Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their FutureCampbell, Helen
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Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen
Women -- Employment -- United States
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent, or other
person having charge of such manufacturing establishment, or of any
floor or part thereof, to report in writing to the Factory Inspector all
accidents or injury done to any person in such factory, within
forty-eight hours of the time of the accident, stating as fully as
possible the extent and cause of such injury, and the place where the
injured person has been sent, with such other information relative
thereto as may be required by the Factory Inspector. The Factory
Inspector or Assistant Factory Inspector and Deputy Factory Inspectors
under the supervision of the Factory Inspector, are hereby authorized
and empowered to fully investigate the causes of such accidents, and to
require such precautions to be taken as will in their judgment prevent
the recurrence of similar accidents.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the owner of any manufacturing
establishment, or his agents, superintendent, or other person in charge
of the same, to furnish and supply, or cause to be furnished and
supplied therein, in the discretion of the Factory Inspector, or of the
Assistant Factory Inspector, or of a Deputy Factory Inspector, unless
disapproved by the Factory Inspector, where machinery is used,
belt-shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances, for the purpose of
throwing on or off belts or pulleys; and wherever possible machinery
therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all vats, pans, saws,
planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws, and machinery of
every description therein shall be properly guarded, and no person shall
remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or attached to any
planer, saw, belting, shafting or other machinery, or around any vat or
pan, while the same is in use, unless for the purpose of immediately
making repairs thereto, and all such safeguards shall be promptly
replaced. By attaching thereto a notice to that effect, the use of any
machinery may be prohibited by the Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory
Inspector, or by a Deputy Factory Inspector, unless such notice is
disapproved by the Factory Inspector, should such machinery be regarded
as dangerous. Such notice must be signed by the Inspector who issues it,
and shall only be removed after the required safeguards are provided,
and the unsafe or dangerous machine shall not be used in the mean time.
Exhaust fans of sufficient power shall be provided for the purpose of
carrying off dust from emery wheels and grindstones, and dust-creating
machinery therein. No person under eighteen years of age and no woman
under twenty-one years of age shall be allowed to clean machinery while
in motion.
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