The Gazette

BELL MEN CUT DOWN MISHAPS

Training Results in Million Man-Hours Without Accident

One of the best records in the country for manual work without a loss-of-time accident has been attained by the plant department in the Cleveland West Division of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company. With a total force of 686, the department has accomplished more than one million man-hours of work without an accident that kept the victim off the job, according to R. P. Bunyan, general plant manager of the company's northeast Ohio.

"From November 1, 1928, to May 23 of this year, there were 1,096,888 man-hours without a serious, or loss-of-time accident, in the Cleveland West Division," said Mr. Bunyan.

"Much of the credit goes to the men and their superiors. More than 75 per cent of them have taken the company's first aid and safety course and they have been closely adhering to the principles which they have learned. The course started a short time before November 1, the date on which the present no-accident record began. Similar courses are being taken by the plant employees throughout our territory in Ohio."

The National Safety News of the National Safety Council recently stated that 400,000 man-hours without a loss-of-time accident was an accomplishment worthy of note. The Ohio Bell men have nearly tripled that mark.

The men who made this record are those telephone employees whose work consists of climbing poles, going down manholes, and similar construction and repair activities.