| Show national farm safety week making effort jo to reduce heavy loss burden deaths can be eliminated in agricultural areas farmers and their wives and children as a rule are too busy producing food for wartime america to have any time to go hunting for danger and death nevertheless government safety officials declare back home on the farm is far from being the safest place in the world to live trouble is safety engineers point out that accidents dont wait for people to go looking for them they just happen and they happen mostly to td people like farmers who are too foo busy doing an important job to think about how to avoid accidents calling attention to americas continuing need for the skill and labor of her farmers president truman said 1 I urge farm people everywhere to observe national farm safety week by making a safety check in their homes and on their farms I 1 all persons and eions concerned with agriculture and farm life to do everything in their power to educate farm people in the proper precautions by iby which they may eliminate farm hazards president truman has proc proclaimed july 22 to 28 23 as national farm safety week burns usually rank second in importance on the farm home accident list causes include careless smoking the use of kerosene i in n starting kitchen fires placing pans of boiling liquid too close to the edge of a kitchen stove as well as many other instances of haste or carelessness or both records show that if parents make sure at all times that firearms farm front casualties the following figures are based on statistics from pearl harbor to january 1 1945 during the same period total war casualties of U S forces both army and navy amounted to these figures are for farm residents only killed injured killed on job killed in traffic killed in homes injured at work injured in traffic injured in homes and poisons are out of reach of their children accidents to children in the farm home will be considerably reduced among leading causes of work accidents on the farm is the improper use of farm machinery 1 knives belts pulleys gears and the like are necessarily a part of farm machinery the greatest caution should always be exercised in order to operate them without accident to the person improper handling of animals causes many farm work accidents while bulls are the cause of many serious injuries the greatest number of accidents due to careless handling of animals is caused by horses records show pledge of cooperation falls are also high on the list of farm work accidents better housekeeping methods in the farmyard the barn and other farm buildings can materially reduce the number of accidents attributable to falls among farm leaders who have pledged their cooperation in the work of national farm safety week are edward S oneal president of the american farm bureau federation james G patton president of the national farmers union and A S goss master of the N national grange president Tr suggestion that farm people make a safet safety check in their homes and on their farms if followed will be the greatest single stop step that can be taken toward reducing accidents on thee the farm maynard H coe director of the farm division of the national safety council said he pointed out that the councils farm accident records taken from states that keep a file of statistics on farm mishaps clearly indicate the types of accidents which should be attacked first in i n any personal checkup check up falls most common the records show for example that falls occur in the farm home far more frequently than any oth other er type of accident such things as cluttered stairways unsound ladders badly lighted hallways all of which can be corrected by good housekeeping are major hazards away from the farm traffic accidents are the most serious menace for farm people it is expected that a serious problem will arise on the highway when traffic again hits the peak of prewar years and 01 div IFF rr K 30 N 4 af V v upper photo shows risk of opera operating ng a saw without a guard second photo hoto shows one cause of a annual farm fire loss smoking in n farm buildings third photo phot shows hows that rickety and cl cluttered u tere stairways airways add to the annual killed kille ind and injured list lower photo phot loaded faded or unloaded neither are ai safe within reach of a child many are killed by unloaded guns annually grea greater ter driving skill and care than ever before will be needed there are arc many other types of accidents which contribute to the annual toll on the farm mr coe said but the examples given point the way for both individuals and organizations izat ions to make best use of a farm safety checkup check up during the week mr coe concluded his remarks by saying that early reports com Q pa mell that his bis place is in the drivers driver s seat instead this farmer should know fonow happiness to save sav e a few seconds by disobeying t of he lifetime risks a machin machinery cry only when at a full stop a cardinal safety rule ot of adjusting and then from the ground |
