The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-09
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 Have you ever seen what happens to a miners protective hard hat when it's hit by slab of rock?
 Such a hat is at the premiere of the Alaska Safety Exhibit, which opened last night at the American Federation of Labor Hall, IA Sec ond Street, and will be open from 2 to 5 and to 9 pm. today and tomorrow.
 Of course, the miners hard hat" is only part of the show, but a story goes with it.
 The miner, a large man of Scan dinavian extraction, had refused to wear g hard hat on the job, the story goes. The boss on the job, who didn't particularly like the miner but who didn't want to have hira die on the job, said. Wear 9 hard hat or find another job'
 So the miner got @ hard hat, and the first shift after he donned it a slab of rock fell from the top of the tunn and put a hole in the hat but d.an't hurt the miner.
 The hat IS at the exhibit. hole and all.
 And there is sals.y equipment and advice for one and all.
 For cold storage workers there are new types of durable over cloves into which can be put a hand already covered With an ordinary glove. Result: saving on glovc-costs and hands.
 For the women working in can neries there's smart cap with a snood. Last year, according to Ter ritorial Department of Labor re- cords, a woman in a KodiaS Island cennery stood too close to moving machine; the machines belts gen. 2rated static electricity; the static Electricity pulled the woman's hair into the moving belts; and she came close to being scalped. The hood is designed to prevent the ,epetition of such an accident
 For the housewife, there is advice on safety at home. prepared by the University of Alaska Extension Service and the Maryland Casualty Company.
 For the driver, there is a booth .rected by the Alaska Highway Patrol with photographs iilustrat- ing what can happen to cars and bicycles when safety precautions re not taken and laws are broken. And so the drivers will know what he laws are. there are plenty of booklets on driving regulations free.
 In word, the latest safety equip -aent and advice for people in all occupations is there to sec abra- i've floor covering, non-skid shoes for the feet of ladders, protective classes, soaps safe for eyeryone'a skin, latest models of prepared band ages, fire extinguishers broken town to show their operating parts, md gloves for every job.
 And to make clear the meaning )f the newly-published General Safety Code for Alaska, brought out
 fter conferences with representa- ives of labor and industry in Alaska, each exhibit contains a safety manual opened to the appro- priate section.
 All advice is in poster form. And some of the facts brought out are startling. For instance. did you know that lifting a 25-pound weight in your hands from the floor with your legs and back straight puts 75-pound strain on your back?
 It's so. And the reason is Illus
 'ated on Q poster headed, "Awk- yard Lifting Invites Strain"
 Most of the posters have been prepared by the National Safety Council
 Hit of the show is the exhibit Of
 esting equipment by the Indus- rial Hygiene Unit of the Territorial Department of Health There ls Q delicate microscope under which one can see a sample Of silica aust. the dust which causes dread silIcosis.
 There is a midget impinger" for catching samples of air. l. is shown in operation. 4 small harmless amount of a poisonous gas is re- leased, the impinger catches part Of it, and a test is performed which illustrates how air is analysed ia