DECEMBER ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Page Nine
9 Departments
Get Perfect
Safety Grades
Nine departments last month
made perfect housekeeping grades
during the safety committee’s in
spection and three departments
failed to keep their banners, mak
ing grades below 90.
The offices at the White division
made an inspection grade of 89 be
cause boxes and chairs were found
in the aisle in the supply room and
boxes were stacked unevenly on
lop of files. Also, a Coke bottle
had been left on a chair in the rest
room.
Both pants I and pants II failed
to get a banner this time. Pants II
made a grade of 89 and pants I a
grade of 86. Both these depart
ments had thread and empty
thread cones on the floor and, in
addition, pants I had an excessive
amount of paper and scraps on the
sewing room floor.
Departments receiving grades of
100 were overall and boxer, dun
garee I, dungaree II, ladies’ dun
garee, maintenance, cutting, ship
ping, engineering, sales, and print
ing. The shirt department received
a grade of 98, the finishing depart
ment made 97, and the Hudson
office got a grade of 96.
The safety meeting was the last
one for the present committee and
Ossie Wright thanked the group
for their fine work during the past
few months. Visitors at the meet
ing were Esther Hughes, super
visor in the pants department; Lu-
die Mae Ingram, supervisor in dun
garee I; Hattie Banner and Leola
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A BEAUTY — She’s Geraldine
Hodge, daughter of Ruby Hodge
at the Independence, Va., division
and sister to Junior Hodge of that
plant.
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KETIUING SAFETY COMMITTEE — The safety committee that has just completed four months
of service is composed of: front row, left to right, Alma Peele, shirt department; Joyce Chapman,
White office; Lucy Hawkins, Hudson office; Kunelda Rich, dungaree; Evelyn Jones, overall and
boxer; and Sarah Baldwin, pants. Back row, Geneva Cook, pants; Hassie Stanford, dungaree; and
W. O. Benfield, maintenance. Ellen Hardy, representing ladies’ dungaree, was not present when
the picture was taken.
Newell, Sherrod supervisors; and
J. W. Parker, Sherrod super-
! intendent.
Ossie reported briefly on acci
dents during November, saying
there w'ere no lost time ones and
that accidents in general decreased
from 17 in October to nine last
month.. Four of the accidents re
sulted in treatment by physicians,
she said.
W. R. Fulton, safety engineer
for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,
spoke to the committee on the
“Common Sense of Safety.” He
pointed out that an accident can be
anything that stops production. To
the worker they result in the loss
of the difference between his com
pensation and his wages, a reduced
standard of living, suffering, lost
opportunity, and perhaps perma
nent handicaps. The supei'visors
suffer by decreased production, the
loss of a skilled worker, time re
quired to train a replacement, dis
gruntled employees, and time lost
investigating and reporting the ac
cident. The company must pay in
creased insurance rates, receives a
poor name in the labor market,
loses customer good will, produces
poorer quality products, and loses
by machine damage or idleness.
Accidental fatalities in the
United States average 95,000 and
disabling injuries total 9,800,000.
Since 1930 the severity of acci
dents has been cut almost in half
but the cost of accidents has con
tinued to rise. He said that costs
to the company are like an ice
berg, with three-fourths of them
being hidden as most of the ice-
CUTTING ROOM—
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in August of 1954 and is a spread
er. His wife’s name is Ramona Ann
and they live at 626 Willowbrook
St. They also, have no children.
Tommy Kent started working
with the company in May of 1952.
He is single and lives with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Kemp,
at 309 Oak View Rd. He is a
culter and his mother and a sister
■work in the sewing room at Sher
rod.
At the Independence plant the
spreading and cutting work is done
by James Boyer and J. L. Richard
son. Both spend their spare time
farming.
Boyer came with the company
in April of 1952 and is married
to the former Elizabeth Anders.
They have two children, Larry,
nine years old, and Shirley, age
five. They live on a farm near In
dependence.
J. L. is a native of Sparta, N. C.
He came with the company in
September of 1953 and previous
ly was employed by the Virginia
State Highw'ay Department. He
is single and lives with his sister
on a farm near Independence.
berg is hidden under water.
Visible costs are those paid
by the insurance company while
hidden costs are those paid by the
company. An accident costing $400
for medical treatment and compen
sation will actually cost $1,600
when the hidden costs are added,
he said.
Hudson Workers To
Get Tags For Cars
Workers at the Hudson plants
who use the company’s parking
lot for their automobiles in Jan
uary are to be given small alumi
num tags displaying their parking
space number. These are to be
placed on the rear license plate
and any automobiles not display
ing these tags will not be allowed
to park in the lot.
The aluminum tag is being pro
vided so w'orkers can put them on
their new license plates in Jan
uary. It is hoped that they will
work out better than windshield
stickers have in the past. The
stickers often washed off and were
destroyed.
The parking situation at the Hud
son plant has been a “headache”
for some time and it is hoped
that the new tags will help
straighten things out. No parallel
parking is to be allowed in the
rear of the lot since it keeps per
sons with regular parking spaces
from using them. Parallel parkers
have been making it impossible for
some people to get to or out from
their spaces and all employees are
asked to co-operate in the matter.
A great deal of talent is lost to
the world for want of a little cour
age. Every day sends to their
gi'aves obscure men whose timidity
prevented them fi'om making a
first effort.
“A pedestrian is a man whose
wife got to the garage first.”