518 GENERAL SCIENCE 



Do not attempt to open the elevator door to enter or leave. 

 The operator should attend to this. 



Shafts, Bolts, Pulleys and Gears. Some of the accidents caus- 

 ing injury from shafts, pulleys and gears teach a valuable lesson. 



Here are a few accidents which were due entirely to thought- 

 lessness. . 



1. Internal injuries and broken legs. Caught on a piece of 

 smooth shafting that runs about 2 feet above platform. 



2. Back broken. Boy climbing up to revolving shaft, in turning 

 to go back to his work, slipped and was caught by shaft. 



3. It is not known whether he was about to step over line shaft 

 or to repair a belt, when he was caught on revolving line shaft. His 

 body struck a pier, and he was dead when first discovered. 



4. It is assumed girl was looking for bad shell in back of machine, 

 when, on raising her head, it struck the driving shaft of machine, 

 causing the scalp to be torn completely from her head. 



5. One other which fortunately did not prove fatal. She was 

 in the act of combing her hair at the back of the roving frame, sup- 

 posedly bending over and combing her hair downward, and her 

 hair became caught around the lower back shaft of the frame. This 

 same accident occurred to two different girls just about a year apart. 

 The true solution of it is that both girls, in their rush to get out 

 early, stole the company's time for a hasty toilet rather than go 

 to the dressing-rooms after dismissal. 



6. An accident that almost proved fatal occurred to a lad of seven- 

 teen, no one being able to give a reason for his being where he was. 

 As nearly as can be determined, the boy was trying some experiment 

 with a piece of rope attached to an iron bar. The rope wound 

 around the shaft (which was some 8 or 9 feet above the floor) caused 

 the iron to whirl around and strike him on the head, fracturing the 

 skull. In this instance the shaft appeared so inaccessible as not to 

 need covering, yet the boy managed to get injured by it. 



Firearms. Firearms of all sorts are dangerous. They are made 

 to kill. Children should not be allowed by older people to handle 

 them. 



Never point a gun or pistol at any one. It is nearly always the 

 gun or pistol that was thought to be unloaded that does the killing. 



