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Show Engineer Corps Has Half the Accidents Of Private Industry The army's corps of engineers has achieved a reduction of 45 per cent in accident frequency and 31 per cent in accident severity below that of private construction. As compared with the accident rates for the five-year period, 1936 to 1010, it is estimated that the engineers' en-gineers' safety program during the past two fiscal years has saved more than 1,000 lives, averted 34,908 lost-time lost-time injuries, and prevented the loss of 6.306.374 man-dajs, wiLh the saving sav-ing in wages of workers amounting to $46,604,104. Regulations of the corps, rigidly adhered to, require that all losj-time accidents on construction projects over which the corps has jurisdiction jurisdic-tion be reported. The statistics so gathered, comprising the greatest mass of construction accident statistics statis-tics and case histories ever assembled, assem-bled, have shown what practices cause the accidents, thereby enabling en-abling the engineers to take preventive pre-ventive measures. Strict Code Enforced. When the army's construction program pro-gram was expanded in 1941 to the greatest the world has ever known, specific uniform safety requirements were established by the engineers and compliance enforced in all construction con-struction contracts. Outstanding among the requirements require-ments were those providing for mobile mo-bile first aid stations; central Infirmaries In-firmaries staffed with trained nurses under the supervision of one or more full-time physicians on all projects where a thousand or more workers were employed; the employment of a full-time safety engineer on all similar projects, and the maintenance mainte-nance of a first aid log at all field stations and infirmaries. The current program is placing i the most stress on the proper use of r heavy construction equipment which, f although responsible for but 25 per rccnt of the total injuries, causes up sto 52 per cent of the time lost in it all accidents on construction proj-n proj-n :cts. |