Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-30
All TEMPERATE FOR ENTIRE YEAR WITHOUT AFATAL
 ACCIDENT |S THE REMARKABLE
 RECORD MADE BY COPPER QUEEN
Company Has Also Gone for 16 Months Without Fatal Accident Underground; Cooperation Between Company Safety Department Deputy State Mining Inspector and Company Has Achieved Result Benefits to Miner Great

To have run all its properties for a solid year without a fatal accident, and to have gone through almost 16 months without a fatal accident un- derground, while an average of more than 2500 men have been employed, is the proud record which the Cop per Queen mining company has regis tered up to date. When it is taken into consideration that the company operates a number of mines under varying conditions, in addition to the vast open cuts of Sacramento hill, the care which has been exercised by the company and the cO-opera- tion which it has received from its foremen, shift bosses and the min CTS themselves, may readily be real show the worth, in dollars and cents as we'll as in human life and happi- ness, of the two words, Safety First" which have become the slogan of operation of this company.
 Cooperation Achieves Result
 The results which have been achiev- ed during the past year have come from strict coordination of effort be- tween the company's safety depart ment, of which w. w. Gidley is di- rector; the deputy state mining in spector, Ed. Massey, and the various company foremen. Assisting MT. Gid ley is the Central Safety committed composed of the following executives, foremen and miners.
 Arthur Notman, mining superin- tendent of the Copper Queen com pany, chairman; J. F. Sinclair, J. W. Poland, o. N. Alvin. J. E. Lin ming. A. M. Shock, George Mieyr, H. c. Javobs, Sam Verran, Patrick Beecher, Robert Sisson, Frank Brand enberg c. B. Shepard, Patrick Black, Theo. krantz and M Perea.
 This committee meets once a month, when it considers carefully everything concerning the better ment of working conditions in the mines and. in a special sense, the suggestions which may be submitted to it by the safety inspector and the men themselves. Every semploye of the company is at liberty to make a suggestion, and some of the most important operations of the central committee have come from these bits of advice from the men of the stopes and crosscuts.
 Instruct Men in First Aid.
 The work of the safety depart- ment begins with a course of in struction for the shift bosses and men in first aid. Classes are held continually at the headquarters of the department across from the E.. P. & IS. w. depot where the men are trained in practical first aid treatment for themselves and others. The men are paid S1 each for every lesson they attend. and the result is now that in practically no part of the mines or of Sacramento hill is there a body of men working without someone among them who is competent to render first aid in case of accident.
 The worth' of this system has been demonstrated in startling fashion sev- eral times lately. Tn one case, a Mexican working at Sacramento hill broke his leg while at work An. other Mexican. who had been attend ing the first aid classes, put splints around the injured limb, bandaged it carefully. and had the work done so we'll that when the workman was taken to the hospital, the physicians declared that the bandages would not have to be removed.
 Saves .Workman's Life
 Tn another case. a workman at tempted to swing on passing train