be in the hands of the Jury of Awards by September 1st of the same year. After tabulation by a statistical expert they are carefully studied by each member and the awards made. The awards made by the Committee in 1914 were as follows: Gold Medal - The Boston Elevated Railway Co., Boston, Mass. Silver Replica - Russell Adam Sears, General Attorney, Boston Elevated Railway Co., Boston, Mass. Bronze Replica - Henry Vinton Neal, Shop Employe, Boston Elevated Railway Co., Boston, Mass. Honorable Mention Public Service Railway Co., Newark, N. J. Special Favorable Mention - Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co., Akron, Ohio. 1915 AWARDS Conditions of the Competition The competition shall be for the year ending June 30th, and every company entering the competition shall file with The American Museum of Safety by the first day of October next after the close of the year the data upon which it founds its claim to the award. Every competing company shall include data covering all lines comprising the entire system of which it is a part, without regard to technical ownership. The test ordinarily would be operation under the jurisdiction of a single president. Such data shall include: 1. A report of all casualties to passengers, employes and others in the form shown herewith. The terms used in this form are to be understood as follows: A "train mile" is a mile made by a train whether composed of one or more cars. A "car mile" is a mile made by a car whether operated singly or as a part of a train of two or more cars. The number of employes for computing the rate per 1,000 in industrial accidents is determined by dividing the aggregate days worked by all employes in industrial service, such as track men, line men, shop mẹn, power house and sub-station men, freight handlers, and others not actually engaged in the operation of cars, by the number of working days in the period covered by the report. Train accidents include all casualties resulting from collisions with other cars or trains, derailments, and miscellaneous accidents to trains. Other than train accidents include all casualties resulting from accidents to roadway or bridges not causing derailments, as, for instance, fires, floods, land-slides, explosions, etc.; also all resulting from collisions with vehicles, platform accidents, and other accidents connected with the actual operation of cars not including industrial accidents. Industrial accidents include all accidents not involving train operation, but occurring to employes of the company on or about railway premises. Instances are: accidents occurring to employes while working on tracks, bridges or other structures, at stations, in or about power houses, sub-stations, shops, barns, transmission and distribution lines. Railway premises. include highways and other public property occupied under franchise rights. Passengers include passengers on passenger, freight and mixed trains or cars, and persons carried under agreement or contract, such as employes of express companies, postal employes, etc. Employes include employes of the company competing, but not the employes of other companies carried under agreement or contract. Other persons not trespassing include all persons other than passengers, employes and trespassers. Killed: Accidents to persons resulting in immediate death or in death within 24 hours from the time the accident occurred should be reported in columns headed "Killed." Injured: All other accidents to persons, including those resulting in death of the person injured after interval of more than 24 hours from the time the accident occurred, should be reported in the column headed "Injured." Trivial accidents need not be reported. Accidents to employes shall be regarded as trivial if they result in injuries so slight as not to prevent the employe injured from performing his accustomed service for more than three days, in the aggregate, during the ten days immediately following the accident. Injuries to passengers and other persons that do not prevent the injured person from following his customary vocation for more than one day shall be regarded as trivial. 2. A report of the various measures taken during the year covered by the report to conserve safety and health, including, among others, the following: Measures to Prevent Accidents (a) Block signals. (b) Protective devices at railroad crossings. Protective devices at other points of danger. (f) Safety devices in cars, shops, power houses, sub-stations, and in connection with roadway and transmission and distribution systems. (g) The separation of grades, the reduction of curves, and the elimination of obstructions to view. (h) The observance of high standards with regard to the inspection, maintenance and improvement of rolling stock, roadway, transmission and distribution systems. (i) Standards of employment, physical and mental. (j) Periodical examination of employes, physical and mental. (k) Rules and discipline. (1) Educational measures affecting the public, including school children. (m) Educational, protective and co-operative measures by and through employes. Measures to Alleviate Effects of Accidents (a) First aid to the injured, including instruction and training of employes, and first aid equipment. (b) Emergency and other hospitals. Measures to Promote Health (a) Attention to lighting, ventilation, cleanliness, disinfection, pure water, sanitary conveniences, and other factors affecting the health of passengers. (b) Attention to lighting, ventilation, cleanliness, disinfection, pure water, sanitary conveniences, and other factors affecting the health and welfare of employes. (c) Instruction of employes in matters of hygiene and sanitation. 3. A report showing the following facts in connection with the operations of the company for the year: (a) The single track mileage of all lines operated during the year. (b) The division of the track mileage into surface, elevated and subway lines respectively; also into urban, suburban and interurban lines respectively; showing also what part of the mileage is on private right of way. (c) Total number of passengers carried. (d) The number of revenue passengers carried, showing separately the number carried on surface lines. (e) The number of car miles run, showing separately the car miles run on surface lines. (f) The gross earnings per mile of single track in each class of service. (g) The amounts of earnings, both the amount set aside and that actually paid, on account of accidents occurring dur ing the year, together with the ratio of such amounts to gross earnings. (h) The monthly average number of employes. (i) Total number of passenger cars in use. (j) Total number of freight cars in use. (k) Total number of motor cars in use. (1) Density of population in the territory operated in. (m) The especial difficulties, if any, physical, legal and other, affecting the safety of operation. 4. A report of all other facts regarded by the company as materially bearing upon the record for conservation of safety and health made during the year. Data for other years may be given under this heading. The Committee on Award may ask for any additional data. |