Pittsburgh Survey

The Pittsburgh Survey disclosed the frequency and severity of industrial injuries in the United States and shocked both manag ent and society. These investigations counted more than 500 on-the-job deaths and 500 serious and disabling injuries in one year in Pittsburgh County (Eastman, 1910). 

Eastman, C. 1910. Work-Accidents and the Law. Pittsburgh survey, vol. 2. New York Russell Sage Foundation Pubhcations. 

The Pittsburgh Survey (1907-1908) was a 12-month study in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. It was found that there were 526 occupational fatalities in one year. Survivors and the workers themselves were forced to carry the cost of losses. When the breadwinners were gone, there was no further compensation of any kind. Employer incentives to reduce safety and health risks for workers were called for. 

The Pittsburgh Survey is credited with instigating the formation of a safety establishment and the advent of organized safety programs within U.S. industry. PubUshed in 1907, the survey findings set off a chain reaction of legislation and industry development ... 

Pittsburgh survey conducted by Russell Sage Foundation. 

Cohen, Steven. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Social Survey Movement A Sociological Road Not Taken. In The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940, edited by Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, 245-68. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1991. 

Annual Proceedings of the Safety Seminars, Dept, of Defense, Explosive Safety Board, Washington, D.C. International symposia on explosives and closely related subjects are excellent sources of information, ie, international symposia on detonation symposia on combustion symposia on chemical problems connected with the stabiUty of explosives international pyrotechnics seminars symposia on compatibiUty of plastics and other materials with explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics, and processing of explosives, propellants, and ingredients and symposia on explosives and pyrotechnics Mineral Industy Surveys, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. Periodic pubhcations dedicated primarily to explosive studies in Propellants and Explosives Journal of Ha yardous Materials, and apparent consumption of industrial explosives and blasting agents in the United States. 

Mossbauer Studies of Tektites. Several groups have obtained Mbss-bauer spectra of tektites. A. Thorpe and F. Senftle of Howard University and the U. S. Geological Survey have cooperated with J. Spijkerman of the National Bureau of Standards. T. Kohman and his group at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh have recently taken up this work also. The present study made at Woodstock College, however, appears to be the first published account. 

Perlee, H. E., and Christos, T., Summary of Literature Survey of Hypergolic Ignition Spike Phenomena, Phase I Final Report, United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 8 to December 31, 1965. 

Shultz, C.H., 1999, The geology of Pennsylvania Harrisburg - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Geological Survey -Pittsburgh Geological Society, 888 p. 

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Annual Survey Reports, 1975-91 (Washington, DC PM A, 1976-91). 

S. Mazdiyasni, D. B. Miracle Survey of Eutectic Systems as Potential Intermetallic Matrix Composites for High Temperature Application. In D. L. Anton, P. L. Martin, D. B. Miracle et al. Intermetallic Matrix Composites. MRS, Pittsburgh (1990) 155-162. 

Lesley, J.P. (1892). A Summary Description of the Geology of Pennsylvania, Vol. H. Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. 

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