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THE F LY IN G RED HORSE 1950 - 1959 PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT MBL-290 446066 k THE FLYING RED HORFE Nov-Dec 1951 DIDN'T DIE That many employees escaped death last year because of safety program which makes Company safer than your home Seven MEN and women working for the Flying Reii Horse Companies this minute ha\e no business being alive, statistically speaking. And oGB more able-bodied "members of the SoconyA acuum organization should have suffered disabling injuries last year. under the law of industrial averages, while those seven were being killed. The difference between life and death in these case-:, and between accident and escape, is the difference between the Company's safety record and that of American industrv generally. Which raises the question: What with accidents killing W.Udl) and injuring 3.900.00U in the homes, on the streets. i. the air. on the water, and in the industries of the United 'tates last year, where can you be safe? Answer: surrounded by millions of gallons of gasoline, kerosine. fuel oil. waxes, and other petroleum products in process and in storage. Preferable in t'nronv-VacuumPuulsburo. New Jersey. Rcfineiv. A ou wouldn't be perfectly -afe there, of course. But vou would be about nine times as safe at Paulsboro as on the average job in American industry. Safer than performing household ehore<=. too. And certainly -afer than walking across, for example. Wilshire Boulevard. Michigan Boule vard. or Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. In fact, for two years in a row the l'.iulrlmro letim-iv has been the safest large refinery in the entire woiid. Fiii-n-'- a bare fraction more than one accident for evciv .milmi man-hours worked. The average job in all SuconyA acuum operatioi - - a pretty safe proposition, as a matter of fact. Three .1- -afe as the average of all industrial jobs in the United 'tale-. 1 lint overall salelv record for SucunvA acuum a course, made up of records established in each upci .tli.m the Companv. A man working in producing is twee 1- safe as the average worker in, American industry. He'- tiu.-e limes as safe as Mr. National Average if he's w..rkme m SuconyA acuum's wholesale marketing operation. Ami he- eie/it times as safe if he's holding a job in Flying Red. II- - manufacturing. . Those figures aren't just drv-as-dust statist!'- :; nvolve human beings--vou. for example. If vou 1- . '.hi-, vou're obviously among those who didn't die .a-t if Listen to the story of two Flying Red Hor-e m-i--- - - ..no '-ante within a hair of being anions' those seven - s !ea.-t anions those 8G0. Thev're John Kedzior zee J - 'haw. They work at the Olean Refinery, where Pam - 446067 :^ita .< j s j ; 1 j j is ?alet\ superv isor. E, R. Alden. head of the Company"; Claim and Safety Department, will tell you about them. "Kedzior was walking under a scaffold. A pound-and-ahalf. razor-sharp steel chisel fell 12 feet and struck his protective hard hat. He wasn't e\en scratched. In the same week, at the same refinery, a 15-pound box of nuts and bolts plummeted 12 feet from another scaffolding and hit Shaw s hard hat. The blow staggered him. but he wasn't injured." Perhaps even more dramatic was the case of George B. Surface, who was helping extricate a boom truck from a ditch at the White Eagle pipeline in Kansas, when the boom touched a high-tension wire. The driver was insulated from the current, but Surface, holding a steel cable, fell rigidly to the ground. "The driver pulled the boom free. " according to D. G. Burrill, White Eagle's overall safety supervisor, and L. H. Tomlinson, pipeline safety man. "H. D. Holmberg. a welder, immediately started artificial respiration. Others massaged Surface's bodv to restore circulation and covered him with blankets to keep him warm. Thev restored him to conscious ness before the ambulance could arri\e. Every one of those men had undergone extensive training in first aid. It sure paid off there. Another 30 seconds of deiav in this sort of situation might have been fatal." Alden and his associates throughout the country can cite dozens of cases where the safety program has paid >'ff in what they call "human dividends. " But the record still isn't good enough for Alden. or for his assistants. J. L. Risinger. in charge of safetv ami fire prevention, and W. J. Maxwell, in charge of workmen's compensation. Or. for that matter, for the managers, super visors. and foremen of the far-flung Flying Red Horse organization. Lpon these men in the field rests the responsibihr. for the safety program, and to them goes the full measure of credit for its success. "Our department formulates and advises on accident prevention activities.'' savs Risinger. "but unless .