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. 7 (a)-Workmen in Unclassified Occupations. Minor Accidents. Classification According to Bodily Location of Injury. Internal injuries (including partial asphyxiation by gas). 11 10 Minor Accidents to Workmen While on Duty. Causes of Accidents by Industry Groups for the Twelve Months Ending September 30, 1912. CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS. ALL INDUSTRIES. Engines, working machinery and power transmission apparatus.. Elevators, derricks, cranes, hoists and other lifting apparatus. Steam Boilers, steam piping, boiling water, explosions, etc..... Explosive material-explosions of powder, dynamite, etc............... Infiammable and acid materials, gases, vapors, etc... Collapse and downfall of material.. Falls from ladders, scaffolds, trestles, buildings, Loading and unloading freight, material, etc.. Vehicles-falls from, run etc.. over or down by wagons, trolley cars, Railway operations-run over, fell from, or struck by engines, etc.. Hand tools, hand worked machinery, etc. etc.... Collapse of excavations, falls of material in mines, trenches, sewers, etc. Contact with electric apparatus, live wires, etc, falls from telegraph poles. Woodworking machinery, circular saws, shapers, etc.... Metal shaping machinery, steam hammers, hand forgings, etc.. TABLE No. 8. Permanent or Temporary Suspension of Work in Manufacturing Establishments. This table gives the names and locations of manufacturing plants throughout the State that were closed wholly or partly, permanently or temporarily, during the twelve months ending September 30, 1912. The character of the industry is also shown, together with a brief statement of the reasons for closing. In the case of temporary suspensions, the length of time involved in days and weeks, wherever ascertained, is also given. The number of establishments reporting a more or less extended period of total or partial suspension of work, is twentynine. Of these, thirteen were closed permanently, three because of removal from the State; three others were purchased and permanently closed by competitors in the same line of business; two were consolidated with plants outside the State; two others were closed under bankruptcy proceedings; two were closed because of lack or orders; one because the business had ceased to be profitable; and one-an iron mining concern, because of operating expenses being too heavy, and the vein of ore having become almost exhausted. Seven establishments were closed indefinitely, all because of "lack of orders." Repairing of machinery was responsible for the interruption of work in four establishments; "lack of orders" produced the same results in two others; the installation of machinery, shortage of coke, and a freshet, each caused a suspension of work in one establishment. These interruptions lasted from one day, in the case of a rubber mill which was forced to suspend work on account of a freshet, to two weeks required by two different plants to make repairs to their machinery. Of the permanently closed plants, two were located in Paterson, two in Harrison, and one each in Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Nutley, Rahway, Burlington, Wharton, Oxford Township and Midland Park. The products of these establishments included broad and ribbon silk, leather goods, underwear, lace curtains, wall paper, stove polish, marine engines, duplicating machines, and iron ore. The temporary suspensions effected practically all parts of the State, the greater number being reported from the northern and middle counties. 14 STAT. |