The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
 OF STEEL CONCERN SHOWN IN REPORT
$126,O 100000 Spent In Year For Sanitation And
 Safety Work

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 The, staggering sum of $126, ,SS5011 vas expended by the United States, Steel corporation in its sanitation. safe ty and welfare department during the year ending December 31, 1923, ac. cording to the annual bulletin issued by Edward l.. Close, manager of the bureau, and released in Birmingham , Friday through the executive offices of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail road company. Of this sum. there were no provisions for the benefits and ad- ministration cost, which was $436, 6,861, nor the pension payment to employees. which was an additional $9,261,771.
 The. report is of such a. character as to have called from Judge Ebert H. Gary a strong letter of commenda- tion, which is made a part of the re- port and printed on the second page. The compliments of Judge Gary on the showing are expressed in the highest terms.
 The chief local Interest in the report is to be found in the fact that more than fl illustrations of welfare and safety work practiced and executed on the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company properties are shown in the bulletin. The Employees Hospital at Fairfield is shown with four illustra- tions, while the homes of two employees are Illustrated, one of them belonging to I. M. Cassidy and the other to Alex White of Ensley. They are included in group of typical homes, indicating the onward growth of the home-owning idea among employees of the steel corr poration.
 Report Diagramed
 The report by diagrams and tables illustrates the growth of the safety campaign and the clami is made that 39,ST4 employees have been saved from serious injury in IT years. It is also stated that PA, ,5S8 employees have been saved from injury in Il years. making a total of nearly 300,000 that have been protected during the period GOV cred by the tables. It is we'll known in this district that serious injury at n plant calls for rigid investigations, and q fatal injury is always looked upon as almost inexcusable.
 During the period covered in the report the corporation spent $22,3S2,9 ,945 for playgrounds, schools, clubs, gardens, visiting nurses and similar activities and equipment. In sanitation, which is one of the most carefully guarded and supervised departments of the cor poratiol, the company spent $24,S14,- Al In accident prevention in its plants, in cooperation with safety com mitttees and inspectors, the corporation Expended $11,951 ,432. To those men who were injured or killed in line of duty the sum of $37, ,215,0 900 was spent in relief of their families. The report indicates that $8,00o,O00 was set aside in creating the permanent pension fund.
 2s.451 Homes Built
 During the year, 2S,4 ,45l homes and boarding houses were constructed and either sold to employees or leased to them at low rentals The corporation built % churches and B schoolhouses, in addition to 66 lunch rooms On the properties, 2S3 rest and recreation rooms were installed while 19 swimming pools were provided. The corporation constructed 125 athletic fsldsaand 175 playgrounds, the latter for smaller chil- dren. Musical recreation was encour- aged to the extent of building 21 band stands. while 112 tennis courts were provided for the employees. In the wa ter supply the company protected 902 wells and springs from polluation, while 2.11S comfort stations were provided. Shower baths to the number of 5,722 were erected, with 13 base hospitals and 3S9 emergency stations.
 The report says that G6 training sta tions are maintained in rescue and first aid work and that the corporation em ploys 234 surgeons and physicians with outside surgeons to the number of 110 Ihe nurses number 235, while the cor poration employees n women as visit ing nurses, aside from the hospital staffs. In enforcing it's safety rules I30 inspectors are employed, while S4,- 4D1 employees have served on safety committees, with 1O,331 now serving on such committee. The company has trained more than 10000 employees in first aid work and have S63 in training at this time.