ESTABLISHMENTS VISITED HAVING AND NOT HAVING SPECIFIED SAFETY DEVICES FOR GUARDING AGAINST ACCIDENT FROM MILL GEARING OR MACHINERY— GEORGIA. 1 Ten operated by electric power, control devices being electric cut-offs or switches; 1 operated by steam power, control device a wire pull which stops engine. 2 Two by electric bell; 1 by telephone. Of one woolen mill it is reported: "The fact that pickers, spinning frames, slubbers, twisters, and spoolers are here safely guarded demonstrates the practicability of doing so." FLORIDA. There were at the time of this investigation, no legal provisions relative to the safeguarding of mill gearing or machinery.1 CONDITIONS FOUND. In only 2 of the 14 establishments visited was there power-driven machinery of a sufficiently dangerous character to require special safeguarding. The following table shows to what extent proper and necessary safeguarding devices had been provided by these 2 establishments: ESTABLISHMENTS VISITED HAVING AND NOT HAVING SPECIFIED SAFETY DEVICES FOR GUARDING AGAINST ACCIDENT FROM MILL GEARING OR MACHINERYFLORIDA. The law here referred to is as in force at time of the investigation, March, 1909. in force Jan. 1, 1912, is given in the appendixes at the end of this volume. 2 Operated by electric power, control device being electric cut-off or switch. 222 1 2 1 2 21 1 The text of the laws LOUISIANA. There was, at the time of this investigation, no legislation in Louisiana requiring machinery safeguarding.1 CONDITIONS FOUND. In 26 of the 29 visited establishments there was power-driven machinery of a sufficiently dangerous character to require safeguarding. The following table shows to what extent proper and necessary safeguarding devices had been provided by these 26 establishments: ESTABLISHMENTS VISITED HAVING AND NOT HAVING SPECIFIED SAFETY DEVICES FOR GUARDING AGAINST ACCIDENT FROM MILL GEARING OR MACHINERY 1 The law here referred to is as in force at the time of this investigation, March, 1909. The text of the laws in force Jan. 1, 1912, is given in the appendixes at the end of this volume. All operated by electric power, control devices being electric cut-offs or switches. By telephone. |