Bes Friend Censuses Causes es Most Farm A 0 Old Dobbin may be mans man's best friend friend but 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. H Herman Hennan Young of the Mayo I clinic Rochester Minn told delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates to the farm safety section of the National Safety c councils council's national safety congress in Chicago Life on farms is full fun of peril Dr Young asserted pointing to a nine- nine year survey of farm ac accidents made under joint auspices of Mayo clinic and the safety council which disclosed that farmers were killed at work during the period About farm residents were killed accidentally and non-fatal non farm home and work accidents accidents accidents ac ac- ac- ac 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 insurance insurance ance and is not as conscious of the need for safety measures as those employed in in other industries Dr Young said Accidents take an enormous toll ton every year with victims not limited limited limited limit limit- ed to farmers delegates to the safety safety safety safe safe- ty congress were told Statistics show that theres there's an accidental accidental accidental ac ac- ac- ac death every every 5 minutes a traffic death every 18 minutes an occupational death every 33 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes and a home death every 15 minutes National Safety council is a nonprofit nonprofit nonprofit non non- profit non-commercial non corporation supported mainly by industrial con con- cerns It has 25 separate sections to deal with safety in every field |
