Citation

Harris HJ. Q. Publ. Am. Stat. Assoc. 1914; 14(107): 177.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1914, American Statistical Association)

DOI

10.2307/2964949

PMID

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Abstract

The occupational hazard of any employment is now matter in which the general public is taking an ever increasing interest. Decent wave of accident insurance legislation in the United States is called attention to the hot accident rate in many of our industries and occupations in the recent arbitration wage controversy between locomotive engineers and their employers, emphasis is placed on the fact that betrayed life of the engineer was from 10 to 12 years; the presidents of two prominent trade unions not long ago urged that the protection of such organizations was necessary to prevent men from being thrown on the scrap heap at an early age under present-day conditions. We know so little, however, about hazard occupations and the link the working life at the present time but any attempt to measure the loss of a group of employees caused by accident, sickness, and general loss of working power from additions peculiar to occupation is usually blocked by the absence of any accurate information on these subjects.....

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".

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