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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 1944 Oct DOC#: NSC205 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Excerpt - Transactions of the NSC - 33rd National Safety Congress - Steam Railroad Section TMMJSM TMOMS 33rd NATIONAL SAFETY CONGRESS General Subject and Industrial Sessions CHICAGO October 3-5. 1944 A National Safety Council, Inc. 20 North Wacker Drive. Chicago 6 Copyright, 1944, National Safety Council, Inc. P rinted in U.S.A. VOLUME I H p H E Transactions of the 33rd National Safety Congress and Exposition of the National Safety Council are pub lished in two volumes. Volume I contains the General Sub ject and Industrial Section sessions. Volume II contains the Traffic, Commercial Vehicle, Transit, School and College, Home, and Farm Safety sessions. The Transactions are a record of the proceedings of the Congress, condensed and edited for reference purposes. They are therefore an abridged version of the papers and discussions. The original manuscripts, some of which have drawings and charts too expensive to reproduce here, are available in the files of the National Safety Council. The National Safety Council, at its Congresses, seeks to eliminate from discussion matters whiAfa are not pertinent to the aims of the Congress, or which may be contrary to the Council's policies. However, it cannot accept responsibility for all views expressed, either in the discussions of the Congress itself or in this record of them. Extra copies of Volume I may be obtained by Council members at $2.50 each. The price to non-members is $5.00 each. Extra copies of Volume II are $1.25 each. THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL, INC. 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago 6, Illinois D CONTENTS V o lu m e 1 Council Officers . . ........... ....................... .................................... iv U sing the T ransactions........ : . . . .............................................. xi Annual M eeting o f M embers.................. .............. ............... 1 Accident Facts . ........................................................................ 15 Aircraft M anufacturing Section . ................................. .......... 25 A ir Transport S e c tio n ................. ...................................... .. 43 A SSE--E ngineering S e c t i o n ........................................ 65 Army Session ........................................ ........................ .............. 69 Automotive and M achine Shop S ection................................. 85 Banquet . ......................................................... Cement and Quarry S ectio n .................................. Chemical S e c t i o n ........ ............................................. 1 Chemical W aste D isp o sa l............ ............................. 14 Coal M ining S e c tio n ...................................................... ............159 Construction Section ...................................................... . . . . . 1 9 7 Fire Control and P reven tion....................... 207 Food Section Industrial H e a lt h ............................ 241 Industrial Nursing S e c t i o n ........................... v .............. 261 Labor and S a fe ty ................ 273 Maintaining Interest in Safety................................................285 Man to Man on the J o b . . . ; ....................... 297 Marine S e c t io n ............... i .......... ...................... ................ 303 Meat Packing, Tanning and Leather Industries Section. .327 Metals Section ...................... 335 Mining Section ..................................................... 353 Off-the-Job Session ........................ 387 Paper and Pulp S e c tio n ..................... 399 Petroleum Section .........................................................................431 Power Press S e c tio n ....................................................................465 Public U tilities S e c tio n ................................................................ 473 Rehabilitation ............................................................ 501 Rubber Section .............................................................................. 503 Seeing for S a fe ty ...........................................................................529 Steam Railroad S e c tio n ...................... 535 T extile S ectio n ................................................................................ 563 Women in In d u stry...................................................................... 579 W ood Products S e c tio n ..............................................................593 Safety Exposition E x h ib ito rs................................................... 607 Index ............................................................................ 613 y National Safety Council, Inc. J. I. B anash, Consulting Engineer, Chicago, III. L. J. Benson, Asst, to Chief Operating Officer, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, 111. C. W. B krgouist, Hinsdale, Ilf. A. J. R. Curtis, Asst, to General Manager, Portland Cement Assoc., Chicago, 111. N ed H . D earborn, President, National Safety Council, Chicago, III. R. H . Ff.rguson. Manager of Safety, Republic Steel Corp., Cleve land, Ohio W. Earl H all, Managing Editor, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Mason City, Iowa D. T. H artson, Vice-President, Equitable Gas Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Otto R. H artwig, General Safety Supervisor, Crown Zellerbach Corp., Portland, Ore. J ulien H . H arvey. Managing Director, National Conservation Bu reau, New' York, N. Y. W. A. H azard, Engineer of Erection, Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethle hem, Pa. D r. T. L yle H azlett, Medical Director, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa. D r. H. T. H eald, President, Illinois Institue of Technology, Chi cago, 111. C. F. Joyner, Jr., Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, Richmond, Va. W. D ean K eefer, 2nd