 | Rhode Island - Law - 1890 - 422 pages
...obstructions or by falling from trains and engines, being 23 per cent, of the accidents happening to trainmen, and a large proportion of these accidents would be...adoption of the train brake on freight trains ; and gress of the United States, while action by the individual States on these subjects has produced, and... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1891 - 1326 pages
...that year in coupling and uncoupling cars, being fifty-six per cent, of all the accidents happening to train men, and practically all these accidents...regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance and is within the proper scope of the powers of the Congress of the... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1891 - 1022 pages
...adoption of uniform automatic couplers for freight cars; and WHEREAS, 558 employes were killed and 2,307 injured by overhead obstructions or by falling from...regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance, and is within the proper scope of the powers of the congress of the... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - Massachusetts - 1891 - 1128 pages
...employees were killed and two thousand three hundred and seven injured by overhead obstructions or t>y falling from trains and engines, being twenty-three...adoption of the train brake on freight trains, and Wltereas, The regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1891 - 1328 pages
...from trains and engines, being twenty- three per cent, of all the accidents happening- to trainmen, and a large proportion of these accidents would be...regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance and is within the proper scope of the powers of the Congress of the... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1891 - 1024 pages
...2,307 injured by overhead obstructions or by falling from trains and engines, being twenty-three p«r cent, of all the accidents happening to train men,...would be avoided by the adoption of the train brake or. freight trains; and WHEREAS, The regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - Massachusetts - 1891 - 1126 pages
...twenty-three per cent, of all the accidents happening to train men, and a large proportion of these accidenti would be avoided by the adoption of the train brake...regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance and is within the proper scope of the powers of the Congress of the... | |
 | Delaware - Session laws - 1893 - 730 pages
...for freight cars); AND WHEREAS it has been shown that twenty-three per Preamble, cent. (23%) of all these accidents would be avoided by the adoption of the train brake on freight cars; AND WHEREAS the regulation of couplers and of train preamble, brakes upon freight cars is of... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1891 - 1328 pages
...that year in coupling and uncoupling cars, being fifty-six per cent, of all the accidents happening to train men, and practically all these accidents...regulation of couplers and of train brakes upon freight cars is of pressing importance and is within the proper scope of the powers of the Congress of the... | |
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Five hundred and fifty-eight employees were killed and two thousand three hundred and seven injured by overhead obstructions or by falling from trains and engines, being 'twenty-three per cent, of all the accidents happening to train men, and a large... 