Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 518
lAccidents—34 Dead BOILER and pressure vessel accidents in recent months havetaken a disastrous toll of human life and have destroyed thou-sands of dollars worth of property, despite the constantlyincreasing insistence on safety measures by many individual operators,by the insurance companies, by… … Figure 1. Result of a lap seam failure early in June. Almost all of these accidents were to uninsured boilers and pressurevessels. Many of the explosions might have been prevented by means ofperiodic inspections. In the 34 cases there were 34 deaths and injury to 105 persons.Four other accidents in…
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