The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-04-29
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 safely first
call BE Careful"
Now comes the United St0tes labor
department and tells how many ways
You can get hurt by falling. There are
three Kinds of falling: U Failing
from a high place to the level; (2) fall.
ing from the level into place below
level; (3) falling while walking or
standing on the level
In the first classification we 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 n-fioors-ladders, scat
folds, staging-boilers, engines. ma
chines-piles, poles. trees, roofs, run
ways, balconies. platforms, gangplanks.
stairs and steps, tramways, trestles.
windows, walls and wall openings.
Ladders, by the way. are the worst
and trickiest Of all. More falls from
ladders than from any other high spots
are recorded. AS the safety engineers
classify ladder falls az You hit the
ground because the ladder broke or
step in the ladder went to pieces under
your foot; (2) either you slipped and
twisted or the ladder slipped and
twisted; (3) somebody or something
knocked you Off the ladder; (4) or
how it all happened was mystery.
Getting into Glass b, where the fall
is from the level into territory not on
the level, people fall into excavations,
pits shafts, bins, watts, floor openings.
man-holes. If standing or moving on
the level you slip or stumble, you got
into Glass G. stumble, however,
may be caused by fixed objects or loose
objects. A sleeping dog or 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, scaffolds
Stagings chutes, conveyors, slides
| stacked, stored or piled-up material
Also racks, shelves, machines, work
benches, temporary floors, trees. ditch
and trench cave-ins. mine and quarry
coal rock and ore.
Experiences with injuries due to
scuflling. larking or horseplay" are
noted in the federal labor depart
ment bulletin by Commissioner George
Kingston of the wOrkmen's compensa-
| tion board of Ontario, Can. A rail
way porter wrenched his foot but was
denied compensation because he was
larking with two young ladies' and
| showing them how nifty he was at
| jumping trains Claims were allowed
"where a Chinaman employed in a
factory was the innocent victim of
hOrseplay-blown up by hose; where
a man had been leased by another
workman suddenly turned in revenge
and hit an innocent party; where a
man about to punch the time clock was
hit from behind by another workman
injured man innocent of any horse
play"
All Of which gives us bunch as 10
what the electric signs mean blinking
late at night and early morning, "Be
Careful"