The full text on this page is automatically extracted from the file linked above and may contain errors and inconsistencies.
oocurv: : , TS ROOM THE WORKS PROGRA M No . 4-1587 -- Works Progr e ss .Adrr.inis t:.."ation For Rel ease to afte rnoon nowspapors Tue sday , Soptcmbe r 21 , 1937. WPA Safety Mea.surEl s ]ring Low Accident Rate Safety measures of the Works Progress Ad.mini stration have resulted in an i nj ,U'y and f a t a lity ra te far below normal expectan cy , according to r eports released today qy- Harry L. Hopkins , Works Progress .Administrat or . In 19 35 t he Department of Labor, bu. sing its estima tes on in,jury expe ctancy table s, pr edicted. 2,700 fat a liti e s and 454, 000 lost-time i njuries unde r t he WP.A progr am during a pe riod of twelve mon t h s . The Civil Work s .Ad- ministration had reported 375 acc i den t a l deaths and 48 , 000 injuri es i nvolving lo ss of time in nearly one a 11d. one- f i fth billion man- hours of work , from Nmrember , 1933, to .April, 19 34 . There we r e only 814 a ccidental deaths and 95 , 000 disablin.g injuri es during five and one- t hird billion man- hours worked by WPA em:rloyes during t he two years from July, 1935, to Jun8 , 1937 . Th is is e qua l to 100 , 000 me n working eigh t hours a day for 25 yea rs . The '\VPA has ca rri ed on an intens ive and con tinuous sa fety campaign under the direction of W. O. Wheary, Dir e ctor of Safety, with particular emphasis on t he train ing of for eme n , abundant proviRion of safe ty devices and fr equen t i nspo ction of pr ojects and cq,1ipment, State nnd district safe ty staffs a r e held responsible for t he safety of workers. Thousands of first-a i d men have be e n tra.ined. New corre ctive mea s,.1res for commonplace types of .acciacnt s ar e constantly being developed . Vehic l es , falling obj ects and falls of persons were the pri n cipal causes of fatal a ccidents on 'WPA projects, while handling objects, hand tools . f a lls of pe rson s and falling objects account ed for most of the disabling injuries. - - - - - 0 - - - - - Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
@FedFRASER