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T h e I m p o r t a nce o r A c c u r a t e v i s i o n i n
P r e v e n t i o n o f Injury
By Frank Mackin, Engineman, South em Division
ACK of every accident there are
B often many underlying factors
not apparent at the time and place
that have some bearing on the cause,
and nowhere is this so true as in the
matter of ability to see.
Our sense of sight is the primary
contributing agent for approximately
70 per cent of our muscular activities.
In many cases it is our response or
failure to respond to visual impression
that determines whether Safety
or injury results. If indistinct vision
causes a delay of even a fraction of
a second in recognizing a point of
danger, that delay may be just enough
to tip the scales to the side of an unfortunate
incident.
Confidently, this is the explanation
for many accidents where the injured
person truthfully says he did not see
the danger ahead. Beware of blindness
due to the specular reflection—
more commonly known as glare—from
brightly polished material within the
range of vision.
The foreman in the shops should
commence his daily work with the
thought that he must, so far as it lies
in his power, provide a safe place for
his men to work. He should supervise
his men by thoughtful consideration
so that they will not be rushed in
their work into becoming careless.
Work can be performed expeditiously,
and at the same time in a sane and
safe way.
Supervision is a leading element in
accident prevention and the term implies
more than a casual oversight of
the men to be supervised. It means
a human interest in their welfare. It
is possible, in this consideration, to
make the term so elastic as to include
the engineman as supervisor of the
fireman on his engine; or the conductor
as the supervisor of his brakeman;
the mechanic as supervisor of the
helper who has been assigned to him.
New York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928
Every foreman in every department
should so undertake his duties as
to have his men do their work in the
safe way. Fewer errors and better
quality work is a safe rule that brings
rewards.
Recklessness and What It Costs
Employes
TyRUISES, broken bones and other
ID injuries, even deaths, are constantly
occurring among railroad employes
when a second's thought, a bit
of care, would have kept the man
alive and in sound condition many
years longer. His life would have
been happier, his family better cared
for, if his recklessness had not deprived
them of his capabilities.
Examples of needless injuries to
New York Central employes, all of
them of recent occurrence, are given
here:
A brakeman's arm was amputated
whin he fell and was run over while
attempting to get on moving cars.
Another brakeman had foot and
ribs injured when he stumbled on
running board and fell between moving
cars.
A baggageman, while crossing
tracks ahead of passenger train, was
struck by the train and killed.
A ladder on a tugboat broke as the
captain was descending it, and he was
severely bruised by the fall.
The hand of a car repairman was
badly crushed while he was attempting
to repair lock lifter on car. Other
cars coupled on, catching his hand.
An engineman was severely bruised
about the head and back, when he
fell from top of engine cab into a
hopper car on an adjoining track.
An electrician, while changing an
electric light bulb, fell from the top
of a twelve-foot ladder, breaking his
collar bone.
A bridge and building laborer was
killed when he fell from top of engine
house which his gang was preparing
to dismantle.
A car man off duty was crawling
through ears on his way home from
work. The train was moved and he
fell and was run over. Result—three
fingers of right hand amputated.
While walking between two tractors,
one of which was in gear, a
crane operator caught his leg and
fractured it as the switch was thrown.
Stepping out of the way of a west
bound train, a section laborer was
struck by eastbound train and killed.
Being struck and run over by engines
or cars is still one of the outstanding
causes of death to employes.
A freight laborer's leg was badly
strained when he stepped off the side
of the bridge as he was trucking
freight. His leg doubled up under
him as he fell.
Another freight laborer's foot was
badly bruised while trucking freight
with hand truck. He was struck by
a tractor being operated by another
employe.
When two automobiles collided on
a crossing, one struck the crossing
watchman and fractured his ankle.
New York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928
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^f^olations
Special Train Through Ohio and
Stimulates Sugar Beet Imdust
By E.J. LeenhoutS, General Agricultural Agent, Lines West
Part of the 250 sugar beet growers who gathered to witness the sugar beet demonstration of the New York Central Lines
Agricultural Relations Department when the special train stopped at Charlotte, Mich.
"HAT'S the matter with
the sugar beet business?
" W e all right—if you use
horse sense."
This was the chorus of two songs,
different in words, but identical in
tune, which were sung this spring on
board two New York Central Lines'
Sugar Beet Demonstration Trains,
one in Ohio and the other in Michigan.
While the Ohio folks were chanting—•
"A Beet Where a Beet Ought to Be,"
the Michigan folks were humming
"More Tons per Acre Make Greater
Profits," and everyone, including the
New York Central Lines, joined in
the mighty chorus quoted above.
The subject and tune of the song,
coupled with the immediate response
following its singing, leads us to predict
that it will have a greater sweetening
effect than any song ever sung.
At any rate, after two years of
planning and consultations, and several
weeks of intensive preparation,
on February 6 the Ohio Sugar Beet
Demonstration Train started from
Toledo for Findlay to carry the message
of better beet culture into twenty-six
localities on our lines in Northern
Ohio. This train, in charge of
Earle G. Reed, Agricultural Agent,
New York Central Lines West, carried
with it as the main speaker one of the
country's foremost authorities on
sugar beets, Dr. J. A. Brock, Agriculturist,
of the Continental Sugar Company,
Toledo. Included in this threecar
train was a lecture car and another
car fitted up with a series of
exhibits, prepared by the Continental
Sugar Company, pointing out distinctly
and forcefully the steps which lead
to profits in the sugar beet business.
The expense of these exhibits was
borne jointly by the Continental, the
Toledo, the Columbia and the Ohio
Sugar Companies. Officials from
these various companies were on the
train from time to time to assist in
the program and also did much to
create interest in the train through
advance work and publicity.
The twenty-six meetings and thirtythree
lectures were attended by 2,346
people, or better than ninety people to
each stop. Since the lectures and exhibits
were designed to appeal to
sugar beet growers only, of whom
there are relatively few to each locality,
this record indicates that a vast
majority of the sugar-beet growers
attended the train.
Supplementing his slogan of "A
Beet Where a Beet Ought to Be," Dr.
Brock pointed out in his lectures that
to get maximum profits a grower must
(1) seed early, (2) fertilize properly,
(3) save sturdy seedings, (4) cultivate
consistently, (5) supervise the
beet growers, (6) rotate crops properly,
and (7) do fall plowing. Each
one of these poi'.ts was brought out
forcefully in his lecture and illustrated
clearly by exhibits in the exhibit
car.
One of the exhibits which attracted
a great deal of attention was that
showing the part which the railroads
play in the sugar beet industry. It
showed that in addition to transporting
the labor, seed, fertilizer, implements,
limestone, etc., to the farm, the
railroads of Ohio transported 100,000
tons of coal, 10,000 cars of sugar
beets, 80,000 tons of limestone to the
Ohio factories, 2,000 cars of beet pulp
back to Ohio farms, and 1,500 cars of
sugar to various markets.
The operation of this train was confined
to points on the New York Central
Railroad and the Cincinnati
Northern, including the following
towns: Findlay, Lime City, Dunbridge,
Bowling Green, Pemberville,
Hatton, Stony Ridge, Cygnet, Toledo,
Elmore, Fremont, Millbury, Graytown,
Oak Harbor, Curtice, Delta,
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