Yeah, this was definitely pre-OSHA days. In the 1890’s it was estimated that one in every eleven steel workers would end up killed or maimed on the job. Don’t ask what they were paid. Even adjusting for inflation it makes me sick.
Happily though, the world had Dr. Andras Kilmer’s patent swamp root elixir to restore health and vigor to the sick and lame.
(LOL)