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Are You One Who Is "Accident-Prone" At Ecusta? ^ People Many Mines Cause Most Of All Accidents following article is issue of Cos- fstintj should prove inter- to everyone.) sprains his trokL gets his stub V ^ Do you ®verv fingers you Ki ® around? Do cijg , bad luck for these ac- d “Why does lining always happen to me?” [^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,,,,ii,,i,iii,,,i,i,,,,,m,im^iQ I What Would Happen Attention, All Employees! If. modern doctors are inter- ™.. you; you are what they H accident-prone”. They believe *ite attract bad luck and in^ uncon ’ction course of % 3^^ involves the greatest • ihey have many test ques* hj. accident-proneness; Do lit i-^^^^alties come at a conven- ea.n”?®’ iieiping you to avoid un- Un*K “teaching” some- gu ® kinder to you, or serving Jcteri attention? Do you char- jfegj^ ^^^lly love danger, but Do you feel guilty i a /^®iy after an accident, is'^.^iays later insist that it ^avoidable? Are you always ’Part f Is your health record, ?00(j, accidents, unusually tidpj. ^«ese ait symptoms of ac t-proneness. ^lajoL^i^^^overy that the great Ifss t. y of all accidents happen to ^ an one-eighth of the popula- icojvf^^ that these victims share psychological pattern, Se of that branch of med- \ with mind and body, ’''i'h k ^ study the way ®“iotioiis set up physical '^‘cin *^ay lead to spe- %.^^®sses; some specialists now ® tha tfour-fifths of all dis- not have occurred *ientv ^®^P pa- (lue unhealthy mental state, l^stiej^f^^on why accident-prone have few other aliments. is ^ey to this school, is that JHj]jj^®i®ase their emotion by " many risks, while other solve” their problems by jQg ing to disease germs. The 'scin’ cases, is largely un- iis, but none the less real. Ecusta, our analysis S\ J are having around 80 per SgjA the accidents. Isn’t there ?S you can do to get out Accident-Prone Class? d . Or Not Guilty? afraid of that, I’ve Poking for something like S(,? happen-" ?h is there an accident of in industry (or elsewhere) } d’o^ ^he bystand- i^ot talk it over among ,^b.; and expressions like the by “HANK” NEWBURY Qiiimiiniiiii,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, My Safety Program In the interest of my own safety and that of others, I promise my- I self that— 1. I WILL work safely on each job on which I am employed. 2. I WILL help others to work safely and will take an active part in the safety program of my em ployer. 3. I WILL observe safe practic es in my home and will teach my family always to follow safe ways. 4. I WILL inspect my home for hazardous conditions and correct any that may exist. 5. I WILL be a careful driver and will set an example of safe driving to others. 6. I WILL observe all traffic signs, signals and other traffic regulations, 7. I WILL make sure that each member of my family who drives a car becomes a safe driver. 8. I WILL discuss safety mat ters with my friends and neigh bors. 9. I WILL try to encourage in terest in accident prevention in the organizations of which I am a member and will try to influence each of them to carry out some definite safety activities. 10. I WILL support by my per sonal influence all the safety work carried on in my community. Hazards At Home , .g are common. The sad that these persons have ¥ . to become “second guess- Sj .®tead of doing something as a consequence k their comrades is injured. spoken to the em- t to A ^0 the foreman or forelady ^ safety department might \ ®aved an injury; slight, se- even fatal. Nh ^®iug too far to say that the ''^ho observed that danger day . , . the person who i ’^as afraid of that” ... but ^o^hing about it ... is to ^ in degree morally guilty of ihc,^?^ent himself?—Chrysler ^ ^lagazine. A serious injury to you at home would cause wage and other losses to your employer. Be careful of all home hazards, including the following: 1. Slippery floors and sidewalks. 2. Defective ladders and all makeshift supports. 3. Objects left lying on floors, walks, stairways, etc. 4. Broken or loose stair-treads; torn or loose stair carpet; stairs without handrails. 5. Electric lamps, extension cords, wall plugs, lamp sockets and switches in bad condition. 6. Never touch a light switch and some grounded abject such as a kitchen sink or a bathroom fix ture at the same time. 7. It is dangerous to approach a gas leak with an open flame. Call the gas company. If the leak seems serious, shut off the gas at the meter. 8. Never use gasoline or naptha for cleaning purposes; use only non-flammable cleaning fluids. 9. It is dangerous to carry scald ing water about the house in open pails. 