FACTORY ACCIDENTS
INCREASE IN BRITAIN.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) RUGBY, October 11. A serious increase in factory accidents in 1940 is revealed in the report of the chief inspector of factories, who says there were 1372 fatal and 230,607 non-fatal accidents—increases of 24 per cent and 20 per cent respectively over the figures for 1939. , The main cause was the increase in the number of people employed on the war effort, but the inspector complains of the tendency to take less care than usual and says it is unsound to argue that carelessness is justified because of the risks that have to be taken by the men in the forces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 4
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109FACTORY ACCIDENTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 4
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