White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-12
MONTHS ACCIDENT RECORD.
From Safety First For June.)


for the month OF June is the clean
slate OF two Of the operating plants.
Not > single accident resulting in
personal injury of any kind occurred
icentrator there were no disabling ac-
cidents. The employees Al the open
pit steam shovel mine and the smell
terry suffered more seriously. There
was a total of twenty accidents,
causing disability periods of from
one TO sixty days-two or three o.
the casualties being of rather a SER
ious nature. Reference to the res
pectiye accidents records herein after
following will show. that:
At the Veteran mine. as above
stated. there were no personal in
jury accidents-and this was not an
accident. Ii was the direct result of
effort on the part OF superintendent
Mcdonald and his engineers and fore
men. and of cooperation and sup
port of all employees. 1t is the
achievement OF men who are vitality
interested in the prevention of ac-
eidenfs.
At Copper rlat there we're fifteen
disabling accidents. many of then
.lpreventable. There may have been
three or four OF the casualties which
could be classed as unavoidable. bur
rhe others were simply the result OF
carelessness on the part of the H.
jured persons or of neglect on the
part OF foremen. The spirit of Safe
II First will have TO haunt the shovel
miners with more frequent visits
and urge its presence with more
vigor. Accidents can be prevented
If men viii but have faith in the
company's efforts and belief in the
efficiency of personal endeayor. IT
Safety First 10 believe is 70 achieve
Al the Concentration. as stated
above. not one disabling accident oc-
Cured to mar the record of the mill
men for the month. This beats the
May months record BY four days.
m man having lost four DAYS time
IN May. Such a record LAYS stress
upon the fact that Safety is not I'M
~attainable. and emphasizes the claim
frequently made by the Bulletin that
personal injury accidents can be
avoided Il the foremen are in earnest
and II Rorkmen will cooperate With
them.
At the Smelter. the casualties
during the month were fewer in
number. but there were two or three
personal injury accidents Of rather
serious nature. None OF them can be
eiassed as wholly unavoidable. and
but few of them can De said TO be
incidental IN strictly smeltery opera
lions Investigation SHOWS thai
practically all were due to careless
ness or neglect of proper precaution
by the injured men.
II the foremen and mel in charge
of employees AT the Smelter would
give the same intense and constant
attention TO the cure of ignorance
and careiessness of their employees
as foremen or other departments do.
the Smelfer accidents could be re-
dueed 10 a minimum. Attack the
cause-and not the results of ac-
.eidents-
Cooperation in Accident Prevention.
In attacking the problem Of pre-
venticn Of mine and works accidents
the Bulletin has tried 10 show that in
its effort TO safeguard lis employees
from risks and hazards. the Com
panys ability Is increased and is
efficiency multiplied IN proportion 10
the interest the employees take IN
the movement EndeaTor nas been
made 70 encourage each and every
workman 70 understand and appreci-
ate hat he Is an actual. vital factor
in the night for Safety.
Compare the accident record OF the
Nevada CONSOLIDATED mines. mil an
shelter for the 6rst six months OF
the year 1913. With the current SIX
months ending June seth. 1914. and
see what cooperation has achieved
IN the reduction OF accidents. TIE
figures. compiled from monthly re-
cords. show that there are over two
Thousand FIVE hundred men rsgularlr
employed in the various Branches o.
the service. and that during the hrsi
six months of 1913 there we're six
fatal accidents. as compared with
only one for the corresponding
period of six months in 1914. Of dis
abling accidents. including the minor
ones causing loss OF even one days
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