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for more hospital accommodations. If we could have a 100 per cent effective safety program, we wouldn't need so many hospital beds.”
The PMA chairman .asks farmers , to make Safety Week the occasion to "clean up and patch up.” He also, calls the attention of Rappahannock County's rural residents to these facts released by the National. Safety \ Council. "" At the present rate, accidents will” claim 15^000* farm residents through death and another 1,300,000 by injury. Disaster is grimly certain unless farm folks adopt Safety on the 1 Farm; - - ^
6,000 farm residents will die and 220,000 suffer injuries the next year from motor vehicles accidents unless farm operators handle their carsand trucks the Safe way.
Falls, burns, poisoning and other unnecessary accidents in farm homes claim the lives of 4,000 /arm residents each year. Doing simple things the Safe way would spare these lives. Fatal or disabling farm work accidents in 1951, according to official figures, involved 424,550 persons and the financial cost, based on workmen’s compensation insurance experience for hired farm labor, amounted to $177,400,000. Mr. Barksdale pointed to the fact that the American farmer this year has been asked for the greatest total
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