LOSSES BY ACCIDENT
Witte, E. E.
Losses By Accident. By E. E. WITTE. secretary, Wisconsin Industrial Commission. THE Industrial commission has prepared a table analyzing the cause of industrial accidents which occurred in...
...The commission, in its table, computes the time lost due to accidents in accordance with the recommendations of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions...
...A larger number of accidents were caused by handling objects than through machinery of all kinds, Other causes of many accidents were falls of persons, falling objects, hot substances, cranes, derricks and hoists, and falls in construction work...
...This means that the total wage loss to workmen in Wisconsin because of accidents during these three years was between $12,000,000 and $15,-BOO.OOO...
...The total working time lost because of these accidents was 5,951,838 days...
...All deaths and cases of permanent disability are computed at 6,000 days lost, while other permanent disabilities are expressed as a percentage of this figure...
...This table is the first of a series to be prepared by the commission analyzing the accident experience of Wisconsin with a view toward discovering how the loss due to accidents may be reduced...
...Falling trees caused almost as many deaths during these three years as all machinery accidents, as also did falls of persons, falls in construction work and electricity...
...During these three years 40,980 accidents occurred in Wisconsin which caused a disability of more than seven days' duration...
...In this manner the commission shows not only the number of accidents but their severity as well...
...THE Industrial commission has prepared a table analyzing the cause of industrial accidents which occurred in Wisconsin during the three years, 1915, 1916, and 1917...
...The analysis of the causes of accents made by the commission shows that only 19 per cent of the accidents were machine accidents...
...During this three year period there were but 165 accidents caused by electricity, but they caused a loss ol working time ol uri,om days, while there were 2,467 accidents due to falling objects but these caused a loss of but 150,000 working days...
...In 517 cases death resulted from the injury...
Vol. 10 • June 1918 • No. 6
