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Page Fourteen BADIN bulletin Continual Carelessness Causes Casualties SAFETY DEPARTMENT ^ALLASSEE HINK SAFETY )OWER RACTICE SAFETY COMPANY AUTION safety Lost Time Accidents The following tabulation shows tke number of lost time accidents which oc curred throughout the plant during the month of September, 1920. A luminum Plant Lost time Days accidents lost Pot Room No. 22 0 0 Pot Room No. 24 0 0 Pot Room No. 26 0 0 Pot Room No. 28 1 2 Pot Room No. 32 1 2 Pot Room No. 34 0 0 Pot Room No. 36 -> 0 0 Pot Room No. 38 1 '7 Rodding Department 2 5 Pot Lining Department 0 0 Metal Loading 0 0 Re-Melting Department 0 0 Unloading Ore 0 0 Cleaning and Sweeping 0 0 Carbon Plant R. E. Lee 0 0 A. D. Howell 0 0 G. E. Biddix 0 0 W. R. Young 1 4 Elect7'ical Department Rotary Station 0 0 Power Houses 0 0 Motor Repair Shop 0 0 Miscellaneous Electrical 0 0 Machine Shop • E. N. Evans 0 0 M. S. Ragsdale 0 0 T. L. Chambers 0 0 Geo. Holt 0 0 Construction Department 1 7 Store Room 0 0 Reclchnation 0 0 Planing Mill 0 0 Traffic Department 0 0 Out of Experience We notice throughout the Works, a general tendency to [leave off goggles when doing dangerous work, especially in the machine shop. It was only a few days ago, when making a trip through the plant, that 'I happened to notice, upon entering the Motor Repair Shop, a rather intelligent looking man grinding something of a mechanical nature on the large emery wheel near the door. The sparks and fragments of emery and steel vfere flying in every) direction. Drawing nearer, I stopped almost di rectly behind |;he man at work, and I noticed a sign on the machine which read, —CAUTION— WEAR GOGGLES WHEN USING THIS MACHINE There was also hanging on the sign a pair of goggles within easy reach of the operator. The ^nan turned, looked at me for a few seconds, and then looked at the sign and goggles, as if to say “I know I should wear them, but I am fool ish enough to take a chancej” I then passed on to the machine shop. Upon entering the side door I saw two me chanics whom we are all acquainted with, as they are old men on the job, and because of the numerous accident reports and their names appearing pn the bulle tin boards. These men were engaged in chipping, which is one of the most haz ardous occupations a |man can follow, unless hisjeyes are well protected. When asked why they were not wearing gog gles, one of the men said he was going to put his on, and the other jsaid that if I wanted to make anything “safe” to have a platform made around Mr. Bid- dix’s crusher to work on. The foreman of the shop then walked up, and the men told him their chisels were whereupon they both picked up dull) their chisels and walked off. After talking the foreman awhile, I walked to the ciic xuj. j. ^ , lower end of the shop. There I notic® the same two men grinding their chis® ’ which are made of hard-tempered st ’ on the emery wheel, and the sign both of their eyes read: —CAUTION— WEAR GOGGLES WHEN USING THIS MACHINE and the goggles hanging upon it. And so I say: Breathes there a man with soui dead Who can’t get Safety thru his Who will not boost the work And wear his goggles where they long? If such a man be in our plant, What’s the reason why we can’t Treat him just as junk—No worth while, And put him on the old scrap d; Strains and Ruptures that yf Boys, whenever you have any work to do, by all means see th have sufficient help, and the proper ropes, chains, or hoists to do the Lately we have had a number of complain of straining their backs, oj rupturing themselves while engag® their work. No one expects you to do more you are physically able, much less foreman, and whenever you have s particularly heavy work to do, ask s foreman for assistance whenever sary. Ninety-five per cent, of all strain unnecessary, and are simply the re® THE BADIN SHOE SHOP FIRST- CLASS REPAIRING AT REASONABLE RATES Good stock of Shoe Accessories—Laces, Polishes Inner Soles, Rubber Heels, and Pastes B. A. HARDISTER Pine Street A GOOD PLACE TO EAt Albemarle’s new Cafe is thoroughly modem. The food and the service will please you. EFIRD’S CAFE ALBEMARLE. N- Main Street, next to Cash Bargain Store
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