A newly employed female worker in a cotton mill was passing a carding machine, when her loose trousers were caught up by a belt, with the result that she suffered a serious leg fracture, Amongst some of the other more significant accidents are the following n apprentice aged sixteen was attempting to mount a small two-@inch belt on a pulley, He was holding some cotton waste in one hand, which became caught up by the bel, and resulted in his arm being twisted aróund the shaft, serious injuries being sustained.
'A worker was dissolving some cement used for) fastening brass electric lamp bases to the glass, bulb. The machine used for this process consists of a rotating" frame in which the lamp base and' bulb are held together by spring pressure, whilst gas jets play on their junction to dry and set the cement which was applied in a plastic condition, "Normally the cement is simply placed in a tín of alcohol and allowed to dissolve with the aid of a stirring paddle, a On this occasion the cement was required in a hurry so the tin was placed on top of the metal baffle above the gas jets of the machine, in order to accelerate the dissolving. The alcohol in the tin caught fire "and the worker in alarm for the consequences attempted to seize the tin and. throw it out of the workroom, His' clothes caught fire and he received burns from which he died in hospital the next day.
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