Vice-President, Lumbermans Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago, 111. John E. Long, Superintendent of Safety, The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp., Albany, N. Y. J. W illard Lord, Safety Engineer, Atlantic Refining Co., Phila delphia, Pa.. T hos. H. M acD onald, Commissioner, Public Roads Administration, Washington, D. C. Miss P auline E. Mandigo, Public Relations Counsel, New York, N. Y. I. W. M illard, President, Industrial Gloves Co., Danville, 111. H arold L. M iner, Manager, Safety and Fire Prevention Div., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Del. E liot N ess, Director, Social Protection Div., Community War Services, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C. G uy L. N oble, Managing Director, National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, Chicago, 111. W alter S. P aine, Manager, Engineering and Inspection Dept., Aetna Life & Affiliated Companies, Hartford, Conn. V National Safety Council, Inc. L) < . ' R ussell E. 1'erkey, Sales Division, Studebaker. Corp., South Bend, Ind. . C. E. P etti hone, Vicc-I'rcsidcnt and Manager, Engineering Dept., American Mutual Liability Insurance Co., Boston, Mass. R. J. R eicixuth, New Haven Trap Rock Co., New Haven, Conn. Cot.. H enry A. R eninger, Office of Civilian Defense, New York, N. Y. A. V. RoirwEDER, Supt. of Safety and Welfare, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Co., Duluth, Minn. J udge L ee E. S keei., Appellate Court, Cleveland, Ohio R. T. S oeensten, Vice-President, Elliot: Service Co., New York, N. Y. L esme J. S orenson, City Traffic Engineer, Chicago, 111. D r. C. H. W atson, Supt., Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, N. Y. C. E. W ooliever, Personnel Manager, Buick Motor Div., General Motors Corp., Melrose Park, III. V. A. Zimmer, Director, Division of Labor Standards, U. S. Depart ment of Labor, Washington, D. C. Representatives of the Conference of Local Safety Organizations George M. B urns, Director, `Kansas City Safety Council, Kansas City, Mo; | R eyburn H o ffm ann , Secretary-Manager, The Safety Council of Greater St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo. F rank L. Jones, President, Greater New York Safety Council, New York, N. Y. ' H arold F. L illie, Director-Secretary, Lansing Safety Council, Lan sing, Mich. ' ! W alter W. M atthews, Managing Director, Philadelphia Safety Council, Philadelphia, Pa. F red M. R osseland, Secretary-Manager, Newark Safety Council, Newark, N. J. Carl L. S m it h , Managing Director and Secretary, Greater Cleveland Safety Council, Cleveland, Ohio Representatives of the Conference of Sections .H. R. B ixler, Personnel Director, Mutual Life Insurance Co. o f N. Y., New York, N. Y. ix National Safety Council Inc. W. F. B rown, Safety Engineer, Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y., \ New York, N. Y. W . Graham Cole, Asst. Secretary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, N. Y. G. O. Griffin, Safety Director, Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa. E. S. M iner, Safety Engineer, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York, N. Y. J. L. R isinger! Safety Supervisor, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., New York, N. Y. ------- Lt. Col. R. C. Stratton, Office of Chief of Ordnance, Safety and Security Branch, Chicago, III. HONORARY MEMBERS A ssociation of I ron and S teel E ngineers R obert W . Campbell Lew R. P almer W . H . Cameron W illiam A. Irvin John Stilwell PAST PRESIDENTS R obert W . Campbell A rthur T . M orey* L ew R. P almer D avid V a n S chaack* R alph C. R ichards* C. P. T olman A rthur II. Y ouno M arcus A. Dow Lewis A. D e B lois C. B. A uel* C harles B. Scott* W alter G. K ing H omer E. N iesz* Col. H enry A. R eningkr C. E. P ettiboxe C. W . B eugquist J. J. B anash John E. Long Dr. C. H. W atson D. D. Fennell Jo h n S tilwell f ` Deceased Each editirlibrary of sait men and womc portation, ins agencies--give and backgroun prevention at : This knowlci: lating year afte progressive ini' Plan Safety ideas, : as personalities safety, can be f the Table of Cthe end of the The Table o Sessions, (b) Si problems comr.v Industrial Sccti. Subject Sessb. are arranged ai the book the s>. dustrial Section in the daily ti. program. The detailed ' easy to find spc. hundreds of ten jeets discussed, safety shoes, \\ case of formal im printed in italici.e., Chemical, i . etc. Under each h the subjects of .. 9-N - . example the particular :i which is specified for street was chosen because of the ue Which it contains. This K makes it easy for the nor'.iind person to distinguish red and thus drive down ^jlth o u t fear of becoming accident through inability to ,:als. The new committee has chnical problems like this to efore needs all the assistance .htained. ,fety engineers can help in i t of these problems in sev- end to the American Stand.1 any technical information neve will be of value to the study and criticize the ten a color code which will be -ly to industry for this pur' e committee completes its ut the final code into acr that a body of experience 1 to indicate the future ould be made to make the . ve. I Steam Railroad Section j --------------- :-- \ TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION t - October 3, 1944 \ Presiding: General Chairm an H. A . ' D aake, Supvr. of Safety, Erie Railroad Co., J, 'Cleveland, 0 . * THE CHAIRM AN: All members of the ; Executive Committee were of service from ' the time of their appointment. Mr. S. C. j Flagler, Chairman of the Safe Practice * Pam phlet C o m m itte e , who is Safety 1Supervisor, Santa Fe System, resigned a : few months ago, when he was transferred * from Topeka, Kansas to Albuquerque, New j Mexico, due to the distance he would have i to travel to meet with us. Thereupon, Mr. i P. F. Buckle, Superintendent of Safety, | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, ] succeeded Mr. Flager as Chairman of this t committee, and with Mr. G. M. Dempsey 5of the Milwaukee Railroad and Mr. C. L. *LaFountaine, General Safety Supervisor of | the Great Northern, St. Paul, Minnesota, }completed the sound slide film, "Keep 'Em