Citation

Saf. Eng. (Albany) 1914; 27(6): 456.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1914, A. H. Best)

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Abstract

A noteworthy fact in the safety bulletin of the Milwaukee-Western Fuel Company was the record of a decreased percentage of accidents that were due to carelessness, as compared with previous months. The statement was that it would be discouraging to continue the work of the safety department were it not for such evidence of greater care on the part of the workers. It was intemated that in the matter of greater care there was room for continual improvment. One of the men engaged in unloading cars stepped on a nail which protruded from a board on the ground.... Reviewing the safety work during teh winter, the bulletin said that on account of the mild weather, and the consequent slacking up in the coal trade, it would be been necessary for the company to lay off many men, but they were kept employed installing safety guards and making repairs. Although the yards had been recently inspected by engineers of the state industrial commission, the liability insurance company, and the company's own management; the suggestions the company received from its employees were most highly valued because, "the men who work at a plant day in and day out are the only ones who can recognize all the points of danger."

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".