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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Aug 17 DOC NMA172 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newsweek Article - A Matter of Life and Death A Matter of Life Life Life Life and and and Death Death Death signs on grinding machines warning operators to wear protective guggks big signs on plant with cantioner Don't Gamble With Safety And somehon the om deles convey the maser: WE Pe sea bene Maat wing af Siacmcen industry is safe and probably getting safer The National Safety Line f fore ota that Amann than in their sath sath sath sath the signs might well read Warming Work ing May Be Hazardous to Your Heath Materials and processes becoming are becoming name complex and dangerous sulety tends to take second place in speed of production a lethal blend of criminess and complex result in 2 mths by juries and 11,000 deaths every year industrial accidents Or as former Secretary of Labor George Shitte Shitte starkly puts it During the past four years mand Americans have been killed where y work then in Vietnam Almost surely Shultz understates the case The goverment's goverment's own statistics show that the rate of uniustrial acci- dents soared by 23 per cent between 193 1 1967 the latest year for which Some lave caily sixtech heen compied But since states cooperate with the Federal government in Lesing recurds the Labur Department's figures are based on mirstiaires filled out by _mudung _mudung An ^ 2 the businessmen complain such critics as president L.W. Abel of the United Steet workers tim make honest reports If a fellow breaks his leg Abel charges the company will bring him to work in preparing taxi give a sofst oft job really just let him at arcand and not report the acci dent Consumer Consumer advocate Halph Nader who is a book on industrial ducer Nader says once warned a com pany doctor that he would be looking another another job if he published a report the phunt phunt All an AFL safety commit- ten echimated in wee the ful s tistics tell only half the sony tim tre werdent comes to milli diching tn ite Sans fre fre fre fre fre fre rearch firm working for the Latin De- partment estimates that no fewer than 25 million workers are mjured every year -twelve times the official figure Suu v0 more are dumbled by occupys- tional tional diseases Gond Earth Acculent rates are highest for jobs involved with wresting resources from the earth Mrung quarrying logging and well drillung all exact Whatever Whatever the mdustry the Beet otumt napia killer is the motor velucie from the farm tractor to the fork truck in the factory But the greatest number of job accidents result Tiom falls and falling objects such as the Juge long pipe at U.S. Steel Curp.'s Cary works that clogged up with sage and cashed List waiter kilbag three nwn ani jung foe Apart from outright accidents no one Las for sure her many wwwlers havo buen struck dayn by silent killers in thc form of CELINA Osmicale noxious TunicsTunics and Cutitaang Cutitaang dus jaurinios that have become commonplace ingredients of the manufacturing process Because of the high custs of installing safety equip ment small companies with old plants cana cana disproportionate share of the dis abdlitics in Muskegon Mich for exam- ph the Lakey Foundry Co. has only 1,000 employees but more than 350 muts demanding compensation for injuries have been filed against the company The problem a tluck carpet of shea dust Newsweek . ~~ 7 . aad a we . !~ 8 . __ - 2 om eed a Pd ve cae . .~ 1 . es w ee . * w= . . 2 : , j . N BUSINESS AND FINANCE The Most Dangerous Jobs In scent years U.S. manufacturne have actually grown more dangerous figures Late on the jobs of is permioners permioners permioners worked m the is is k k undies compted by ste WARTS Cos 1958 1967 o 10 20 30 40 T LIPPER RRA Foowto Fe - an meer ne iOne fo t E =e. ee 50G PRODUCIS -_- TE ee ae perks The Fue Tart The 2. -- and perks perks of ces. Fue and discme make the worst record 4 APIDATED METAL APIDATED =F bem ee. 3 to td PRODUCTS frown the sand used in the casting process Inhaled over a long period of time the 51077 fine particles caine clever clever a condition s that transforms eres into apples racked PLASTIC that racked transforms nf sughing | bd The founding's air wasted wasted in 1915 and found to contain ten times the re- ommended safe level of dust Twenty ba later the limits lnd been cut in yearshalf but the air was about as dirty as ever Lakey president Guy F. Campbell PRODUCTS Bopee fie Ph ahkee phi lves lves a problem isut Muskegon Muskegon law- _ feria uous | | Jay Mi- yer S. Mi- Mi- explanation | Mi-Mi- the more Because the maximum liability of a Michigan Bi MACHINERY foundry black in the case of silicous is on,12,5 plus medical and fucral expenses Me says it has been so inexpensive disable or kill 20 to a man that it has not been wrthwinie to clean up S^>licosis is just one Ad- and deadly enim many crippling diem commi Althigh to mdustry In the insulating trade esti mates Dr. Irving J. Sellet of New were York's Mount Sinai School School cent of all the | siitests ce. of workers workers workers re Medicine & per will die from a will way of asbestos identi eks discase discase Swedish fed in The discase was identi rate has not gone up since it last 1924 yet when New York City safTehtye recgoenredralilyn the U.S. hainsdustrial- good Venal And that indifference to approach health chemical wadespread Alore the nation's ) million contracted firm ers have than 100,000 of textile work- or