Improv6 Hand Truck Safety With These Simple Rules
By H. E. WILLIAMS, Safety Director
Most of you are familiar with the
various types of hand trucks we have
for handling materials about in the
plant. These trucks, if used correctly,
can make your job easier and safer.
Both 4-wheel and 2-wheel hand trucks
are available and you can choose the
truck best suited for the job you are
going to do.
Regardless of the type truck you use,
there are a few simple rules that will
help you:
Rules Given
1. Check the truck and make sure it
is in good repair.
2. Load the truck properly with the
center of gravity as low as possible
and so that it will not shift when
the load is in transit.
3. Watch where you are going so that
you can avoid collisions and pre
vent bumping others.
4. Make sure you can handle the
truck and control it on ramps, etc.
If you need help get it before you
start.
Most injuries from handling materials
with hand trucks can be eliminated. Let
me tell you some of the accidents that
have occurred so that you can better
visualize them. These incidents will
help you understand what might happen
and enable you to prevent such an acci
dent that might injure you.
Some Actual Cases
Bill was moving some castings at the
machine shop and one of the pieces fell
off the truck. The piece skinned his leg
and mashed his foot. Because he loaded
the materials improperly it fell off and
he was injured.
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Sam was walking backwards and
pulling a 4-wheel box which was filled
with wet sheeting. He was caught be
tween the box and a column of the
building and his leg was broken. He
could have prevented the injury if he
had pushed the box and watched where
he was going.
Ed was helping unload some goods
from a box car and backed up to let
one of the other truckers pass. He back
ed off the platform and fell to the rail
road track with the truck following
him. He received a back injury and was
cut and bruised by the truck falling on
him. This accident will show you why
it is important to watch where you aie
going.
Joe was helping load some cases to
go to storage in a hurry. Alter the
truck was loaded, Bill pushed the truck
and Joe’s toes were run over by the
truck wheel. This accident should teach
you to look out for those helping you
and make sure every one is out of the
way before pushing the truck into or
onto them.
Jack was pushing a box truck down
an alley and had his hands over the
sides of the box. His fingers were mash
ed between the machine and the truck.
He could have easily placed his hands
at the end of the truck between the
sides and thus eliminated the injury.
Adolph sprained his back pushing a
truck on the elevator because elevator
was left too high above the floor level.
You see that such injuries can be done
away with if we watch where the truck
is going.
So much for the accidents and in
juries. Much of the needless effort and
work can be saved and the job will be
easier if you will take time to oil your
trucks and keep the wheels rolling free.
Again I’d like to call your attention
to loading your truck, especially 2-wheel
trucks. By putting the center of gravity
of the load over the wheel axles you
can pull the load over small obstruc
tions more easily and there will be less
shock on the hands; also you will have
less of the load to carry and your work
will be easier.
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From Other Sections of the Company;
E. G. Vockroth, Richmond, Va.
H. H. Haig, New York.
G. L. Ivie, New York.
E. W. Mulvehill, New York.
From Other Firms:
E. S. Jamison, James Jamison Co.
E. V. Mezler, William Hengerer Co.
Stanley Tausend, Felix Tausend &
Sons.
W. L. Hubert, Burdine’s, Inc.
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Still Room At The Top
With but few exceptions, the men at
the top in our business and industry
have come up from the bottom
through their own efforts.
Benjamin Fairless, president of U. S.
Steel, was the son of a coal miner.
Walter S. Gifford rose from a $10-a-
week clerkship to be president of
American Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany. C. E. Wilson, after public school,
began work in the shipping department
of General Electric and went up step
by step to its presidency.
K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler
Motors, started as a machine shop
apprentice. M. W. Clement, president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, began as
a rodman. David Sarnoff, president of
the Radio Corporation of America,
started as an office boy.
Frank Woolworth was a $10-a-week
clerk with a family to support. He
believed in his idea that a lot of people
would buy in a store which sold need
ful articles for five and ten cents, so
he started one — with a pail of red
paint and $300.
The president of every one of the
many operating companies of the far-
flung Bell Telephone System is a man
who began at the bottom with a wage
of not more than $15 a week, and
worked his way up.
The list could go on and on and fill
many pages — of Americans who in
herited nothing more or less than the
urge to rise as high as they could —
and then did it, on their own.
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Because wages have gone up faster
than prices, the average factory em
ployee can now buy nearly three times
as much with an hour’s pay as he could
in “the good old days” around 1900.
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