Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-01
The Incident Rate in America.

JeWelry factories ...,......'... W
Clothing makers .....,....... 81
The Aoridcnt Rate In America.
That's ono accident for every ten
men In twenty leading industriesl
Some Of the injuries caused disability
for less than a day, but some of them
brought death. Some meant blind
ness, OF the loss Of limbs, lnValidism
fer years, or perhaps n lifetime.
Wallace u. Yaple, chairman of the
industrial commission Of Ohio makes
n conservative estimate that S55, $50
accidents occur yearly in this cotn-
try in manufacturing, mining and
iconmercial enterprises. Anxious not
to overstate, he sets the fatalities al
about 5000. Gettysburg has the repu-
tatlon of having been pretty de-
structive battle The figures for Get
tysburg battle are; Killed, $3.50;
wounded, 27.206; missing. 1854;
total. 43.t54.
The United States Bureau of La
Dor estimates the total mortality
from accidents in the United States
to be between $4,000 and 5000 am
! nually, and the non-fatal accidents
are given at approximately 100000.
1 OF tho non-fatal accidents 1,000,0 900
occur in the manufacturing and me-
chanical pursuits,
/ The data which the records Of the
Massachusetts, Industrial accident
board make available are interesting.
The industries of that state are va
ried.
The Losses In Days Work.
The accident figures for Massachu-
sets for the year ending June 30,
1914 are: Non-fatal, 95,96S; fatal,
COS. Never had the people of the
state been better educated In the
principles of safety first; never had
the conditions surrounding industry
been SO good.
The employees in Massachusetts in
this period lost, as a result OF indus
trial injuries, $3,172,440 in wages
The employers lost the services OF
experienced workmen for 1,t97,737
working days The economic loss to
the employers through the substitu-
| ton of less efficient workmcn was
upward of 100000.
Accidents don't pay.
Half of them are preventable, the
board asserts. through practical mea-
sures which are rapidly being adopt
ed In Massachusetts (areely, by the
way. in conjunction with, or as a
consequence of the compensation
law,)
Fatal accidents, COS. Think of saw
ing 3Oi lives year for industrial
production. But think of saving them
for the workers themselves and their
families.
In the year under consideration, II
we take as basis the number Of days
lost, S,992 persons were constantly
disabled for q full year.
The average duration of disability
as q result of accidents swas 12.4S
days.
/ Wages of the Injured.
OF the workmen killed or wound
ed l4.S per cent were receiving wages
u % OF TESS ol-- per cent WAGES Oh
Si2 or less; 1875, SIS or less. How
much do YOU suppose YOU could lay
up for rainy day on $S week. or
$i2, or SIS? How would you like to
get into the accident class whatever
your salary or bank account?
/, The average income of the indus
trial worker in the United States is
$500. In manufacturing industries it
Is S5s0. Is per cent of the workers
receiving less.
The Russell Sage Foundation has
estimated that an income under $500
is not snificient to permit the main
tenanee of normal standard of liv-
ing for family consisting of man,
wife and three children.
Well, when an Industrial accident
takes away from the wage-earner his
income OF $500, and he has to pay
doctors bills or go without medical
attention. he's hard up.
Forty Years or Younger.
| Consider. too. that besides the time
Host to production and wage earning