-aiclv has become an integral part of every job. our program tun make little progress." The department also tabulates and charts the frequent t and severitv of all accidents. But behind every figure ami behind every line on a graph. Risinger sees the face; living people, the flesh and blood of SoconvA acuum. "Two of Socn y-\ acuum s affiliates reduced their at < itent rates sharplv in 1950 over the tear before." he ~.i" "Gem-rai Petroleum, where John McKenzie cuordin.iO - 446068 17 0415? safety activity and Mart Milam supervises manufacturing safety, came up with a 32.6 per cent reduction. Magnolia Petroleum, with W. J. Kent at Dallas and P. C. Folse at the Beaumont refinery, cut its frequency rate 16.6 per cent. The overall reduction for all our operations was 16.7 per cent. "We'll never eliminate all accidents, of course. Human beings will always* make mistakes, regardless of precautions and instructions and safety devices. But we're driving toward an absolute, irreducible minimum." How is it being done? With every known technique for making people conscious of hazards on their jobs, around the clock. With conferences. With refresher courses. With contests on intra-company, national, and world scales. With constant research and with meetings, annual award dinners, and demonstrations in a continuous year-'round cycle. No detail of a safety plan escapes full treatment. "The man or woman on a job knows its hazards best." says Risinger. "Our people write their own safety manuals. They even take the photographs. We pay for the paper, print ing, and binding, and we offer guidance. That's all." He'll show you a dozen representative booklets. Each division has its own. They're packed with practical think ing. "And you can imagine the interest our people have." he says, "in something they've produced themselves. You can understand their pride." The manuals in many cases give almost step-by-step in struction in how to do a job--and do it at a minimum of risk to life and limb. How to operate a cracking unit safely. Precautions to take in welding, in operating machines and electrical equipment. How to load and unload tank cars, boats, and barges. The correct way to handle a motor vehicle, to work in a laboratory, to deliver fuel oil to a home. And a thousand other detailed, self-imposed safeguards. "In the event of an accident." Alden explains, "the fact that we're self-insured means that we can deal directly with our own people, rather than through an outside firm. We're closer to our own people, naturally, than anyone else could be. and we can make certain that nothing will be left undone to see that the injured persdn is restored as quickly as possible to normal health and activity. "We're doing everything humanly possible to stop acci dents. When they do happen, though, we want to be on the job ourselves in taking care of those who get hurt." The cornerstone of the program lies in the fact that the Board of Directors has made safety its own special province. The program comes directly under the Board--and has ever since the day the Board passed this resolution: "Socony-Vacuum people shall have a safe place in which to work: safe methods by which to work: and safe tools with which to work." That policy has paid off and. in the procc~?. has shattered some long-held industrial theories. The hdief. for instance, that new employees, because, of inexperience, will have more accidents than older employees. The opening lecture and instruction given new members of the organiza tion have pretty much equalised the hazards of an\ job for new men and veterans. Just as the continuing >-mph.i'is on safety has sharply reduced the frequency--the uumU-r of accidents for each million man-hours of work- throughout the Flying Red Horse organization. The wholesale marketing division, as an example. !u> cut its accident frequency from 8.13 to 5.13 per million man-hours in 10 years. Manufacturing operations n-dm ml their accident frequency from 4.4-2 to 2.05 in this -pan. "Of course, as I said, we'll never be able to halt all accidents," Alden says, "but we are making headw.n. The oil industry as a whole has a safety record one ami a half times better than the national industrial record. And. too. we're making injuries less severe." But. as glad as he is that so many lives have lo-.-n - >-.| and so many injuries prevented, they're all in th<- .-a-i for hiin. It's tomorrow's, and next week's, and next n.n'- ; ,m? that keep him engrossed. He says: "If we could get our program to the point urn--, '.re would be only one accident a year, we'd still ha.