brown- contracted bvssinosis spent hung disease 90,000 stringing office according to hon inhing inhing cotton dust estimates made by New investment antiquated paid Jersey's Sen. Harrison Williams Yet an articic in the American Texnic Reporter a widely read trade publication dis disease as thing thought misses the a of coal which has been the most din- gerous occupation in the U.S. In fact coal mines have claimed the get around to enacting the first muno- safety law until 1911 : It was not until 1965 and the capimum of Consolidation Loals mie at ang WW wa TS that Cont os yeas comwehensive pte Safety a more comwehensive Safety Act With the added disclosure that thou- smuds & miners had tac moe to civ graves by pneumoconinser or lung disease the new net set the first hits on the kevel of coal dust permitted in under- ground chambers But effective enforce ment of the 190 standards has herm hobbled by the failure of the Nixon ministration to appoint a new Drector of Ninks replace Democrat John F. O'Leary Althigh apropriations appropriations for the Bureau of Mines quadrupled last year to 13 million to live une mine in- apevios Nader charged last week that que agency was actually conducting only eighteenth as many inspections as generally unimpressive industrial-industrial- a many causes none of thein reflecting much credit on flanse responsible Union too often are willing in barter safety for a wage hike Employers tend to try to coax a little nioic life from www and unsale machinery State sa^>rv standards are ton often and infect and du aren't ment inspectors to enforce the oues on the books Indeed four states have no safety mspectors at all and the Bureau of Labor 51077 ER AND aER PRODUCTS ; ECR MASTRIES Cc po: LEATHER PRODUCTS . 7 1. t I. od funn > | ELECTRICHE MACHINERY 10 40 Sm ewere tenss oe ke good enough Nor is it up to the standard of my Ewropean countries where job satty as a matter of national polka A British factory worker is only third as likely to be disabled as his U.S. coun- Only terpart one out of every 12 000 Swedish wows is titled at unt ..... than half the U.S. and the acident 1955 Net Gain By careful planning a few US minpanies have act enviable ree- ords Through a total approach in safety for 15 millon mamlungs factory operated without & ample drabling injury A Houmo Houmo construct construct around the have a building and found the a safety net 50 off in faster production faster production plant geeddcue ane moving beyond the plant gates Indeed the impetus for stiller standards has been up by venal ductors who attended last ILO meeting in Africa where in- lenor lenor races are bound to be new diseases more superior feated ago afflicted by propic de- beeNnowmhoerree fhlaasgrant than in the minig annidrouscountry phosgrue process- the disregard for safety Statistics estimates that of the 1,524 state inspectors in the entire country only 27 are available for general safety inspec tion turd of the number of fish andd game wardens in the U.S. While the record is certainly better it suhed Routinely deadly is slupped about the phosgrue gas ing into placet Finnes of the common fertizer annidrous ammonia are le than at was 50 years ago is clearly not thal as sharun by the death of right Angmot 17 1970 65 ~ _ - - o i . wen, . p " y be i. a Pd e o nany me + cum: + ener Cnr = BUSINESS AND FINANCE residents of Crete Neb when two tank derailed cars carrying the staff were there last year Becaine so many of these kazards inolve transportation be- cause railroad acexdents increased by an alarming 66 per cent between 1963 pressure lately has focused on im- proving the standards of the nation's crumbling rail network Last week the House approved and sent to conference committee a bill grying the Depart- of ment Transportation broad powers to set new standards for the shipment of hazardous cargoes No Hiding Place But Congress has yet to come to grips with a stringent effective national industrial safety act The time may be at hand at long last workmen themselves themselves are beginnin%g protfoer cprtoti eco tin on Sa any offis cial of the United Auto Workers Th men AUTOS Enter the V It is proclai general mana unlike any oth With that Del men to Genera to the 1.1 mil a 4 _. 7x | re yy ._ Try e - ~ es \~- y > 2 . . oe an Ly >. re ~ -v otf >. oe, ; te i. ^' . .. . . : a - . - Fee $ SS ise -S | . ~~ s . - ... Seen , see i ~~. com - have abandoned the object syn Arena Hint insed to assume a guy could protect homself Now they see there are a lot of environmental situations that can't be handled by safety goggles and hard shoes And they are up in arms Vega will be Tectig the sent th Neen aad nower enLIDE ministration has sent up a bill that would Horsepower : Mhciptane delegate the power to establish and enforce new safety regulations to a five- did not annou within man Presidential panel But Congress divided between this measure and a House hill that would give the Secretary of Labor the direct authority to order Trier eliminate companies to tices Or . sized labor and unsafe job practhe vocal re- formers mlading Nader support the Ilouse version while the Chamber of Commerce and the National Apatin of Mammacia Mammacia pack the Ad ius tion Because of this impasse the pro pws pect for passage of either bill is rated alam But any extended deadlock seems sure to ignite protest among who see the delay as a plan matteorf Me and death In a nation deeply con- backslid and cerned with human economic ress says George Shultz such dmg is matter for distress 6 ,,'