Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — How Much Accidents Cost. [ARTICLE]

How Much Accidents Cost.

The actual number of workmen killed and injured annually in the Unitled States is not known definitely. The best authorities, however, have WtL mated fatalities to the number of 'O,000 to 45,000 annually, and non-f Mal accidents producing an annual loss of 200.000,000 working days. Estimating the value to society of each man kiD<Ml at $5,000, and $2 as an average daily wage of the non-fatally injured. 'Jb* economic annual loss sustained by tbe nation amounts to approximately SW<L. 000,000. This is the amount which. 3k some way or other, must be charged to the production cost in the various industries where the accidents oo* curred.