Since 100 persons were affected by fumes or injured during a panic due to the leak of ammonia gas in an egx-[packing plant in Whangpoo Road, the number of persons who were victims of industrial accidents during May reached the total of 342. There was only one fatality, however.
One hundred and ten women were involved. The causes of accidents to -319 persons are known with sufficient "accuracy; 217 were the Subject of detailed enquiry and in~ struction in prevention, ighty-three accidents took place on power-driven. machinery, but mone was fatal. Twenty-nine persons wer injured by falling, one fatally: and 38 were struck by falling bodies. Nine received injuries from hot, molten oF corrosive substances.
'Classified by industries the greatest number—108—was associated with the food and drinks trades. Sixty-six took place in' machinery and metal products trades, 18, one fatal, on buildings under construction, 43 fin textile industries, 19 in printing trades, 27 were associated with trans ort occupations.
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