Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Facts as to Accidents. [ARTICLE]

Facts as to Accidents.

One of the most Important tables ever compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission has been supplied by Secretary Moseley to Senator Tillman, who procured its printing as a public document. It is a list of collisions and derailments where the emnumber of hours and a list of personal Injuries to employes, due to having been at work excessively long. j These are railroad reports and not the results of investigations by the commission, and they do not include personal injuries that had no obvious connection with the condition of the employe. The facts disclosed by this tabulation are startling. ============ * Eight railroad men were killed and thirteen injured' as the result of accidents caused by overwork. In ope case a man who had been on duty thirtytwo hours was sent out flagging and went to; sleep on the track. In nine other cases in this list of personal injuries men had been at. work continuously for twenty hours or more. In collisions and derailments due to lack of sleep or exceptional fatigue thirty-five persons were killed and 147 Injured. In one ease the man had. been at work forty-eight hours. In nine cases men had been at work twenty-four hours or more—one was forty-seven and a half hours at work" and another was thirty-eight—and In several other instances men had been at work more than twenty hours.—Philadelphia Record.