Citation

Flyzik MJ. Saf. Eng. (Albany) 1920; 39(3): 113.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1920, A. H. Best)

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Abstract

We have for many years held to an old orthodox theory that the enormous economic waste and the sacrifice of priceless human flesh that is being annually exacted by industrial accidents is an unavoidable toll levied against the "hazard of the business," rather than a lack of proper mechanical safeguarding or carelessness, or by both...

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".

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