-- : --h to do." 446069 04160 ON STREAM THE ^LViMr: RED HORSE Winter 1957-53 NEWS AROUND THE MOBIL WORLD <_ WOMAN DIRECTOR: Mrw. Jcrfyeola Aduke Moore, a Nigerian lawyer who served as legal advisor and later as Secretary of Mobil Oil Nigeria, becomes first woman director of a Mobil company. She joins boards of both Mobil Oil Nigeria, a marketing company, and Mobil Exploration Nigeria. VENEZUELAN PIPELINE: The longest 20-inch crude pipeline in Latin America, running 210 miles from Barinas area to a half-mile-long pier near Puerto Cabello, went on stream November 21. The 26-million-dollar artery, financed by Socony Mobil and Sinclair, has initial capacity of 100,000 barrels a day, poten tial of 150,000. It culminates 10-year effort to find outlet for oil from Venezuela's western plains, where Mobil discovered Silvestre field in 1947. Socony Mobil de Venezuela will operate the pipeline. _ PLASTIC CREDIT CARDS: They'll reduce to an average SS seconds (from 111 seconds) the time a Mobil customer must wait for his charge slips to be filled out. The new "slide-in-and-punch" system, effective January 1, means coast-to- coast convenience for Mobil's 2,500,000 credit-card holders. J BOATING TRIUMPH: World speed-record for propeller-driven hydroplanes fell November 29 to the Hawaii Kai, piloted by Jack Regas of Seattle. Speed: 194.649 m.p.h. Donald Campbell's Bluebird holds jet boat record (239.07 m.p.h., set on England's Lake Coniston, November 7). Both craft were Mobil fueled and Mobil lubricated. .. 200,000th SHAREHOLDER: She's a youngster from Oshkosh, Wis.--but nobody's sure whether it's Kay or Carole Hathaway. Each sister received bequest of shares at _ same time. Puts Socony Mobil among eight U. S. companies with more than 200,000 shareholders. OIL IN LIBYA? Mobil's first deep-test well in this North African country was last reported 2,650 feet down, in desert 175 miles south of coast. Mobil Oil of Canada has concessions in Libya totaling 18,000,000 acres. Company is cautiously optimistic this will become big oil producing area. Earlier drilling in the Eezzan area produced gas blowout. +~t> BETTER TRUCKS: No more climbing on top of gasoline transport trucks to load and unload-- ~ that's a big advantage of new 'bottom loading" system the company is putting through final tests at Buffalo. Self-sealing hose connections, like those used for mid-air refueling of jet planes, make technique practical. Also promising: aluminum truck transports with 8 percent more payload; Mobil has 42 under test. -4 TRACKDOWN: Mobil's weekly TV program "is a showcase" for "acting talent of lasting - significance-," says_TV Guide in praising star Robert Culp. Ratings indi cate program is seen in SJ4--9 million -homes. BETTER HEATING OILS: Building still more quality into Mobil heating oil--that's the aim of new multi-million-dollar hydrodesulfurization unit at Paulsborj Refinery. Also being built at Paulsboro: a 19,000-barrels-a-day delayed coker to upgrade heavy residual oils into gasoline and fuel oils. MODERNIZING PAYOFF: The first Civil Defense "plant-protection award" ever given an easternU. S. refinery went to Mobil's Buffalo refinery. The honor reflects safety built into seven-year modernization program which began in 1952; also reflects safety training, first-rate medical equipment and personnel. SPACE SATELLITE: How is it placed in orbit? What keeps it. up there? What can scientists learn from it? A special issue of OIL-POWER magazine (published for Mobil industrial lubrication customers) makes this timely subject easy to un derstand. For a copy, write Educational Services, Socony Mobil, 150 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. CORRECTION: Crude oil imports supply about 7 percent of the total U. S. market for liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons--not "less than 3^4 percent" as reported erroneously in Autumn issue of The Flying Red Horse. It's still a relatively small per centage, but we wanted to put the record straight. 446070 7 04161 ThE FLYING RED HORSE Winter 1&57 TOURNIQUET! Drama of a piece of rope, a torn shirt, a screwdriver--and a man fighting time. BEAUMONT, TEXAS - Now the high-legged beach houses clustering at Caplen began falling behind. Ahead the road went on and on, empty and straight, across the prairie that splits the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston Bay. It was ":30 a.m. and starting to rain. At the wheel Frank Fuller whistled softly, it felt good to be alive and to have a wife and five kids and a holi day. It was good to fee! the stubborn tug from the trailer of 'lumber hitched on the back of the pickup. Frank Ful ler, a carpenter at Magnolia Petroleum Company's big Beaumont, Tex., re finery. was en route to an off-day's work on the beach house he and his family were building. Then he felt the presence of another car on his left, and a couple in a black car whirled around in front. It was raining ster.ihlv now. but still not hard. The higiiwjv barely glistened. But it was slick, it must have been. The bl.ii.k :ar was suddenly whipping about. F-aiik watched :t straighten, then jkrd