WAR INDUSTRY ACCIDENTS IN U.S.A.
(Rec. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 30
Dr. V. G. Heiser, consultant to the National Association of Manufacturers, told an industrial conference at Boston that 42,600 American war produce tion workers had been killed, either on or off the job since Pearl Harbour.
He added that 11,000 war workers had been killed or injured every day since December 7, despite the industry's efforts for accident prevention. Dr. Heiser said that 968.000,000 man hours had been lost to vital war work this year alone, because of absence from work due to all causes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 7
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