Chath am Blanketeer
Vol. 5 FEBRUARY 27, 1939 No. 14
Oldest Employees of the Winston Mill
Front row, reading from left to right: Mrs. Lola Holcomb, 25 years; Mrs. Ethel Bell, 11 years;
Miss Della Chambers, 20 years; Berry Cranfill, 30 years; E. I. White, 25 years. Back row, left to
right, Joe Day, 26 years; Bruce Lewis, 30 years; Thurmond Eldridge, 25 years; Harvey Wishon, 21
years; Clyde Minnish, 22 years; Ralph Gentry, 20 years; Bill Golden, 38 years, and R. W. Harris, super
intendent of the Winston plant, 15 years. All of the above employeesi have never had a lost time ac
cident.
The Foremen Write Concerning
Safety In Their Departments
Accident Rate in
Winston Plant Is
Lowest in History
The record for the Winston
mill shows that we have had dur
ing the year an average of 665
employees on the payroll and
only twenty-five accidents re
quiring medical attention. Two
of the twenty-five accidents were
compensible while three were lost
time but not sufficient for com
pensation. This record sums up
as follows: Twenty-five accidents
requiring medical attention, five
out of the twenty-five resulting in
lost time, two out of the five
compensible and three cases with
two or three days lost time but
not sufficient for compensation.
The year 1938 exceeded all prev
ious years in the number of em
ployees on the payroll and the
record of twenty-five accidents is
the all time low in the history of
the Winston Mill.
We are deeply appreciative of
the fact that our employees are
beginning to realize more and
more that to be a good depend
able worker one must be a safe
worker. We believe that the peo
ple in the mill are working hard
to cooperate with their foremen
and employers toward making a
record which will be the envy of
other mills in our district. Our
record for 1938 was good, why
not try to make 1939 another
year with fewer accidents than
last year. This can easily be
done if all decide to put forth an
effort with a record buster in
mind.
I want to end this statement by
congratulating all of the people
in the mill who have a perfect no
accident record. I especially
have in mind those who have
been with the mill for a long pe
riod of years without an accident.
We have some people on record
v/ith fifteen to eighteen and
twenty years service without an
accident. We have others with
eight, ten and twelve year no ac
cident records; still others with
fewer years service without acci
dents. I think that all of our
people deserve honorable mention
for their splendid spirit of coop
eration in making the 1938 Safe
ty record possible. May 1939, as
v/ell as other years which come
gnd go, find our record improving
year by year.
R. W. HARRIS,
Superintendent
WASHING DEPARTMENT
A survey of the Washing De
partment shows seven men in the
department who have an accum
ulative total of 145 years without
an accident, four of these having
a total of 101 years without an
accident. The record for the past
twelve months shows only six ac
cidents with 150 employees, and
only two of these were serious
enough to cause any loss of time.
We hope that as a result of the
renewed Safety Drive that 1939
will show no lost time accidents
in this department.
S. A. Boose, Foreman
NAPPING DEPARTMENT
The Napping Department has
enjoyed a very successful year in
regard to safety. During this
time we have had in our depart
ment one hundred and sixty em
ployees and of that number only
five have needed medical atten
tion for injuries received while at
work. However, not any of this
number lost any time from work
on account of the accident. We
as a department are very proud
of this record and we are even
more enthused over the record of
Mrs. Ella Jarvis who for fifteen
years has not had an accident
that caused her to lose any time
from work. W. T. Hensley and
Fred Hensley have similar rec
ords for fifteen years; Dawson
Cozart, ten years; Robert Merrit,
eight years; and Page Brannon,
fifteen years.
In order to have a department
with as few accidents as possible
we will have to be trained along
lines of safety and keep its prin
ciples always first in our minds.
Ths cause of most accidents that
do occur are not due to faulty
mechanism of the machinery or
to ignorance on the part of the
person who operates it. More
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