Citation

Myers G. Publ. Am. Stat. Assoc. 1915; 14(111): 672-694.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1915, American Statistical Association)

DOI

10.2307/2964900

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Seems the adoption I could force things within the last few years of Workmen's Compensation laws, the opportunity for securing that as to the frequency causes of industrial accidents have been greatly increased. Previous there was no system informs any state received and arranged reports of all accidents taking place in industrial establishments, and this is true and faithful as well as nonfictional accidents. Vocational investigations might be made here and there buy special official bodies, but there was no provision for inquiry and report....

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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