Safety: Bulletin of the American Museum of Safety, Volumes 2-3The Museum, 1914 - Accidents |
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29 West accident prevention Albert R Shattuck American Museum Arthur Williams Chairman awarded B'way Baltimore Bldg Board Boston Boston Elevated Railway Brooklyn Buffalo Bulletin cent Charles A Doremus Chicago Cleveland Company's Copper danger Department Dr Charles Dr Frederick Dr George F E. H. Harriman Education efficiency Elbert H Elbert H Gary employes Engineers exhibit Exposition of Safety F Kunz Chairman factory fire Frederick L Hoffman Gas and Electric George F Kunz George Gilmour Harriman Memorial Henry D Whitfield illustrating injured James Speyer Labor Light and Power machines Manitowoc Mass Milwaukee Museum of Safety Norman E Ditman Ohio operation organization passengers Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia plant President Pullman Company Railroad Safety and Sanitation Safety Committee safety devices Safety League sanitary Southern Pacific Speyer Steel Tidewater Southern Railway tion Traction ventilation Wabash Railroad West 39th St Western Maryland Railway William H Tolman workers York City
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Page 102 - Accidents to employes resulting in slight injuries which do not prevent the employe injured from performing his accustomed service for more than three days in the aggregate during the ten days immediately following the accident should not be reported.
Page 218 - Except as in this article otherwise provided the person or persons, company or corporation conducting or operating a factory whether as owner or lessee of the whole or of a part of the building in which the same is situated or otherwise, shall be responsible for the observance and punishable for the nonobservance of the provisions of this article, anything in any lease or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 164 - Act, no person shall, except during the permitted " hours (a) either by himself, or by any servant or agent, sell or supply to any person " in any licensed premises or club any intoxicating liquor...
Page 164 - In determining whether an offence has been committed under section six of the said Act by selling, to the prejudice of the purchaser spirits not adulterated otherwise than by the admixture of water, it shall be a good defence to prove that such admixture has not reduced the spirit more than twenty-five degrees under proof for brandy, whisky, or rum, or thirty-five degrees under proof for gin.
Page 15 - ... and the general public in regard to the causes and prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases and related subjects.
Page 11 - I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently. You are warned against me, but you heed not. I am relentless. I am everywhere, in the home, on the streets, in the factory, at railroad crossings, and on the sea.
Page 126 - In certain buildings where the results of changing from poor to good ventilation have been carefully observed, a marked improvement in the general health of the occupants has been manifest. For example, the records of the United States Pension Bureau show that, when the offices of the department were located in scattered and poorly ventilated buildings, 18,736 days were lost by employees through illness in one year, and about the same number for several successive years. When the department became...
Page 183 - Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.
Page 197 - If you make an opening or remove the cover from any opening in floor, ground, valve-pit or sewer, guard that opening so that no one can fall into it. 9. Do not pile any material so high it is liable to fall or cause another pile to fall, or allow it to lean against walls too weak to bear the pressure. 10. Commit no nuisance, be clean, and help to keep the plant clean.
Page 218 - All grinding, polishing or buffing wheels used in the course of the manufacture of articles of the baser metals shall be equipped with proper hoods and pipes and such pipes shall be connected to an exhaust fan of sufficient capacity and power to remove all matter thrown off such wheels in the course of their use. Such fan shall be kept running constantly while such grinding, polishing or buffing wheels are in operation...