Original Title/Caption: “Industrial safety. Accident prevention. This shop worker is ‘asking for it.’ The use of a makeshift ‘ladder’ like this is always hazardous--doubly so when heavy, bulky, or unwieldy objects are being put in place or removed.”
Description: In this black and white photograph, one sees the legs and feet of a person who has climbed atop a stack of crates and boxes to reach the top of a set of shelves. This photograph was taken in June 1942 by Howard Liberman.
Source:
Liberman, Howard, photographer. “Industrial safety. Accident prevention. This shop worker is ‘asking for it.’ The use of a makeshift ‘ladder’ like this is always hazardous--doubly so when heavy, bulky, or unwieldy objects are being put in place or removed.” Photograph, 1942. From Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Call number LC-USE6- D-005565. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b03955 (accessed March 20, 2007).
Historical discussion: The original title/caption of this photograph explained that this worker was “asking for it,” emphasizing that the worker’s own carelessness would cause injury.
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