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Identifier: industrialmedici1919mock (find matches)
Title: Industrial medicine and surgery
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Mock, Harry E. (Harry Edgar), 1880-
Subjects: Occupational diseases Working class Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : W. B. Saunders Company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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eye doctors of the plant. Combined with the use of gogglesit was necessary to teach the men to report at once to the doctorif any particles flew in the eye. The dangers of allowing a fellowemployee to fool with the eye was impressed upon the men in adozen different ways until at last this rule was observed by all. One day in a box factory where old boards, occasionally withnails in them, were sawed up, an employee was struck in the eye by ACCIDENT PREVENTION 327 a flying nail. His goggles were around his neck. He had neglected touse them because his foreman, an old timer, didnt insist upon his menusing the fool things. The loss of the eye resulted. The history ofthe case was posted throughout the plant by the surgeon as propagandain favor of goggles. The next day a nail again flew from a board andstruck the goggles being worn by the employee. The glass over oneeye was cracked in a hundred places but the eye was saved. It wasact of Providence for the broken goggle was shown to every an
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Pig. 43.—Correct way of using goggles. (Courtesy General Electric Co.) employee in that department and this, combined with the recent case ofblindness, drove the lesson home. Even the foreman was convertedbut this didnt save his job (Fig. 44). Whenever goggles are used the glass should be of the best material—that which \\ ill crack but will not fly into splinters. A number ofsuch goggles are made. Many other appliances worn by employees will prevent accidents.The study of each history of accident will enable the surgeon to suggestmany such means of prevention. 328 INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY We will next consider the second class of accidents: those dueto some physical or mental condition found in the employees. It is quite obvious, even to some hardened foremen, that if a manwho is blind in one eye, or who has lost an arm, or who has some othergross handicap, is placed at certain occupations, he is liable to injurehimself or to cause accidents to others. Or, if a man is ment

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