asam. Its right wheels left the ` pavement, and abruptly the ca lurched off the road and careened to ward a barbed-wire fence. In those split seconds Frank watcher in awe--feeling the first certain pani that something would happen. His wifi broke the silence. . "My goodness," she gasped, "tha woman ... she's going out of that car!' A figure hurtled into the fence. Thi black car's right-hand door was stil swinging when the car settled to . stop. Frank pulled up behind. He go out and trotted in the rain to the fence The man driving the car was ahead- there, stooping over the woman en tangled in the fence--a young woman 25, maybe 26. obviouslv lus daughter He had her by the hand trving to pul her free. The woman was limp. "Man, don't pull her please.' Frank said that, remembering a Mag nolia first-aid course he d had eigtv years back. Don't move the victim. He didn't remember much dvnut th- course, but he remembered :it much "Oh, she's not hurt, die uaii saic He seemed dazed. - Frank looked at the .......... A fev scratches on the arms. \ 'e-wc or tuc No sign of bleeding l-'nc ,:k! head a right. But she'd been tin. un .dong 15-foot stretch of h.ulx.d -urc. an- most of her was hidden -iurt an- blue jeans. She could N -irt m lot of ways. Frank wasn't -me "Sure," he murmured ->e '1 be a right.'' Gently he re.c -' die nu from tugging his d.u a' < >t d wire. "But don't j>u.' \\ don't want to move ' e: With his wife. ! - -t.ou- straightened the w to let her lie flat ! it--her left leg. like . ' -N 446071 3^162 Why Safety It was the sight of the bone, white a Boy Scout, suggested they elevate her and ugly, the skin shredded away where feet. Frank agreed and they did it. He'd the calf of her leg should have been. already had blankets brought to cover Blood was streaming out fast. the woman. The rudiments of a lec- "Get an ambulance," he said. ture called "treatment for shock" were Behind him stood a woman who'd coming back to him. ;driven up moments before. "I'll phone Frank looked at his watch, then let from down the road." she said, and up on the tourniquet--now for the hurried away. third time. He tightened it again. The Other cars were starting to pull up, minutes crept by. Tighten and hold, but Frank wasn't waiting for help. In Watch the time. Loosen, then tighten his truck he found a short strand of again. But the rain--what if she catches rope he used for tying things down. cold? This he put around the woman's leg. Doctors can cure colds, even pneu- just above the knee. He tore up an old monia. You just buy time for her, shirt and made a knot out of the cloth. Fuller, that's all you can do. He slipped the knot under the rope to Some 1 5 or 20 cars by the side of the put pressure at just the right point. road now formed a lorrg-and jagged line. Then he grabbed a screwdriver, nosed Fuller looked at his watch; it was 8:15. it under the rope and twisted. And then from the flatlands to the The flow of blood slackened, then west came the wail of a siren. stoppe"d. Frank held tightly and looked In moments it was over for Frank at his watch. 'Wait five minutes, heFuller. He passed his hurriedly impro- !told himself, then loosen the tourniquet to keep circulation. Then tighten it again. How did he feel? Wet, for one thing. The rain was steady and it trickled through his collar down his back. He : wasn't going to be sick, though he wasn't too sure for a few moments there. What surprised him was how ; much he remembered from that first.aid course at Magnolia. It was eight : years ago--but eight years didn't really seem such a long time ago now. But then he guessed that after get| ting drilled two hours a day, five days 7 straight, you're bound to remember : something about first aid. ! "Here, let's prop her head up," a i woman behind him said. She d brought a pillow from her car. vised tourniquet into the hands of an ambulance attendant, who cast a darting glance in search of a quick substitute for the screwdriver. "That's all right," Frank said. "Keep it." Then she was borne to the ambulance and they were gone. The crowd began breaking up. A bystander stopped Frank as he started to walk away. "Mister, where'd you learn what to do?" Frank, gazed for a moment at the disappearing, screaming ambulance, then looked back and said, "Magnolia." He. felt tired. But it was a good tired feeling, all the same. He walked back to the truck. The Fullers still had a beach house to build, --Reprinted from Minute-man, employee publication of the Beaumont refinery. That first-aid course which helped Frank Fuller save a life was part of a company-wide safety program. Teamwork on safety has brought results. At General Petroleum Corp.. for example, it reduced the on-the-job injury rate in 11 yean from 14.42 lost time injuries per million manhours worked to only 2.14 last year. Throughout the