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HE number of fatal accidents recorded in the Department as occurring during the first quarter of 1926 was 204, there being 68 in January, 63 in February, and 73 in March. Reports are received from the Workmen's Compensation Boards, the Board of Railway Commissioners, and certain other official sources; from certain large employers of labour; and from the correspondents of the LABOUR GAZETTE. Reports of accidents are also taken from newspapers.

The fatal accidents by industrial groups occurred as follows: transportation and public utilities, 49; mining, non-ferrous smelting and quarrying, 37; manufacturing, 29; construction, 25; logging, 23; agriculture, 21; service, 7; fishing and trapping, 4; trade, 3; unclassified, 6.

The supplementary list of accidents occurring in 1925 contains 22 accidents not previously recorded, which, if added to the total, 1,044, given in the tables in the LABOUR GAZETTE for March, raises the total for 1925 to 1,066. By months these occurred as follows: April, 1; July, 1; August, 2; September,

1; October, 1; November, 7; December, 9. By industrial groups, there were 8 in logging; 8 in transportation and public utilities; 2 in manufacturing; 2 in services; 1 in trade; and 1 unclassified.

Four victims of accidents occurring in 1925 died in 1926, and these four accidents are included in the supplementary list for 1925. One victim, a labourer in a factory in Manitoba, was drawn by a conveyor into machinery, suffering a broken back on September 14, 1925, and died on January 6, 1926. The second was a longshoreman in Vancouver, who fell and twisted his knee on November 11, 1925, dying of septic arthritis on January 13, 1926. The third, a hydrographic surveyor, fell through a hatch on a survey steamer in July, 1925, and died on March 15, 1926, of injuries. The fourth was a firefighter in Manitoba, who was injured while fighting a fire on December 27, 1925, and died of cerebral hemorrhage on January 3, 1926.

The tables showing various details of the accidents follow.