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Show Millions For Safety During the past nine years United States railroads have spent, on the average, 40 million dollars annually to increase the safety of rail transportation. transpor-tation. This does not include maintenance or operation of safety devices that have already been installed, interest or taxes, or the additional millions spent for better equipment and improvements im-provements which are indirect contribution con-tribution to safety. The result of these vast expenditures expendi-tures nas been that safety of travel has increased over 100 per cent in five years. In 1923 the average wai one fatality for each 24 million passengers pas-sengers carried; last year it was but me for every 49 million passengers. The total fatalities in 1928 among passengers was 16, as compared with 79 in 1926 and 83 in 1925. Five times as many deaths occurred each day in automobile accidents as there were railroad passenger fatalities during the entire year. The record in improving the safety of employes equals this. In every phase of operation the railroads have taken steps to eliminate hazards and lower the risk on any hazards that are unavoidable. |