Mobil world, this emphasis on safety has kept serious injuries well below the industry average. Why does the company help keep employees from getting hurt? Because it wants to spare employ ees and their families grief. Because it wants Mobil employees to spread good safety attitudes, so that other people--including the families of employees--will be safer. Because it wants to make a profit. If the third "because" surprises you, remember this: It's part and parcel of free enterprise that proper pursuit of profit tends to produce human benefits. And a human approach to business, in turn, tends to produce more profits. The same injury that causes an em ployee pain and sometimes reduction of income is almost always costly to the company, too --for a substitute must be found to replace him. In an industry like oil, where seismic crews handle dynamite and many people work with volatile liquids and gases, the cost of injuries--to employee and company alike--could get out of hand iFit weren't for sound safety programs continuously applied. Trouble is, with too many people, safety still stops at the plant gate. For every lost-time injury on the job, there are five times as many off the |ub. That's why the company is cooper ating with many organizations on offthe-job safety--for example, with the Boy Scout "Safety Good Turn'' pro gram. Scouts everywhere will be earn ing credits through projects to become safer pedestrians, safer bike rulers; they'll be learning first aid. water safe ty, small raft safety -- education de signed to rear a generation *>t -iter Americans. Give them your 'n;.p..rt. 21 -Mi 63 446072 446073 ON STREAM IMPORT SITUATION: Further cut* in crude import* were begun by Mobil April 1st to comply with latest voluntary quotas set by U. S. government. Previous formula allowed company 67,100 barrels of overseas crude daily for areas east of the Rockies. New formula will push imports down to 57,200-barrel-per-day level by Sept. 1st. West Coast quota stays at 25,500 barrels daily. SMALL BOATS, BIG BUSINESS: About a fifth of all marine supplies for America's 7 million small-craft are Mobil products. Company now has some 800 marine outlets on U. S. waterways. Top quality products are backed by extra customer services that range from tidetables and cruising guides to aid in planning marina layouts. MOBIL AT BRUSSELS: Only corporation to be a major exhibitor in the U. S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair is Mobil Overseas Oil Company. Mobil exhibit is co-sponsored with Society of Industrial Realtors, shows U. S. trend toward industrial parks--planned, attractive factory areas, usually in suburbs or open country. Industrial parks are made possible by oil-powered transportation which gives greater choice in factory site selection. "OIL RUSH" IN ALASKA: Not gold In the Klondike, but oQ in the Kenai region has made Alaska a hot play* area. General Petroleum Corp, has opened a land office in Anchorage, already has exploration rights to nearly 100,000 acres. IS NEW LINE-UP IN MIDWEST: For greater marketing efficiency, Socony Mobil's Central Region has dissolved 2 divisions--Wadhams and White Eagle--and created 2 new ones. New TWIN CITIES Division, with headquarters in Minneapolis, includes 4 districts from White Eagle, 3 from Wadhams. Two remaining Wadhams districts have joined CHICAGO Division. New KANSAS CITY Division includes remaining White Eagle dis tricts. Two divisions, otherwise unchanged, have been renamed: Lubrite to ST. LOUIS and-White Star to DETROIT. SAFETY RECORD: Supervision of 1 million man hours without a lost time injury brought honors in March to Donald James MacLaren, foreman of the laboratory at General Fetroleum'3 refinery in Torrance, Cal. MacLaren's record, first in General Petroleum history, stretches over the past 13-years and is still uninterrupted. REFINERY TV: Vldigage, a new device for quick measurement of m.etal thickness, helps spot corrosion at Magnolia Petroleum Company*sr Beaumont Refinery. A pick-up crys tal, moving along equipment surfaces, sends sound waves into metal. Speed of bounce-back from the other side is recorded in lines on a portable 14-inch TV-like screen. Thickness of metal indicates degree of corrosion. S/S MOBIL LUBE: Newest tanker in the Mobil fleet was launched in October, made her _ - maiden voyage from Beaumont to New YorkIn January with a million gallons " of aviation gasoline, 8 million of Mobilheat. The 29,000-ton Mobil Lube has a normal cruising speed of 17.5 knots, carries a 48-man crew, and is the sixth vessel of her general size built primarily for Mobil's coastwise trade in the 5. year3. AFRICAN EXPiBi ,TION: Mobil, geophysical crews are in northern and western Nigeria on an ve; search for oil after a 2-yehr preliminary surface- survey.'