The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-21
SAFETY APPLIANCE LAW TO
Be STRICTLY ENFORCED
Owners OF Machinery Have Had Suf-
ficient Time to Conform to
New Statute.
DANGER OF PROJECTING SCREW
Catches Clothing OF Workmen and
Whirls Them Into Machinery.
Commissioner Doherty Explains
Provision of Statute.

The safety appliance law which was
enacted by the last Legislature. large
ly through the efforts of the state De-
partment of Labor. is to be rigidly
enforced. Commissioner of Labor
James d. Doherty has so advised the
!. inspectors of his stafr, who are now
in the field.
The act of Assembly, which was ap-
proved February 81, is designed 10
protect employees and the general pub
Tic from dangerous machinery. IT be-
came effective June 20. Most of the
larger manufacturing establishments It
is said, have already complied with the
provisions of the now law in the main
The prosecution of cases, 1t Is under
stood. is to begin when the plants
IN which, the machinery affected by the
statute is In operation, have had Il
,fair and reasonable time to meet the
new laws requirements
POINTS TO PERKS Of
PROJECTING SCREW
one of the chief points OF danger
which the safety appliance law is en-
pcctcd to eliminate. Commissioners
poherty explained yesterday afternoon,
Is the. peril of the projecting screw.
which is commonly found on the steel
and iron collars of whirling shafts
These shafts are on q hundred or more
forms and patterns of machinery
Where the projecting screw fastcns the
metal collar on the shaft the danger
is ever present. When the shaft Is
awhirl, the revolutions OF the collar
are so rapid that both collar and screw
become invisible.
Innumerable fatalities are on record
resulting from the menace of the pro-
jecting screw. The clothing of the
revolving screw, and the body drawn
into or against the machinery The
new law compels the substitution Of
the sunScn screw, 4 screw which is
set in the metal with It's head below
the surface, thus removing the danger
to- persons whose clothing happens to
come in contact with the moving ma
chincry. .a..
commissioner Doherty made the as
sertion during the hearing on the bill
at the last session of the Legislature
that the little screw in the metal col
lars on machinery shafting had cost
more lives than were lost in the lighting
at Seven Pines during the War Be-
tween the States.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
TO ENFORCE STATUTE
The enforcement of tho law devoIves
upon thc State Labor Department.
Section of the act reads in part as
follows: .t,....,'
The owner or person in charge of
tablishment where machinery is used
shall provide, in the discretion of the
Commissioner of Labor, belt shifters
or other mechanical conirivances for
the purpose of throwing on on off belts
on pulleys.r Whenever practicable, all
machinery shall be provided with loose
pulleys. All vats, elevators, saws,
planners. cogs, gearing, betting, shaft
ing, set screws. shapers and corner
machines, shall be properly guarded.
NO person shall remove or make lnef-
fectiye any safeguard around or at
tached to machinery, watts. or elevators
while the same are in use, unless for
the purpose OF Immediately making
repairs thereto. and all such sa safeguards
SO removed shall be promptly replaced
If machine or any part thereof Is
in dangerous condition, or Is not
properly guarded, notice thereof shall
be given 10 the owner or manager in
charge OF such operation and unless
such machinery Is repaired or made
safc within ten days after such notice
The use thereof may be prohibited By
the Commissioner of Labor, ana no
tice to that effect shall be attached
thereto Such notice shall not be re-
moved until the machine is made safe
ana the required safeguards are pro
Vided, and In the meantime such unsafe
or dangerous machinery shall not be
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