Excerpt from Practical Safety Methods and Devices Manufacturing and Engineering
Industrial accidents cost this country human lives and more than annually. In addition, dismemberments and other serious injuries total about yearly, while the annual number of minor accidents, causing loss of time, exceeds This statement does not include a very large number of cases of occupational diseases in which workers are either wholly or partially incapacitated, or which result in premature death. The annual loss in killed and wounded continues at a. Steady rate, and is now greater than the combined losses of the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil war.
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