.. In Son Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. ($;50-percent-owned Mobil'-affiliata}', will - - - begin similar operations shortly oh a 10,300-square-mile' concession. .-.See pages^i^O;fopiatest news- from Lib^a. y^y -'-'v v-A.; CATION AID: 45 employees .completed course*,tinder Educational Refund FXin during 1967, 3lightly more .than in 1956.' TbfalTrefunded by the company to these scholars _ was $62,612, including payments .to 167 at General Petroleum, 116 at Magnolia. *&* JSULFUR SUPPLY: Up to 80 tons- of marketable sulfur can be produced daily by a new sulfur recovery plant at Faulsboro Refinery. The plant not only'saves a valuable ...... amount of a-needed, chemical but aids in air pollution control. .--rf?-.- 1 y HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Magnolia'* Field Research Laboratory celebrated its Twentieth Anniversary <8*,-. Week in March. Started in 1938 by a 3ingla scientist with a few test tubes, lab now has380-man staff in 26 buildings on a 144-aore tract southwest of Dallas. 446074 041 A' -- '-rr-ar-'ssgr---- ~~. . _ The Flying Red Horsed Autumn 1938 04166 446075 #r>*; Still 20-20 Beaumont Refinery Machinist Leon McArthur was extracting a tap recently, using pliers. Suddenly the metal parted, spinning a fragment into his left eye . . . nearly. Nearly, except for a pair of company-issued, non-prescription safety glasses -- and the fact that he bothered to wear them. Leon still has 20-20 eyesight. Desert Enterprise On pages 4-11 in this issue is a back ground piece on the Middle East. Space did not permit more than a fleeting glimpse of this fascinating and turbu lent area--but for readers who would like to probe deeper, we recommend a new book by- David H. Finnie. The book is called Desert Enterprise: The Middle East Oil Industry in Its Local Environment. It was published this sum mer by the Harvard University Press. Mr. Finnie is a member of Socony Mobil's Middle East Affairs Department in New York. A 33-year-old Yale Law School graduate, he researched the book while on a two-year fellowship in the Middle East, sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He.wrote the. book during a year at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. Mr. Finnie joined Socony Mobil last year. H. A. R. Gibb, noted Middle East scholar, says of the book in a brief foreword: "... into (an) area of impas sioned feeling, Mr. Finnie brings a calm, disciplined, and wary mind." alone, Mobil has a combined capacity to store about 118 million banels. That's enough oil to cover Manhattan Island to a depth of 45" feet." Mr. Dickey gasped and reached for his slide rule. A few adroit slips of the stick confirmed his suspicion -- 118 million barrels sloshed over Manhattan Island (22.3 square miles j wouldn't much more than cover the shoes of New Yorkers. Our thanks to Mr. Dickey for calling this blooper to our attention. Also to John Casper, economics editor of The Oil and Gas Journal, who figured the correct depth -- just about one foot. We're now enrolling in a nightschool course in arithmetic. --ED. End of an Era The only employee whose working life spanned the entire history of Gen eral Petroleum Corp. has retired after 47 years of service. Harry D. L'Hereux, manager of the Building Department, started as an 18-year-old bookkeeperclerk with the Esperanza Consolidated Oil Co., earliest forerunner of General Petroleum. He was the last Esperanza employee still active on the company's payroll. New Assignments Four men have been named to new management positions at Socony Mobil headquarters. Thev are: * Arnold Stebinger, who takes on a special assignment m connection with the company's overseas operations. Mr. Stebinger was manager of the Depart ment of Middle East Affairs, has held several overseas posts since coming with Socony Mobil on graduation from Co lumbia in 1938. * Rawleigh Warner Jr., manager of the Economics Department, who suc ceeds Mr. Stebinger as manager of Middle East Affairs. Mr. Warner was with Mobil Overseas Oil Co. before taking over the Economics Depart ment in 1936. > Thomas W. Phelps, who succeeds Mr. Warner. Partner in charge of research and economist of Francis I. du Pont and Co. before joining Socony Mobil in 1949, Mr. Phelps was man ager oFthe Public Relations Depart ment and assistant to the chairman of the board. p Paul Wollstadt, who succeeds Mr. Phelps. Mr. Wollstadt came to Socony Mobil from National Petroleum News and Platt's Oilgram in 1951. Oil Over Manhattan When S. J. Dickey, retired president of General Petroleum Corp., was reading the last issue of The Flying Red Horse, he came across the article on storage tanks ("Ball Gai' in an Oil Tank," pages 6-7). The article concluded: "In the U.S. Look, Ma, No Horse! - The Model T Ford Club of Chicago held its second annual overnight tour recently in an effort to prove absolutely nothing, except