Content note: Painted rows of grave crosses hung with workers' tools and protective gear. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Follow Safety Rules!
Industrial safety poster: rows of white grave crosses in a dark field, each hung with a work glove, goggles, hard hat, wrench, pick or saw, above a statistic that more American workers were killed and wounded in industrial accidents in a year than all casualties from bombs in Britain in two years of war. The graveyard image is a fear-appeal; the single comparison is offered without a source on the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-783 (NAID 514271).
Text on the object
More American workers were killed and wounded in industrial accidents last year than all the casualties from bombs in Britain in two years of war FOLLOW SAFETY RULES! WAR PRODUCTION BOARD War Production Drive Headquarters WASHINGTON, D. C. A-24 [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1942-O-491592]
