NUMBER AND PER CENT OF INJURIES OF EACH SPECIFIED CLASS IN MINES AND METALLURGICAL ESTABLISHMENTS, ACCORDING TO REPORTS OF MINE INSPECTORS, 1905 AND 1906.

[Source: Ministerstvo Torgovli i Promyshlennosti. Gorny Departament. Statistika neschastnykh sluchaev s rabochimi, 1905, 1906.]

All other injuries...

Grand total.

1906.

Burns and scalds:

One part of body (except

29, 479 100.00 a2, 511 a100. 00 a32, 522 a100.00 1,186 100.00 a1,049 @100. 00 569, 588 6100.00

1.27 21 1.77

51

4. 86 924 1.33

85.58 420.511 63.07 865 72.93

880

83.89 40,839 58.69

98

15

254 .78

30

05

565

.42

1

.10

137

.20

.03

15 1.27

a This total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report. Including a duplication of 557 injuries to persons who received injuries of more than one kind. This total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report.

NUMBER AND PER CENT OF INJURIES OF EACH SPECIFIED CLASS IN MINES AND METALLURGICAL ESTABLISHMENTS, ACCORDING TO REPORTS OF MINE INSPECTORS, 1905 AND 1906-Concluded.

Grand total.. 631,296 100.00 3,186 100.00 635, 312 100.00 1,563 100.00 61,011 100.00 c76, 629 6100.00

a Less than one-hundredth of 1 per cent.

The total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report. c Including 4,205 injuries the nature of which is not reported. This total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report.

RESULTS OF ACCIDENTS.-Fatal results of accidents are proportionately more frequent in the mining establishments than in manufacturing, the proportion of fatal accidents in mines in 1906 being 0.82 per cent as against 0.62 per cent in manufactures. On the other hand, the cases of permanent disability are not so frequent, as only 8.21 per cent resulted in permanent disability as against 17.12 per cent in the manufactures.

The number and per cent of accidents resulting in temporary disability, permanent disability, and death are shown in the table following:

RESULTS OF ACCIDENTS IN MINES AND METALLURGICAL ESTABLISHMENTS, ACCORDING TO REPORTS OF MINE INSPECTORS, BY INDUSTRIES, 1905 AND 1906. [Source: Ministerstvo Torgovli i Promyshlennosti. Gorny Departament. Statistika neschastnykh sluchaev s rabochimi, 1905, 1906.]

a This total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report. b Data from the Caucasus mining district, including mainly oil wells, were not classified by branch of industry.

CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS.-The causation of accidents in mines and metallurgical establishments, as shown in the following tables for 1905 and 1906, is very much different from that in manufacturing establishments. Cave-ins, collapse of structures, and falling objects are responsible for over one-fourth of all the accidents reported, loading and unloading for nearly one-fifth, and transportation by rail for about one-eighth, so that these three classes alone claim from 55 to 60 per cent of the accidents. While in manufacturing establishments accidents due to machinery or dangerous substances represent nearly two-fifths of all accidents, in mines and metallurgical establishments. these causes are comparatively unimportant, claiming in 1906 only 18.8 per cent. Hand implements in manufactories caused 15 per cent, and in mines and metallurgical establishments only 8.85 per cent of the total number of accidents. As accidents due to collapse of structures, falls, loading, and railroad transportation are likely to be more severe, this difference in causation carries with it a correspondingly greater gravity than injuries in manufacturing establishments. Especially is this true of the coal mines, where the three causes specified were responsible in 1906 for nearly three-fourths of all accidents.

CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS IN MINES AND METALLURGICAL ESTABLISHMENTS, ACCORDING TO REPORTS OF MINE INSPECTORS, 1905 AND 1906.

[Source: Ministerstvo Torgovli i Promyshlennosti. Gorny Departament. Statistika neschastnykh sluchaev s rabochimi, 1905, 1906.]

Total...

a31,226 100.00 a 3, 143a100.00 434, 697 100.00 1,599 100.00 45, 242 a75, 907 @100.00

a This total is not the correct sum of the items; the figures are given as shown in the original report.

ACCIDENTS TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

The reports of the Russian railways contain data of accident statistics for over 20 years, and they show a very low accident rate. Thus in 1906, according to these reports, there were 11,784 accidents, of which 814 were fatal, the number of employees being 825,315, which gives an accident rate of only 14.28 per 1,000 employees.

It

seems certain that only the grave injuries are reported, as is shown by the fact that the fatal accidents constituted nearly 7 per cent of the total number of accidents reported. But another more accurate source gives a very much larger number of accidents. This is the series of annual reports of the medical service of the Russian railways, from which the following tables were compiled for 1902 to 1907. The number of accidents is over seven times as large as that reported by the railroad administrations, and the rate has rapidly increased from 55 per thousand in 1902 to 102 per thousand in 1907. NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS TO EMPLOYEES IN RAILWAY SERVICE, 1902 TO 1907. [Source: Ministerstvo Putei Soobshehenia. Upravlenie zheleznykh dorog. Otchiot o vrachebno-sanitarnom sostoianii zheleznykh dorog 1902-1907.]

Number of accidents.

Year.

In train service.

Outside of train service.

Total.

Light. Severe. Fatal. Total. Light. Severe. Fatal. Total. Light. Severe. Fatal. Total.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS, AND ACCIDENT RATE PER 1,000 IN RAILWAY SERVICE, 1902 TO 1907.

[Source: Ministerstvo Putei Soobshchenia. Upravlenie zheleznykh dorog. Otchiot o vrachebno-sanitarnom sostoianii zheleznykh dorog 1902-1907.]

TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS.-It is possible to combine the statistical data for manufacturing industry, mining and metallurgical industry, and railroads, and to obtain approximately the total number of industrial accidents in Russia, not including agriculture or commercial establishments. In the following table this has been done for 1906. The accidents included comprise those recorded by the factory inspectors, mine inspectors, and the railroad service. The statement is not altogether complete, for many smaller establishments and many government manufacturing establishments, not