"There were 224 industrial and occupational accidents reported to the Shanghai Municipal Council during June. Of these, eleven were fatal. Twelve women were injured. The Causes of 217 accidents are known "with sufficient accuracy; 130 were the subject of investigation and instruc-lion in prevention.
Classified by causes, 72 accidents Were associated with machinery moved by mechanical power, one being fatal. Five were due to electrical causes, three fatal; 14 resulted from use of bot or corrosive substances, twa being fatal. Thirty-eight persons were injured by falling bodies, one fatally, and 24 fell, two with fatal results, Four accidents were associated with the use of hand-drawn vehicles, one being fatal.
Classified by industries 39, two fatal, took place in the machinery ana metal products trades: 12, one fatal, in the metal industry: six, one fatal, in woodworking trades: 16, one fetal, on buildings under construction: 25, two fatal, in textile trades: 18, one fatal, in the clothing industry: 13, one fatal, in the, food and drinks trades; and 43, one fatal in transportation activities.
Man Seizes Belt In one fatal case in the textile trades a worker employed as a fitter Apparently attempted to shift the main belt on a carding machine on to the loose pulley in order to grind the cards. It is believed that his coat sleeve was caught by the belt, and, in order to, extricate it, he gripped the belt and was carried to the main shaft, His head hit the concreie ceiling, fracturing the skull and one leg; the body was carried down by the belt and dropped. A worker in another mill suffered compound fracture of the left arm and fracture of ribs under somewhat similar circumstances on a waste opener: his sleeve was caught by a main belt, and his arm drawn into the main pulley, but apparently he did not grip the belt.
Another fatal case occurred when a cotton mil chain grate boiler was undergoing fortnightly cleaning. The blowdown valve was found io be clogged, and a mechanic and his assistant were detailed to clear this. The valve is a worm geared type, flanged to the boiler blowdown line and to the pipe leading to a drain. The mechanic in error opened ap the flanges on the boiler side of-the valve, so that, as the boiler was still under some steam pressure, the contents were emitted with a roar, Th. assistant was trapped between the Tushing stream of water and steam, prie and the wall at the back of the boiler room. He lost his sense- of judgment, opened a flue cleaning Goer, amd rushed into the still hot combustion chamber, where he was liter found dead.
In a sheet galvanising works a.man climbed on the top of a flue of a smelting plant which was not work ing, in order to dry his clothes. Covers of the flue had been taken off to rake repairs: the worker fel! into the hot flue channel and was burnt to death.
Struck by Planks In a timber works, some planks on a flat truck had been taken from x gang saw on a mezzanine floor down rails on a ramp by means of a cable hoist. A worker was detaching the cable and hitching on another to take the truck up the ramp to another saw, when the planks fell off the truck on to his back. He was killed, Planks are usually laid on trucks with short lengths laid across at right angles for bonding. This was not done in the instance re-
Ported, One fatal case of electric shock and one with non-fatal results occurred in a cloth dyeing factory. Three Workers were pushing a truck on a mezzanine floor when it struck some S-phase power wiring run vertically in wood casing on a wooden pillar. The capping was broken and the steel frame of the truck cut through the insulation to the conductor. A' current was then transmitted through the steel handle of the truck to the victims,
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