CHAPTER XVIII. HAZARDS. The general hazards of constructional faults, heating, lighting and exposures, obtain in all classes of risks. The following special risks have, in addition to the general hazards, the specific hazards as noted: ACID WORKS.-Hot gas conveyors, empty nitrate of soda bags. ALCOHOL DISTILLERIES.-Alcohol fumes. BLEACHERIES AND DYE WORKS.-Singeing, hot or dry rooms, drug rooms, chemicals, roller cleaning. BREWERIES-Heating of kettles, pitching kegs, malt mills, kilns, dust. BRUSH FACTORIES.-Pitching. CELLULOID FACTORIES.—Highly inflammable nature of celluloid and similar compounds, made mostly of gunpowder and camphor. CORDAGE WORKS.—Stock, dust, oil, tarring. COTTON GINS.-Foreign materials passing through gins, striking sparks in the loose lint. CURRYING SHOPS.-Board scrapings. DYEING AND CLEANING.-Usually benzine, naphtha, gasolene or some such volatile liquid used. FERTILIZER WORKS.-Fish scraps, green bone mills, lampblack, nitrate of soda bags, driers. FLOUR MILLS.-Friction of machinery, explosive dust, frictional electricity, heaters, conditioners. FUR HAT FACTORIES.-Dust, alcohol, drying, singeing. FURNITURE, CABINET, WAGON, CARRIAGE, CASKET FACTORIES.-Dust, conveyors, vault, kilns, caul boxes, paints, oils, varnishes, dry rooms. GRAIN ELEVATORS.-Shafting supported on bin work, choking in elevator heads, dust from smut and brush machines, corn shellers, uncovered oil cups. METAL WORKERS.—Cupola stacks at roof and feed platform, gases in core ovens, benzine, naphtha for cleaning, lacquers, japans, paints, dry rooms, dust from polishing wheels, oily metal cuttings, oily waste, ovens. OIL CLOTH FACTORIES.-Benzine and naphtha, coating room, dry room, paints, oils. PAPER MILLS.-Rag cutters, dusters, drying, straw, low grade rags. PORK PACKERS.-Barrel stoves, lard rendering, smoke house. PRINTING; LITHOGRAPHING.-Benzine, "broke," lampblack, waste paper. PULP MILLS.-Chippers, digesters. ROPE WORKS.-Tarring, dust, raw stock. RUBBER WORKS.—Mixing and making rooms, vulcanizers, driers, benzine and other volatile liquids and cements, reclaiming, devulcanizers. SHOE FACTORIES.-Cutting block scrapings, dressings, kit lamps, waste chutes, cements and volatile liquids, turpentine. SUGAR REFINERIES.-Char house, kiln, bag storing and drying. SULPHITE PULP MILLS.-Sulphur, digesters. TANNERIES.-Bark mill, dust, fleshings, hair batteries, oil, grease, whitenings, lampblack, lime, drying, varnish and ovens (enameling works). TEXTILE MILLS—Cotton and Woolen.-Openers, pickers, cards, lint, dust, napping lint, dryers, carbonizing, shoddy (woolen mills). VARNISH WORKS.-Boiling and mixing. WOOD WORKERS.-Dust, conveyors, vaults, kilns, dry rooms, caul boxes, waste burners, refuse and waste, sparks from stacks. Boilers Boilers, Nominal Horse Power of.. Bone Black Char Houses Box Chutes Boxed Cornice Boxes, Empty Brackets: Gas Stationary, Gas Swinging, Gas Brick Arched Roof Brick Cornice Bridge Trusses Bright Tin Brushes B. & S. Wire Gauge, Table.. Burners, Pyrites Burners, Sulphur Burning Fluids, Stoves Bus Bar Bus Rod Bus Wire Bushings Cabinets, Oil Calcium Carbide, Storage of.. Camphene Candles Capacity of: Cylindrical Tanks, Rule for Ascertaining Elliptical Tanks, Rules for Ascertaining Rectangular Tanks, Rule for Ascertaining. "Round Tanks," for Each Foot in Depth, Table. Standard Water Tanks, Table, Dimensions and.. Car Barns, Pits in Electric.... Car Houses, Electric Equipment. Car Repair Shops, Pits in Electric.. Car Sheds, Pits in Electric Carbonic Acid Gas Hand Fire Extinguishers. Care of Apparatus, Electric Carrying Capacity of Sewer Pipes, Table.... Carrying Capacity of Wires, Table (Electric Buildings). Cast Iron Cornice Cast Iron Pipes, Table PAGE. 49, 51 27 22 17 167 65 65 65 17 11 36 46 70 188 49 54 54 73 73 73 106 158 66 156 59 180 180 180 180 180 179 78 97 27 95 27 27 ..148, 149 105 177 78 97 147 17 176 |