Show SAFETY TALKS J most hazardous occupation MOT NIOST farmers proba probably would scorn the use of indu steel toed safety shoes hard bard hats to protect their heads from falling objects and goggles with unbreakable len lenses sesto to ward off sparks from the grindstone and splinters from the woodcutting wood cutting power saw if thisbe this be true irmay it may possibly account for agriculture ranking first as the most hazardous of occupational enterprises the national safety council counell re ports that of fatalities in occupational accidents during 1937 agriculture bor or farm accidents contributed trade and service industries were responsible for another accidental deaths all ali other industries experienced fewer accident fatalities during that year the council said machinery and animals were thi the chuse cause of most fatal farm accidents machinery figuring in 29 per cent and animals in 21 per cent in order other farm hazards and the per cent of fatalities they caused were excessive heat 11 per cent falls fl 9 per cent vehicular hi cular 8 percent per cent lightning 5 per cent crushed by falling tree 4 pet per cent all others 13 per cent |