10. Always open the garage doors wide before starting the au tomobile engine. Since arriving here nearly three years ago, it has been very no ticeable that no matter what wor thwhile requests have been made of the employees of Ecusta, Cham pagne and Endless Belt, they have all cooperated 100 per cent. This wonderful spirit has been out standing in sales of War Bonds, Red Cross Drives, Victory Gard ens, Recreational Activities and last but not least. The Prevention of Personal Injuries. Now, there’s another drive on and even though the request I’m going to make is fully sporsored by the Management of the three above corporations, the employees and the departments they work in will be the only ones to receive any of the benefits. “Won’t You Help Eliminate the Possibility of Serious Injury by Agreeing Not to Run Anywhere Inside the Mill Yard?” The age-old saying that “Haste Makes Waste” has been proven time and again recently and even though “experience is the best teacher,” why not let it be the ex perience of someone else? This request is not out of line when you stop and consider that the odds are enormously against you when you take unnecessary chances. For example: One of our employees here was running to work from the gatehouse recently when he fell and broke his right ankle. No doubt he would have saved 30 to 40 seconds through his haste, but the results were as follows: He lost 39 days from work, received only 60 per cent of his weekly wages while he was away from the job, suffered quite a bit the first two weeks, could not take part in any of his usual off-the-job activities, and last but by no means least, his department suffered the loss of an experienc ed man while he was out. You can readily see that haste does make waste and your coop eration in eliminating running in side the mill yard will be to your advantage. H. E. Newbury, Safety Director. lAFE Off-THE-JOB.-too HATIOHAl tAon eOUNOI STAY SAFE OFF JOB Boiled bamboo shoots. Army style, taste like asparagus. Not one ship has been lost in collisions with icebergs since the coast guard took up the task of patroling northern ship lanes fol- , lowing the Titanic disaster in 1914. Timely Suggestions For All Gardeners storage enables the garden to keep on supplying the table with vegetables during the fall and winter. The kinds of vegetables that can be stored without pro cessing make a much longer list than you might think. There is no need to guess about how to. store them if you follow directions in various bulletins put out by the agricultural colleges. If in doubt, get one. Store the best—the ones that are mature, sound, clean, fresh and of good size. Handle |;hem care fully sp they won’t be bruised. Don’t handle them wet. Don’t ex pose them to heavy frost before storing. Some kinds of frosted vegetables are not likely to keep so well. Half inch stems should be left on root crops. On pumpkins and squash leave two inches; if stems are shorter than that, leave all the stem on. Cold, moist storage is best for root crops and cabbage. If only a few heads of cabbage are to be stored, take the plants up with the roots and leaves attached and dangerous —the Old Man” and ashes, or a kid with matches? The Old Man” would probably say kids and matches, but the “Old Man” would be wrong. Here’s why. The loss from fire attributed to children and matches in 1940 was $2,400,000. That’s quite a loss, of course — enough for you to make sure your kids don’t get their hands on inatches. But the loss from fires started by ashes was about $4,500,000 almost twice as much. And — the man of the family usually handles the ashes! Fires in private homes alone in 1940 destroyed property valued at $81,000,000. A great part of the financial loss—and also hundreds of deaths—in home fires can be attributed to the furnace and its misuse. The National Safety Council says that you can prevent loss of property, suffering and death from fires in your home. A good place to begin is proper disposal of ashes. Use metal containers only. Ashes that seems to be out start many tragic fires when placed in wooden baskets or paper boxes. Be careful, also, not to overheat your furnace. Protect nearby walls or woodwork with asbestos cover- I mgs. Your furnace base can be made safe with brick or cement. Keep dangerous soot cleaned out of pipes and flues—especially before ' the first Fall fire. transplant them in a box of soil in a cool basement or cellar and keep the soil moist around the roots. Heads of cabbage, with roots off, will keep if laid on shelves in a cool, moist place. For out door storage, dig a shallow trench or pit in a well-drained spot, then stand, cabbages on their heads (roots attached) and cover with straw and a layer of soil. Warm, dry storage is what sweet potatoes, winter squashes and pumpkins ask for. Near the fur nace in a dry basement is not a bad place for these three. Slight breaks in the skin may start de cay. Slated crates or shallow boxes are fine for sweet potatoes. Pump kins and squashes can be laid on shelves in the basement. BIG DON’T for gardeners who store several different kinds of vegetables: Don’t store together the things that have pronounced odors. Cabbage, onions and tur nips are likely to give milder veg etables and fruits a case of bad breath.
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