Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-06
1889 ACCIDENTS
DURING PAST YEAR
W. c. Garrison, Head of Statis-
tics Bureau, Complies Factory
Figures for 1911.
2,446 EMPLOYEES
OF RAILROADS INJURED
SO New Manufacturing Build
ings Erected and 80 Plants
Extended.
rFrom a stan Correspondents

IFr0m q STAN
TRENTON, N. j., Dec. 6.-Declar-
ing that the conditions prevailing IN
/ industry in New Jersey are fairly
satisfactory to both employers and
wage-earners, and that the changes
In working hours and wages during
the last year were few and involved
but little n the State Bureau
of Statistics today issued its report
for 1912.
Winton c. Garrison, Of Newark
head Of the department, has MADE
an interesting chapter in his report
on industrial chronology. The con-
tents of this chapter consist OF a
record of industrial accidents, their
causes and results, instances of total
and partial suspension of work IN
manufacturing plants, the loss OF
manufacturing property through fire
or flood, new factory buildings erect
ed and old plants enlarged, strikes
and lockouts and the formation oil
new trade and labor unions,
1850 Factory Accidents.
Tho report shows the total number
of accidents to workmen resulllhs
in serious injuries, such as resulted
in death or such degree OF
as rendered the victim incapable Oh
following his regular occupation LOT
more than one week, was 1883; OF
these 2O2 resulted in death instan-
taneously or in death shortly there-
after. The wage-earners included IN
this total are divided into i've occu-
national groups as follows: Factory
and workshops, total lumber injured
FOL; number of deaths, 66. Building
and construction, total number IN
iured, 1913; number of deaths, A. run
nelmen. miners, excavators, etc, to-
tai number of injured, 70; number OF
deaths, 26. Linemen II other cleo
trical workers, total number injured
SO; number of deaths, Y, and a group
under the heading unclassifed, which
furnished a total of 262 persons IN
iured, of whom A died.
The report presents minute SUD
divisions of the list of injured, accord
ing to the eauses or circumstances
responsible for the accident, and also
the physical character of the long list
of injuries which resulted from them.
2,44e II. r.. Employees Hurt.
The number of employees injured on
the steam railroads of the State While
In the discharge of their duties is re-
ported by the companies at 2.446, of
whom 70 died of their injuries. In
GUIDED in this list are all kinds nf in
juries, by far the largest part of them
of a character that involved prac-
tically no loss of working time.
During the year covered by the
chronology, the value of factory prop
erty destroyed by fire was s2,396,29o,
and for the same period the report
shows the completion of SO new fac
tory buildings, at an outlay of Sl,OSO.-
575, and the extension of SO old plants,
for which the amount expended was
$2,135, $50, making an aggregate total
of 49, PIG, 465. Deducting the loss by
fire, 81, 1896, 290, there remains a net in
crease in the value of property IN The
State devoted to industrial uses of
Ss20,175.
During the past year eight unions of
workmen organized, one each in
Perth Amboy, Hoboken, Bayonne,
Hackensack, Phillipsburg, Plainfield,
Nutley and Summit. Three If these
organizations were composed exciu-
sively of silk workers and Of en-
broidery workers. There was n each
of nainters and decorators, masons
and plasterers and laborers.