abled, and 70,272 temporarily totally disabled, annually; or 

 about 5 killed, 22 permanently partially disabled and 182 tem- 

 porarily totally disabled a day. This is, of course, an estimate 

 based on the Washington statistics, and may not be accurate 

 as to the rest of the country. 



Major Griggs, in his address, said: 



"With an industry affecting throughout the United States 

 over 45,000 sawmills and 800,000 employes, regardless of fam- 

 ilies dependent on them, you will agree with me that we are 

 all vitally interested in workmen's compensation." 



If we are vitally interested in compensation laws, should 

 we not be still more vitally interested in the prevention of the 

 need of such compensation; that is, in the instructions for 

 the prevention of accidents and in the practical application of 

 first aid to the injured for the lessening of fatal, serious or 

 prolonged results of accidents when they do occur, interested 

 not only for the sake of 800,000 men employed, but for the fam- 

 ilies dependent on them? 



There is almost no labor utilized in the lumber industries 

 that has not some danger involved in it. The sharp edge of the 

 axe or the jagged teeth of the saw in a moment may cause an 

 injury where unchecked hemorrhage will result in death in a 

 brief space of time. Physicians have signed many a death 

 certificate of men who bled to death from slight injuries and 

 whose lives might easily have been saved by some knowledge 

 of first aid. The application of cobwebs or some other tradi- 

 tional remedy to an open wound or the use of soiled rags in 

 binding it up often produce an infection with crippling or fatal 

 results. 



There is danger to the sawyer from the falling tree, espe- 

 cially when a rotten heart or high wind makes the direction 

 of the fall uncertain; or on steep slopes if the tree shoots 

 sudenly downward, or if a badly strained tree breaks with 

 great force. The handling of the logs at the skidway and the 

 loading onto the trains require skill and agility on the part of 

 the loaders to avoid being caught and crushed by these great 

 pieces of lumber. 



The temporary nature of most of the railroads provide their 

 share of accidents, and danger lurks even in their construc- 

 tion, in the blasting of stumps and rocks, and the thawing out 



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