that motoring can be fun. Fueled and lubricated by Socony Mobil, which also believes that motor ing can be fun, 36 cars (average age: 35, average speed: 25) spluttered 80 miles through the countryside. The 1920's were the Golden Age of the Model T, and the "flapper" in the photo is dressed to suit the era. But she's snuggling up to the wrong car-- it's a 1906 Model N. 25 446076 The Flying Red Horeev AUTUMN 1959 MAGAZINE OF THE MOBIL WORLD 446077 04168 4 THE At quitting time in a Mobil natural t gasoline plant not long ago, one man was running late--"whistle-bit," as they say at the plant. Still wearing cover danger hours alls and hard hat, he hustled out to join his car pool, climbed into the "suicide seat" next to the driver. Be fore reaching home he understood why that seat carries its name. Why does a skilled carpenter--with a 30-year The car was involved in a collision. He was catapulted into the windshield, then slammed back with a jolt. Dazed safety record in a Mobil refinery---go home but unhurt, he stared with new fond ness at his metal helmet--jammed to the brim in the shattered windshield. to his small workshop and shave away a thumb? The "Take Safety Home" campaign going around Mobil nowadays had The Danger Hours Continued gained another ardent fan. safer at wor --even around flammable Men to whom hard hats, safety gog or hazardous materials--than they are gles and steel-toed shoes are old, old barbecuing steak in the back yard (just friends are being reminded often these days--though in gentler fashion than the auto collision--that dangers don't punch clocks. They see it on jumbo this summer a Brooklyn employee try ing to ignite charcoal. briquettes poured on gasoline, made the lost time list when the ensuing whoosh posters, bulletin boards and in plant set his britches on fire). publications. They discuss it in meet ings. They puzzle over it in contests. As never before, safety men are trying to clobber the quirk in human behavior that makes a skilled carpenter work safely on the job for 30-odd years (as was the case recently in a Mobil re finery), then shave away-a thumb in his small workshop at home. Such irony is scarcely uncommon. A few years ago a producing man in Wyoming, while conducting a safety meeting, sheepishly explained the ban Last year, while three of the 43,000 Mobil people over the U. S. and Can-' ada died as a result of injuries suffered on the job, 22 were killed away from work. Mobil people average 10 to 15 times as many injuries off the job as on. The cost in pain and grief is im possible to measure.. The cost in dol lars is too involved to guess at. Offduty injuries run hospital bills into the millions; they swell insurance prem iums. They require the training of re lief personnel; they add to the work dage over one eye: He was working in the yard; his son was cutting the lawn; the power mower's whirling blades hurled a rock like a bullet... A West Coast supervisor set out to loads of others. Those facts partly account for the company's current effort to spread ac cident-consciousness into the private lives of its people. Partly it's tackling paint his house, slipped from the bot tom rung of a ladder and spent three weeks in bed. A mechanic in the Midwest got into the job because the job needs tackling, and the modern oil company, a veteran ot decades of war on industrial injuries, has the organization and safety ma a sandlot ball game to pass the time chinery to do it. of day--and passed 38 days in idleness after a wicked slide into third. In 1958 Mobil people finished their safest on-the-job year in history--4.43 Truck drivers roll up mile after mile lost-time injuries for every million hours of accident-free commercial driving, worked. That's a third better than the then smash up the family car on a oil industry as a whole, two-thirds bet Sunday afternoon. Men who clamber ter than all types of manufacturing. around oil derricks go home and fall Behind that record are more than down stairs. 30 years of steadily expanding safety Strange as it might seem, oil men are work in the company's refineries, oil TMK AMCftICAN HOMK fields, truck and tanker fleets and ter minals. Nowadays protective equip ment is a constant companion of the average Mobil employee. Safety's ser mon follows him always. He has the proper tools, the know-how, and the awareness that a split second of im provising, short-cutting or just plain carelessness is all it takes to lose an eye or a limb or a life. Why can't he--or doesn't he--take that knowledge and awareness home? "That's exactly what we're urging him to do," says James H. Herbert, Socony Mobil.safety director. "In every way we can, we're trying to make the safety momentum we've built up go on and on--around the clock." For years shop safety meetings have focused on-accident prevention in re