The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-06
WATCH YOUR STEP
Nothing Lost by Keeping in Mind
safety First.'
Government Bulletin Lists Varieties Of
Accidents in Industries That Might
Easily Be Avoided by the
Exercise Of Care.

Electric signs blink the slogan. "Be
| CAREFUL" around the big mills. From
! mothers apron strings to the latest
newspaper the voices of safety first
call BE CAREFUL"
Now comes the United States labor
department and tells how many ways
you can get hurt by falling. There are
three kinds of falling: % Falling
from high place to the level; (2) fall
ing from the level into place below
level: CD falling while walking or
standing on the level.
In the first classification W" find all
kinds Of high places to fall from. In
the card indexes of the safety en-
gineers they have records Of people
falling from benches. boxes. chairs,
tables bridges. dams and docks, cranes.
elevators, derrickS. hoiSts--elevated
bins, pockets. tanks falls from but not
falls intO) buildings in construction
or demolition n"orS-la,lderS, scat
folds, staging boilers. engines. ma
chines-plcS, poles, trees roofs. run
ways, balconies. platforms. ganypIlnks.
stairs and steps, tramway$. ,rrStles.
windows, walls and wall openings
Ladders, by he way. are the worst
and trickie>t Of all. More falls from
ladders than from any other high spots
are recorded. As the safety engineers
classify ladder falls: Cd You hit the
GRO IN 1,I I,rr
step in the ladder went to pieces under
your foot; GU either you slipped and
twisted or the ladder slipped and
twisted; (3) somebody or something
Knocked you off the ladder; (N or
how it all happened was a mystery.
Getting into Glass 4, where the fall
is from the level into territory not on
the level. people fall into excavations.
pits shafts, bins. vats, floor openings
If standing or moving on
the level yon slip or stumble, you get
into Glass G. 4 stumble. however,
may be caused by fixed objects or loose
objects. A sleeping dog or a hunk of
pig iron may trip up the feet that do
not respectfully elevate.
The number of falling objects that
knock people down and get their
names into the accident records are
collapsing buildings, walls, scafo'ls.
stagingS, chuteS, conveyorS, slides |
stacked. stored or piled-up material.
Also racks shelves, machines. work I
benches temporary floors, trees. ditch |
and trench cave-ins. mine and quarry !
coal, rock and ore.
Experiences with Injuries due to
larkins or horseplay" are
noted in the federal labor depart |
ment bulletin by Commissioner George
Kingston of the wOrkmen's compens:l-
ton board of Ontario, Can. A rail
way porter wrenchcd his foot but was
denied compensation because he twas
|arkins with two young ladies' and |
showing them how nifty he was at
jumping trains. Claims were allowed !
"where a Chinaman employed in Il
factory was the innocent victim of
horSeplay-blown up by hose; where
4 man had been teuscd by another
workman suddenly turned in revenge
and hit an INNOCENT party; where a
man about to punch the time clock was
nit from behind by another workman.
INJURED man innocent Of any horse
)lay.'
All Of which gives us Il bunch as to
What the electric signs mean blinking
ate at night and early morning. BE
CAREFUL