White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-17
SAFETY FIRST"
IS APPEALING
CONTINUED from page one.1

safety suggestions made by employees
are mentioned"
At Copper Flat all steam shoyels
are being equipped with smoke stack
~lcovers. a safety suggestion by an EN-
ploye and adopted TO meet condition
by Mr.. Vanderhoef. This is to pre-
vent the possibility OF sparks from
shovels flying and igniting powder
when blast holes are being charged
in the Immediate vicinity. While this
may not be considered a serious
source of danger. the possibility ex-
lists and the hazard is recognized
Another instance mentioned is at
the smeiter. the suggestion of Otto
Bauman. Permanent covers have
been fixed in place oyer the several
valve pits in the floor al the skimming
end Of the reverb. furnaces and pro-
ieeting lever handles % arranged
that the valves controlling the water
supply for graduating and slucing
the furnace slags can be operated
without removing pit covers. For
merry. re valve pits we're not always
covered and there Nas danger of
NorkmeE falling into the openings.
VITA Folded Arms. is another
sub heading il the editorial section.
wherein the writer goes on to say
that work accidents are as treaeher-
Gus an enemy as a Mexieano. doing
the most unexpected things at the
most unexpected time
n some instances a workman maf
think il requires q certain amount or
moral COURAGE 10 urge Safety First
upon his fellow Workmen. or. to sug-
gest accident prevention TO an en-
ployer who Is troubled with inertia.
He can console himself, however. in
the thought that the world has al
WAYS recognized that moral courage
Is far greater than physical courage.
And in a crusade against the eombin-
ed forces OF industrial hazards. in
ertia and indifference. a workman
must needs be possessed with courage
to enter the fight. 1t must be recog-
nized that inertia is as dangerous a
rampant carelessness, or irdiscrimi-
nate violation OF the ordinary rules OF
safety; and that Indifference. more
than positive opposition. affords a
condition that aborts rational effort
and renders progress OF the safety
movement impossible. The cause o.
Safety First would be better OF IL
men who do moi want TO take up arms
and enlist in active service for safety
would come out in the open and op-
pose it.
There should be no middle ground
no lifeIess. tame and passive inactiv1-
~, no mediation. Activity means
death TO industrial accidents-inertia
means death by industrial accidents.
In connection with efforts to pre-
vent so far as possible all work acct
dents. the management is also on
Quoting practical and systematic in
struction to employees in first aid to
the injured. In the department de-
voted to First Aid" the bulletin
says:
The fact that the value of prompt
and efficient first aid in injuries has
been recognized by our employees
needs no comment. The attendance
at the class lectures and instruction
meetings held by the resident physi-
clans at Veteran. Copper Flat and Nc
Gill. establishes the fact that men are
interested and are showing their APP
probation by careful application
given to the lectures and to study OF
the subject. Too much cannot be
said in the way OF commentator and
in appreciation of the good will of the
physicians in this work. They have
given freely and heartily of their
time, talent and service in the effort
to educate employees in first aid. And
the necessity of efficient emergency
service has been put before the men
from the surgeons standpoint. The
modern practice OF surgery requires
that dressings applied to wounds
shall not only look clean, but must
be aseptie, that is, surgically clean.
To the doctors, a piece of ~spotless
linen may be as dangerous as a dirty
rag, because 1t is not free from
germs. The doctor knows that If
germs, or certain invisible irritating
matter, finds Judgment in a wound
from the bandage or dressing,
or from contact with the cloth
ing or the hands, or from n
source, the consequence of such con-
tamination may be blood poison, gan