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  • A man with an injured back after lifting a crate of heavy metal bolts; with diagrams of the approved and disapproved methods of lifting. Colour lithograph after K-S.
  • A frayed steel cable with dangerous, jagged projections. Colour lithograph after Pat Keely, 1945.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • A foolish man playing with compressed air apparatus. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • Dangerous situations in factories: six scenes. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • A man wearing a patch over his left eye, as a result of not wearing protective goggles. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • Dangerous situations in factories: six scenes. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • The danger of leaving a hammer on top of a step-ladder. Colour lithograph.
  • A careless lathe operator getting his tie caught in the lathe. Colour lithograph after P. Mendoza, 1943.
  • A man in protective costume, while doing dangerous work, uses a canvas screen to protect others from risk. Colour lithograph after Ludwig, 1950.
  • A graph showing statistics for serious industrial accidents in Austria, 1927-1933: a devil tries to raise the statistics, workers with ropes try to lower them. Colour lithograph, ca. 1934.
  • A hand injured by a wooden stick which is also a pole bearing Germanic lettering and a swastika, comparing Germany in wartime to germs. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz.
  • A spanner and an adjustable spanner, as if in conversation, standing against a brick wall covered with a spider's web. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris, 1945.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • A foolish man playing with compressed air apparatus. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • A hand protected by a guard from getting caught in the cogwheels of a machine. Colour lithograph by H. Kominek, ca. 1957.
  • A finger marked with a "lost property" sign, as a warning of the danger of looms to textile workers. Gouache painting attributed to John Bonella Third, 1949.
  • A workman lifting a metal bar and placing strain on his body. Colour lithograph.
  • The hand of a factory worker clutching his foot because he has knocked it against a heavy cogwheel lying on the ground. Colour lithograph after Arthur G. Mills.
  • Builders on a wooden scaffold let a bucket and some bricks fall down into the street. Colour lithograph after G. Kurt, 192-.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving by Cook.
  • The face of the Japanese emperor represented as a yellow sun issuing red rays. Colour lithograph after H.A. Rothholz, 1945.
  • A hand which has lost two fingers, owing to attempts to clean dangerous machines while they are running. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 1949.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • A house painter on a platform with a waist-high crossbeam to prevent an accidental fall. Colour lithograph by A. Th. Schwarz, ca. 1957.
  • The face of a man wearing goggles, his right goggle cracked. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • The jagged edges of a metal fastening band which has broken around a crate. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden, ca. 1940-1950.
  • A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.
  • An orange sea-horse with a serrated back like a circular saw, against which two medical auxiliaries carry an injured man on a stretcher. Colour lithograph after Pat Keely, 1945.
  • A hand with the middle finger cut off, contrasted with a flower growing in its place from the palm of the hand; advertising care in protecting the fingers. Colour lithograph after B. Chadebec.