Member, 1947
THE ECHO
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On Our Fingers And Eyes
Depend Our Livelihood!
jj • it true that the above man
''spare an eye? . . . And don’t
think the above picture
look much better with just
“«^es?
' who have been so unfor-
1*^ as to lose an eye, or to have
eye injury that necessitated
J^erous treatments, can fully ap-
the importance of protect-
one
s vision.
ij IJ^erous articles have appeared
^ his page in recent months with
^5®”ce to eye injuries in an ef-
to drive home, so to speak,
peat importance of wearing
when doing any work that
(,l'^ damage the eye. These ar-
will continue to appear pe-
{J?''ally, in hopes that everyone
k eventually become eye con-
s^Us.
'i(j^^’'e, the best possible medical
^ition is given all eye injuries
C^diately, and this fact is
out by the 5,067 miles of
that has been done on 29
II eases since January 1.
and please let this sink
about 50 per cent of the
(f. * 29 cases could have been
Iv ^>ted through the use of safe-
/‘ggles.
(r,^*^sonal goggles are furnished
Hj. ^0 those employees doing work
tejj.eould damaige their eyes, but
!|ij'*'8 said employees to wear the
i«iii seems to be the big prob-
should have to be
W protect their vision, and
effort should be made by
y. individual to see that those
k,"!? around them have full
J^ction.
employee who has been
Oti( eted to wearing a patch over
®J’e for a few days, and there
Jo ®®veral here who have had to
will tell you very frankly
Iff such a patch greatly inter-
X^with their daily routine.
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A BLIND
MAN’S PLEA!
“LET ME SEE”
I passed a blind man today, and
like most others, I passed him. I
didn’t even drop a penny in his
cup. His heart was probably empty
also. For, when his sight went out,
there also went out opportunity,
hope, and happiness.
To him all that remains is mem
ories of the wonderful work he
once knew—memories that tear at
his heart because of the accident
that robbed him of his sight—an
accident that could have been pre
vented—an accident that will hap
pen again and again until men
whose work endangers their eyes
learn to protect them. Eye in
juries really take a terrific toll
throughout industry.
Did you know that there are
eleven manufacturers of glass eyes
in the United States alone? . . .
They turn out bushels of artificial
eyes dally—grey ones, brown ones,
blue ones, but you can’t distinguish
daylight from dark through any of
them. If your work is such that
you may be subjected to an eye
injury, be sure to wear your gog
gles.
You can never tell when your
safety goggles will save your sight
—when that sturdy lens will stop
a flying particle that might other
wise rob you of nature’s most
precious gift.
If but once in a lifetime you are
exposed to the loss of an eye, that
time is of vital importancce, and
the best is not too good. Remem
ber that a blind man wants noth
ing but his eyes.
They Are Our
Wage Earners
99
THE SAME
OLD STORY
We can count the number of
personal injuries; we can figure
the cost in dollars and cents—and
oftentimes they make terrific sta
tistics.
But no one can ever measure
in any way, the suffering and pain
endured by the victims of the day-
in and day-out accidents.
The statistics often have a ten
dency to lull us to sleep—some
how they always seem to happen to
someone else—they never apply
to us.
But accidents cannot be looked
upon as general—they are the
most personal things in the world
when they do happen to us—for
they can hurt and maim and even
upset our lives.
It must be admitted that ’tis easy
to have an accident, but it is also
essy to avoid one.
It means remembering not to
take a chance—it means using ev
ery safety device that U made
■vaili(fe1« for ui>-an(l n»t counUni
Isn’t it rather ironical that the
two most important parts of our
body as far as earning a liveli
hood is concerned are the ones that
are being injured the most right
here in our plant? . . . Can we
visualize any job in our plant that
could be carried on efficiently by
some person who had lost their
fingers or their vision? . . . Isn’t
it true that few of us actually re
alize the important role these two
parts of the human anatomy play
in earning our weekly or monthly
“take home pay?”
Although the minor and major
injuries suffered by the fingers
and thumbs of our personnel are
not at our disposal in figures, they
have been very numerous each
week since the plant started op
erations. In fact, the loss of the
proportionate parts and sometimes
the entire digit, would actually
run into figures that would be
alarming. To be more specific, the
number of sutures taken to repair
lacerations to the fingers and
thumbs right here in our plant
would add up to a longer distance
than most of us would care to
walk.
However, a record is kept on
all eye injuries treated in First
Aid, and said cases are classified
by types as follows; 1—Flux, chips,
molten metal; 2—Cinders, dust,
foreign objects; 3—Driven par
ticles; 4—Acid, caustic, solvents;
5—Miscellaneous.
To give you an idea of the great
number of eye cases treated month
ly, we are listing by type the ac
tual number of cases from Janu
ary 1, 1947 through September 15
1947—Type No. 1—33; Type No.
2—144; Type No. 3—12; Type No
4—27; Type No. 5—29. A total of
245 cases in 8% r.i nths.
Even though rv / one of us are
proud of our p ic-less possession
of sight, it really seems that some
of us are truly neglecting to guard
it as we should.
Why can’t we all do a little ex
tra thinking about the importance
of our “wage earners”, and protect
them in every way possible?
on “It won’t happen this time.
Maybe it won’t, but we can never
count on that.
It means remembering to think
and stay on guard at all times—
knowing that our own personal
safety is at stake whenever we
take unnecessary chances.
Many of us have often said one
second too late: “If I had only
been more careful.”
One second before is the lime
to remember.
Pictured (By
One of the most dangerous haz
ards around industrial plants, is
depicted above. Although we have
experienced no broken bones due
to falls caused by oil spots, there
have been a number of cases that
resulted in bad bruises. It is the
responsibility of each of us to
watch for such hazards as this, and
to sec that oil spots are cleaned
up immediately.
On more than one occasion in
our plant during recent months, in
juries resulting from the above
unsafe practice have been treated
at First Aid. ’Tis true that the ma
jority of these cases have been of
a minor type, but there is always
the possibility of someone getting
seriously hurt on such sharp or
pointed tools. All employees of the
Maintenance and Electrical depart
ments should refrain from such
unsafe practices, and help elim
inate injury to themselves or to
others.
It is easy to be safe. It is easy
to find the best way of doing the
job. Insist upon finding that best
way. Perist In doing It that way
until it become^ a part pi you I
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