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title: U.S. Industry Casualty List
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/axidunce-us-industry-casualty-list-owi/
description: 'Pen cartoon: a posted sign gives ''U.S. Industry Casualty List: Deaths 48,500, Crippled 258,000, Days lost 110,000,000''.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Cartoon caricatures of German, Japanese and Italian figures (swastika armband, buck teeth and glasses, bandaged figure with an 'M' cap), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![U.S. Industry Casualty List, 1941 US poster: Pen cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/axidunce-us-industry-casualty-list-owi.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/axidunce-us-industry-casualty-list-owi.jpg)

# U.S. Industry Casualty List

Pen cartoon: a posted sign gives 'U.S. Industry Casualty List: Deaths 48,500, Crippled 258,000, Days lost 110,000,000', while three bandaged caricatured Axis figures with swastika, rising-sun and 'M' markings carry bundles beneath it. The figures are drawn as gainers from industrial accidents; the figures are presented without a source or period.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
U.S. INDUSTRY
CASUALTY LIST
DEATHS ...... 48,500
CRIPPLED ..... 258,000
DAYS LOST... 110,000,000
M
[signature:] Leo FOR OWI
[imprint:] OWI-1978
```

[← Axidunce cartoon: Safety rules, Exhibit A, he doesn't observe rules](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/axidunce-safety-rules-exhibit-a-1941/) [Axidunce cartoon: Use care in placing ladders →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/axidunce-use-care-placing-ladders-1941/)

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