fineries and field work. More and more of late, room is made on the agenda for such subjects as: Traffic Safety, the nation's biggest hazard (last year 36,700 people were killed on U. S. highways; nearly 3,0001000 were injured). Boat Safety (in some states these days the boom in skippering claims more lives per week end than car wrecks do). Tho "Do It Yoursolf" Trend i which since World War II has led to count less millions of electrical shocks and amputations by power tools). Child Poisoning, Bike Accidents, Plastic-Bag Dangers, and similar haz ards involving members of the family ("A guy with his wife or kid in the hospital," notes one safety man, "is just about as disabled as if he were there himself'). After hours, in some areas, Mobil families get together for clambakes, barbecues and potluck dinners -- and they top off the evenings with talks or films on safety. One employee. Chemist Bazil Bilder of Vernon, Cal., often makes safety a topic of family dis cussion and conversational games during the dinner hour. Into employees' homes go special letters and pamphlets on subjects rang ing from power saws to sunburn. For several years in some places, each man starting a vacation has received a letter from the boss, wishing him a good time but reminding him, "We'd like you back like you left." Safety men constantly urge "do-ityourselfers" to purchase machine 446079 04170 1 1 guards, fire extinguishers and other safety gear for home use. They point out you can even buy shatterproof presc iption glasses for everyday wear. Telephone quizzes on home accident prevention--aimed at getting the whole ramilv into the act--are stirring inter est among West Coast refiners and East Coast pipeline people. When one Maine housewife was called and asked to give the safety slogan of the month, she thought for a moment, began to sniff, rushed to the kitchen, took a roast from the oven, returned and an nounced, "Safety begins at home," won $15. So goes the message of safety: through contests, posters, publications, reading racks, speeches and films -- reaching families (and often entire communities) with much the same techniques that have helped industry beat down its internal accidents. Spe cific examples of Mobil people work ing at it total in the thousands. In Kansas, Augusta Refinery Safety Man C. P. Burford and Chemist Rob ert E. Puckett go before schools anTd civic groups with a table-top demon stration of how to handle petroleum products safely. In New York, Marine Transportation Department's Ray Perry served as area chairman of "Safe Boating Week" this year.And over much of the thousand miles of Eastern Seaboard he covers, Eastern Pipe Line Division Safety Man Paul Edwards has given his snapshotand-flannel-board "Story of Joe" (see photos at right). This October he's to present it at the National Safety Con gress in Chicago. Results of all this? It's too early for statistics to answer. But the real answer, safety men in sist, can be found in such instances as when a man off-duty runs over his foot with a power mower--and the blade clanks harmlessly against the steel plate in his safety shoe. Lately it's happened more than once. Or you might ask Walter Burrill for an answer. A blender at Mobil's East Providence, R. I., refinery, he was working in his yard when he heard the crack of an air rifle; a BB pellet smacked him in the eye. "Now that's interesting," he told the plant safety man later. "You'd never think anything like that would happen, would you?" Of course you never know. But all .Mr. Burn'll needed was a new left lens :n his shatterproof glasses. MEET JOE. Jos is me man on the flannel board. Paul Edwards, safety man for Mobil's Eastern Pipe Line Division, has just put him there -- beginning a brief picture story about "an average sort of guy" who heads home from work and sees his world collapse. "Joe's smart hard working, has a wife and couple kids," Mr. Edwards points out building his story with photographs he took of neighbors and friends. He tells the story to pipelined, family gatherings, civic groups, as part of Mobil's around-theclock safety campaign. i "Joe's got a car, he's buying a home, and he's putting away some money for the years ahead. Gradually he's building a world for himself and his family that he wouldn't change for anything. "But he does change it. in a fraction of a second while driving home from work. He changes this picture first--the car, a total wreck. Joe's lucky -- luckier than the thousands who never even live till they get to the hospital. Joe lives. But he can't walk any more . .. "He can't work any more. And quickly ail the pictures change. P'ece ' by piece, his world tumbles down. I *isn Joe's story had a nappy ending. It doesn't, except in that you -nay remember it. ftememoer it happens all the time to guvs like Joe 04171 446080