Rolling." j Another development is in the matter of ! safety poster work. There will be twelve new railroad safety posters each year from j now on, beginning with the four railroad | safety posters recently received in miniature i form. The demands of our armed forces and ' other war conditions with which we are well ' familiar have placed a heavy burden on all j railroad operating officers, and we are well ' aware that fatalities to passengers and to ' railroad men would be far greater were it not for the intensive safety training by rail; road officers and others in supervisory posi: tions who have this responsibility. Since our last meeting, many thousands of new em| ployees who never worked on a railroad ; before, many of them high school students, have done their work in a commendable f manner because they were trained and i properly supervised. We would have a little clearer under standing of what has been accomplished for safety by the American railroads by a brief comparison of certain operating factors, fa talities and injuries, of World War I during 1918 and of World W ar II, in 1943. The peak of railroad traffic of World W ar I w as. in 1918, with its forty-three billion passenger miles and four hundred nine billion ton-miles of transportation serv ice. Last year, there were eighty-eight bil lion passenger miles and seven hundred thirty billion ton-miles of transportation service, or one hundred per cent more pas senger service and eighty per cent more freight service than in 1918. Yet in 1918, four hundred seventy-one passengers were killed, and three thousand four hundred nineteen railroad men lost their lives while on duty. In 1943, two hundred seventy-eight passengers died in railroad accidents, and one thousand seventy-two railroad men lost their lives while on duty. Thus it may be seen that railroad pas sengers were three times as safe in 1943 as they were in 1918 and railroad men twice as safe. The greatness of this achievement, in which we have all participated, can be appreciated in part by the volume of traffic handled every day. In 1943 there wa-. a daily average of two and a half million passengers, who traveled an average d stance of one hundred miles. There was an average movement of four million tons of freight an average distance of five hundred miles. Perhaps this great volume of traffic and its tremendous exposure hazard will never be reached again in our time. Railroad officers are constantly seeking to bring about still greater safety to rail road passengers, to those employed on the railroads, to highway travelers who do not always approach grade crossing with rea sonable care and thus endanger the lives of both passengers and train crews, and to 535 536 33rd National Safety Congress, 1944 'those both young and old who do not ap preciate the hazards of trespassing on or along railroad tracks. Thus we have come to participate in or attend the meetings of the Steam Railroad Section; to receive the best prevailing thoughts and experience; to discuss our mutual problems; and to return to our jobs better equipped to bring aboi f a noteworthy reduction of accidents aad f personal injuries. When busy railroad j officers gladly give of their time and taleas . nnd provide inspiration and instruction for t these meetings, we can readily apprciai [ the importance of a good attendance. } . . . T1 tenance," Non- Greetings from Safety Section, A.A.R. Discussio)> road G. O. F. GNADINGER Chairman of the Safety Section, Assn, of American Railroads and Supvr. of Safety, Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Co., Joliet, IlL In the past four years our work as safety officers has assumed a new impor tance, and I hope some day we will re ceive recognition. Interest in accident pre vention has increased through the entire country, and safety has taken on a new meaning. It's a sad commentary on our way of life that it was not until the be ginning of this bitterest conflict in the history of the world that the people of this country did come to realize that there was such a thing as conservation of manpower, and that it was an important matter. Safety these days means more to us than it did before. It means the conservation of manpower, the conservation of railroad equipment, and the safe movement of troops, war materials and supplies. It is my hope and I believe the hope of all those present that after this conflict is ended, we will not lose sight of the fact that the con servation of which we speak is as impor tant in peace as in war. Recently, some well-meaning but poorly informed persons have taken occasion to point out that some of the disasters that have occurred on the railroads, particularly wrecks of passenger trains, have been due to the lack of safety devices. We who investigate the' accidents that occur on oar railroads know that only a very small percentage of the accidents th a t. occur are due to the lack of safety devices, or are due to unsafe conditions. In the past foar years, we have had to employ new and inexperienced men. The railroads have operated with a shortage of equipment and an inability to secure necessary materials for repairs and replacements. We have had other problems, like the shortage of help, but in spite of all this, the railroads have had a job to do. They've done it, they're doing it, and they're going to continue do it. As a group, we have no reason to be anything but proud of the safety records of American railroads. From day to day we meet with new problems, and it is with such meetings as this that we can get dows and decide what is best to do. Mr. Chairman, I hope you have a sixcessful three-day session, and with the help at your command, there is no reason why you should not. On behalf of the Safety Section of the Association of Americas Railroads, we wish you every success. Participan: H. N. H & No viso, 1 I. H. s- Co., t = d.Wwes.t-.: ; Frank < - Lacks'- t York } C. M. { South- > D. C 4 S. C. : Syster ; MR. lit j 45,794 ot j employees | Interstate 176 deat'. and 53 p< j, were cla. * I belie / exposure 1 men an. v and car-; persons o: * train acc But do of 132 e: and ov- result c: Ses our