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Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending Sept. 30, 1912. TABLE No. 4.-Transportation by Steam and Electric Roads, and by Water.

CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS.

Falls from engines or trains while in motion..

Falls from bridges, trestles, etc., into ash pits, etc...
Falls from scaffolds, ladders, buildings, etc...
Caught between moving cars and platforms.
Collapse and downfall of material...
Collapse of trestles, ladders, scaffolds, etc..
Inflammable material, explosions of..

Run over or struck by locomotives, trains, cars, etc.
Crushed between cars, or under wheel while coupling.
Explosions of boilers, steam pipes, etc....

Struck by overhead bridges, or other parts of road structure

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TABLE No. 4.-(Continued).

CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS.

Flying or projecting material from passing trains..

Caught in frogs or switches handling turntables..
Stepping on or off engines or cars.....

Running machinery, power transmission apparatus.
Derailed cars

Collisions

Run down by moving cars or other vehicles (trolley employes)

Misplaced switches, laying rails..

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Common tools, wrenches, hammers, etc...

Derricks, elevators, hoisting apparatus, etc...
Contact with live wire..

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Loading and unloading freight and other material by hand.
Bursting of emery wheel, flying pieces of metal, etc.....
Water transportation-falls from vessels or docks into water
Struck by recoil of cable...

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Other causes

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Summary of Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty.
Injuries by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending
September 30, 1912.

TABLE No. 4 (a)-Transportation Employes.

RESULTS OF ACCIDENTS.

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Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending Sept. 30, 1912. TABLE No. 5.-Tunnelmen, Excavators, Miners, Trench

Diggers, etc.

CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS.

Number killed or

who died of injuries.

Number seriously in-
jured.

Total number killed

and injured.

Collapse of caissons, trenches, excavations, etc..
Elevators, cranes, derricks, chutes, etc..

Railway operation, run down by engines, trains, cars, etc..
Falls into trenches, excavations, shafts, etc..
Collapse or downfall of material..

Explosive material-explosions of powder, dynamite, etc...
Inflammable-hot and acid materials, vapors, gases, etc...
Defective appliances, tools, etc...

Engines, working machinery, etc...
Run down by steam roller....

Loading and unloading cars, etc...

Steam boilers, steam piping, explosions, etc..

Flying or projecting material from passing trains.
Other causes

Totals

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Summary of Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Character of Injuries by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending

September 30, 1912.

TABLE No. 5 (a)-Tunnelmen, Miners, Excavators and Other Outside Laborers.

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Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending Sept. 30, 1912. TABLE No. 6.-Linemen and Other Electrical Workers.

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Collapse of scaffolds, ladders, buildings, etc....

Contact with electrically charged body of fellow-workman.
Material out of place...

Contact with testing switch..

Totals

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Summary of Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Character of Injuries by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending September 30, 1912.

TABLE No. 6 (a)-Linemen and Other Electrical Workers.

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Major Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending Sept. 30, 1912.

TABLE No. 7.-Unclassified Occupations.

CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS.

Engines, working machinery, power transmission apparatus
Elevators, hoists, cranes, derricks and other lifting ap-
paratus

Steam boilers, steam piping, explosions, of, etc....
Explosive material-explosions of powder, dynamite, etc...
Inflammable hot and acid materials, gases, vapors, etc.....
Collapse and downfall of material, buildings, etc..
Falls from ladders, scaffolds, trestles, buildings, etc..
Loading and unloading freight and other material by hand..
Vehicles-falls from, run over or run down by, collisions
with trucks, cars, etc...

Hand tools, hammers, wrenches, hand working machinery, etc.

Contact with electric apparatus, live wires, etc.. Woodworking machinery-circular and band saws, shapers, etc.

Falls into fly-pits or on workshop floors.

Molten metal, spilling of, falling into, etc., burns from other causes

Falls into oil tanks, tubs of boiling water, dyes, chemicals, etc.

Water transportation-falls

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from vessels or docks into

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Falls from chimneys, smokestacks, tanks, etc..

Railway operations-run over, struck by, and falls from

trains, engines, cars, etc....

Run down by steam roller....

Other causes

Totals

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