H—ll

Table XIX—Accidents in Building and Construction Industry, Calendar Year 1949

78

Cause. Type of Injury. Total. Temporary. Permanent Partial. . Fatal. Machinery Vehicles Explosions, fires, hot substances Poisonous and corrosive substances Electricity Falls of persons Stepping on or striking against fixed objects Falling objects not being handled by person injured Falls of earth, &c. Handling objects Hand tools Animals Foreign body in eye* Miscellaneous 181 43 39 13 5 476 175 199 652 251 4 42 36 25 1 15 1 2 4 2 1 1 1 2 206 45 39 13 6 492 176 201 656 253 4 42 38 Totalf 2,116 50 5 2,171 * In former years some of these accidents would have been included in the machinery or hand-tools groups, t See note to Table XVII.