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Industrial Hygiene D>t*. June, 196$ 518 Slight Rin in 1964 Job Injuries. Still Above 2 Million. Mort thn 2 million U. S. worker* were disabled end 14,200 died because of on.the.;ob injuries in 1964, according to preliminary estimates of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Work injuries added up to 2,050,000 last year--about JO,000 more than for 1963. The number of deaths, 14,200 remained tne same. For the first time m 11 years, the Bureau pointed out, the volume of disabling work injuries remained above the 2.million mark for two consecutive years. Approximately 85.800 workers suffered some degree of permanent disability. Some 95% of the injuries were case* with no permanent aftereffect* Job injuries produced an estimated total of 42 million days of immediate disability. This total is expected to rise to 172 million as delayed effects of serious injuries occur. Some facts concerning the 1964 work injury and death rate in various industries are: The single are* of injury decrease in 1964 was in agriculture. There were fewer fatalities but more injuries among employees m manufacturing m 1964. In transporation and public utilities, work in. juries increased at about the same rate as employment. Both the number of workers and the volume of injuries increased for contract eonstrucoon workers. Injuries among workers m mining, trade, finance, service, and government remained approximately the same as for 1963 .. Safety Standards 14. 6 (May.June, 196$i 5 19 Work.Injury Frequency Rate. The U.S. Department of Labor reported a 5ri increase in the manufacturing work.injuryfrequency rate for 1964 as compared with 1963. The rates for all four quarters of 1964have been higher chan for the comparable periods of 1963. The 1964 rate was 12.7 compared with 12 1 for the previous year. The U.S. Bureau of Mines reported that the frequency rate for rock, and coal*fall fatalities in bituminous coal mines dropped to 0.47 m 1964 a* compared with 0.51 in 1963. However, the bureau reported a rate of 1.14 for mines employing 14 or fewer persons underground, compared with 0.60 for the larger mines. The smaller mines which produced only about 25% of the tonnage, sustained 30% of the total number of the bituminous coal industry s underground fatalities. The bureau's conclusion was : "the abnormally high percentage of the total deaths brought about by (alls in mines employing fewer than 15 men points to the need for more rigid enforcement of safety regulations in this class of mines. '' .. Natl. Safety News 91, 37 (May, 1965) 520 Industrial Solvents Air Pollution Target. The Los Angeles County Air Pollution Contra; District (APCD) is assembling information on which to bate a major step toward cleartng me itmospr.ere of eve.irritating pollutants --re. ducing the volume of solvents which evaporate into me air m tne Los Angeles area each day Industrial cleaning solvents would be involved. A soonesm.an. for the local APCD estimates that some 500 tons of solvents of various kinds -- :rom. c.eanir.g plants, painting operations, industrial cleaning, etc. --evaporate each day Tne-. arv tneir ability to produce eve irritation. The APCD is attempting to grade tr.t.r.. .i.r j automobile exhaust gas at an index of 100. It it estimated that tome 1 , 340 plants o: i:.:.i .r.ci would be affected by any reg..a:ior which may eventually be issued to cover the situ*:.or. Dr.e -r.resoived factor is establishment of a point at which a plant would be considered to :t crosue.r.g enough of a volume of evaporate: solvent to be required to control it. Vhe spoxeimar. said it m.-.gnt be 100 pounds o( evaporation per day. Method of controlling evaporation, shou.s a r..e oe issued, would be left up to in. dividual establishments. Sources in the Los Ar.ge.es area aerospace industry suggested as ar example mat vapors from such solvents as trier..oroem-. .ere would nave to be passed througr. cnarcoa. The APCD expects to present its data or soi.er.t evaporation to the Los Angeles Count-. Board o: Supervisors at a future date and request issuance of a regulation to eover the problem Contamination Control 4, 6-7 (May, 19651 52. Pest Residues m Food. Pest residues in the U.S. food supply are m j.g.-.mcanc from a health standpoint, according to the latest total diet" studies by tne Food and Drug Administration (FDAt Le.ve.> lound in test samples were generally less than 1 of me safe iegal tolerance. FDA savs. idem; that many of tne most commonly used pesticides were not found at all The studies are macr omarket-oasket samples ot groceries collected irom. scores m tnree major cities Groceries VA 1 32