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1883, railroad workers form Railroad Trainmen group, wanting accident and sickness benefits and burial for their workers. They do this out of difficulty getting insurance due to high accident and death rate with railroad work. Still shots of rail workers, say that it is easy for those missing fingers to get work since it signifies that those workers are experienced working with trains. Description of limbs being lost while coupling cars together. Ads in Trainmen’s Journal for artificial limbs and prosthetic appendages for workers who have been in accidents.