Word: forklift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading causes of injuries are falls and falling objects. Motor vehicles -whether tractors on the farm or forklift trucks within plant gates-account for the largest single category of fatalities. The number of deaths and disabilities caused by work-related illness is harder to gauge because the effects may not appear for years. Lamp-industry workers of the '40s are still dying from berylliosis, a lung disease brought on by exposure to beryllium, a lightweight metal used for coating fluorescent lighting tubes. Similarly, workers who inhale tiny, indestructible fibers of asbestos as they are blown into place for insulation...
...Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters, and around the world the gentler sex is tending bar, driving forklift trucks, giving golf lessons, servicing automobiles and running heavy machinery in factories...
...just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check up on workers who had been out sick more than 25 times a year for three years or more in succession, 500 men indignantly went on strike...
...minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother to get out of their cabs. After the style of U.S. aircraft carriers, Henrion keeps track of his men by dressing foremen in beige overalls, wine handlers in red, mechanics in brown, bottling-machine attendants in blue, and forklift truckers in yellow...
...London's docks, a forklift and three men can accomplish as much work as a 14-man gang once did; dockworkers have accepted forklifts, but still insist that the 14-man gang follow each truck around...