Protect Your Eyesight; Wear Your Safety Glasse
Are you one of the big gamblers?
If so, you don’t wear safety glasses
in plant areas. You risk serious eye in
jury and even blindness.
“It’s hard to understand why some
employees fail to wear their safety
glasses when they have them,” said
Kenneth R. Baggett, Fieldcrest safety di
rector. “In 1969, Fieldcrest employees
suffered 124 eye injuries that required
treatment at the Medical Department,
or first aid. Of these individuals, a
sizable number required the services of
eye specialists.”
Since December, 1965, 13 employees
at Fieldcrest have become members of
the Wise Owl Club of America. All
were hit in the eye area with objects
which could have caused blindness.
Fortunately, all were wearing safety
glasses and none was seriously injured.
“It’s amazing the tremendous impact
that safety glasses can sustain without
allowing colliding objects to penetrate
them,” Mr. Baggett said. “We know of
cases where employees were knocked
backwards and even off their feet.
“In almost all of the mishaps at Field
crest the employees involved did not re
ceive eye injuries. Their safety glasses
were smashed and shattered. You can
imagine what would have happened if
they hadn’t been wearing their safety
glasses.
“The unexpected can happen to any
one. The employee who wears his safe
ty glasses is protecting himself and his
family. He isn’t willing to risk his eyes.
Shattered lenses show force of impact of objects against safety glasses.
his job and his future.”
Wise Owl Club members at Field
crest include employees from several
plants. The members’ names and the
plants where they were working when
the mishaps occurred are: Kenneth R.
McGinnis and Ray Pittman, Alexander
Sheeting Mill; Gary Grogg, Freeman L.
Price and Dewey A. Wilson, Blanket
Mill; Noah Griffin and Colon Singleton,
Columbus Towel Mill; John W. Hall
and David Murray, Fieldale Towel Mill;
John Chamblin, Dewey Hancock, and
Charlie Thompson, Karastan Rug Mill;
and George W. Lomax, North Carolina
Finishing Company division.
the EDITO
Dear Editor:
To all the members of your S'
would like to say that I hope ea'
,cti
everyone of you has the merriest
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mas and happiest New Year possr
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Walter Eugene Walters is superin
tendent of plant service for the Laurel-
crest Carpets division with responsibil
ity for maintenance and construction in
the Carpet Mill, Yam Mill and Service
Center. His area of responsibility in
cludes raw water treatment, sewage dis
posal, lighting, boilers, heating systems
and the electrical power system.
A native of Laurel Hill, he was em
ployed at the tufted carpet plant in No
vember, 1965, as a filter plant operator
in the Maintenance Department. In Feb
ruary, 1966, Mr. Walters became an in
strument and air-conditioning man and
in October, 1966, he was transferred to
the Plant Service Department as a sec
ond hand. He worked in that capacity
I have been serving in the
of Vietnam for almost 18 montbSj ^
ing which time I have received,
Mill Whistle. It really means a p;
me. My mother is employed at tb®
per mill.
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Again let me say thank you, ^
Christmas, Happy New Year and
God bless each and everyone of
Very sincerely yours, j
Specialist Four Barry S. Wa^*^ ,
(Editor’s note: Barry S. Walker
IIS':'
I roving • t
in the Cotton Spinning Departing
the Blanket Mill.)
THE MILLWHISTS
W. E. WALTERS
Copyright, 1970, Fieldcrest Mills, F*'
Eden, N. C. 27288
until January, 1969, when he was named
a foreman in the Plant Service Depart
ment.
Mr. Walters became superintendent-
plant service in August, 1970, and con
tinues to work in that capacity.
He and his wife, Charmie, live in
Laurel Hill with their three children:
Eugenia Lynn, 12; Debora Ann, 10; and
William Eugene, eight.
Issued Jvery Other ^Monday Fo_r_ EijFj,
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills,
o
OTIS MARLOW^
EDITOR
ALICE WARM^jI
ASSOCIATE EDF
Member, International Associate''
of Business Communicators^^
Vol. 29 Monday, Nov. 30, 1970
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