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NOVEMBER, 1944 THE ECHO PAGE SEVEN Accident Record At Ecusta Is Above Average miHPAKlSON OF FICDRES SHOWS HOW WE STAND ^*^uency And Severity J^ates Are Better Than The National Average By H. E. NEWBURY - Based on the 1943 INJURY Wes by industry, as re- ®ased through the National Safe- y Council, it is interesting to that here at Ecusta, the fre> Viency and severity rates are ^Uch lower than the average rates aroughout the United States and ®*iada. As a comparison, note the fig- below, as compared with ^ose on the chart shown to the ^ight: Ecusta 1^2 Frequency 17.3, Severity .72 » 5.7 » .03 ” 10.1 ” .16 'This reduction in accident fre* HUency and severity here at our Plant means less suffering for our Personnel as a whole, and the cred- ^ lor this reduction goes to each every employee on our pay-! y Without your full co-opera- in accident prevention work, Moubt our rates would be some- ""Xit-higher. Our frequency ana severity rates de^crease as your interest in- Sjses in the PREVENTION OF "^^Rsonal injuries. ACCIDENTS Around The Clock order to give you a clearer w^ttire of accident cases here at Champagne and Endless an analysis has been made of Cases during 1942, ’43 and ’44, required sending a report to iiisurance carrier. (It is neces- that we file a report on cases fj ®’ving loss of time. X-rays, dis-, ^rement, or any outside medical L Turing the above three years we a total of 286 such cases, ..'‘102 of these resulted in loss ^ time. is interesting to know that 205 ^ih 1 injuries were suffered by who have been on their l^^ctive jobs six months or » ier, and bears out the fact that 5^ ®lder employees in length of are having the majority accidents, jg^^nother interesting fact is that cent of these cases were ji^Seable to our male person- '“Ut represent 63 per cent of total number of employees. cIq let’s take a look at the ®t right as to the hours in these accidents occurred. ® find that there were 122 Hii ^ between 12 noon and 6 p. m., li. ^^'ipared with 59 cases from 6 We midnight. ’Tis true we 6^5 ® greater number of employ- duty from 12 noon ’til 6 p. ^ should there be a 100 per ^^^crease in the number of ac- 3ts? were 27 cases from 12 to 6 a. m., as compared leads us to believe t«e safest six hours to work at f/,me tm ’ IOM(B ''^01 ^ UiAiT j BY INDyST^Y IfQUENCY SEVERITY nnmr pi/nfiooMAH-mm aaMi/wttTioiis JifBiEIWiCE 17B COMMUKIttTJONS *IR«*FI«K ELIEaWttLtill/IP, suMrfnttti iUrOMOBILE mKTWCiLfUB, mmt Al8S» MACHIIIEW cu» LEAl'HER IBOMiSliaffiOi! 6AS umiTIES MtArwcww tiiEMiai r305 ismia ^EISDIEUM woobwoi:ki>: T*>Nsn SHiPBUIlCINO mmi mxim KOIWEMOUSMESUtpROC (lAY KOPJtn iTEtl IWiiUiOADK!";-' aECTRICliiltCIIS CEMENT (OHSTK'jaiOK AIR tun SPORT SfUKiEROTOH UiMSERlHO AlARiNETRANSR dUAtRY M!mNO aiEmqu. AOICMOtlUE SKtftMtlAl 1007 I0» 1114 HU itoi (m UECnilCUTIUTIES fEUOlEUW asumiTiEs lEXTIU SEUVCE , PdnitMloiflH- .Mni9A0Estnt> QSSDi (DNiritucioii 4DAR)t1( -!l»TH£k III ISBI aff'M w-«(«vin are wreckim* ^ JOWT, SIR -.evoty^ Tl^ SOMCBODV UWE5 WE GUARD OFF A *'^MiNe-6ioo6y' FOX HOLES! ujfr '1.%'"';', ItUf Mm (.nil? MRiwiJNttr MEtfMCKMtt K?7 marine TtANSr UlMIERIXd ; RtfU'EUTIOII on Accident, Reports to the NationnI Safety Council FOOJ) FOR THOUGHT" Ain* 22 IQ «*» 1^ 16 7 A/A. 3 P.«l. 24 A.ra.16 P.iri 13 fi.m. 6 m il our plant are from 12 midnight to 6 a. m. Isn’t it true that practically the same type of work is being done here in our mill every 24 hours? . . Are the existing hazards any greater at any one time of the day or night than they are at others? . Can it be that the employees working evenings and graveyard are much more safety conscious than those working days? , , . Are you proud of the safety rec ord of your department? ... Is there anything that you can or will do that will help prevent per sonal injuries? . . . ’Tis a known fact that no person has ever in tentionally gotten hurt or caused a fellow-worker to be injured, but . . . don’t you feel that a little more CARE, THINKING, and PRACTICING of SAFETY on your part will help eliminate some of LOOKS LIKE W. N. C. R. N. Davis, MoMM 2-c, writes from somewhere in the Pacific: . I am anxious to get the Echo, especially the Machine Room news by John Goolsby because when I was there I was on D shift . . . The island where I am at present looks very much like wonderful Western N. C. at a distance but when you get near the beach it is quite different . . TWO MAJOR INVASIONS W. E. Green, GM _2-c, writes from the S. W. Pacific: “The copies of the Echo are like long-overdue letters from home ... I have some Jap invasion money which they were planning to use in Australia, also some which they were using in Dutch New Guinea.” KEEP ECHO COMING Writes Pvt. Richard Baumgard ner from Ft. Lewis, Wash. ... “I like to know what is going on at Ecusta while I am away, because I am hoping to go back to work with the landscape crew when this war is over.” these uncalled-for injuries that we are having? Let’s all give this some real deep thinking and resolve now to do our utmost towards making our plant the safest one in the world in which to work. IT CAN BE DONE. —By H. E. Newbury.
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