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1901-1949
1901 Deere implements voluntary workers’ compensation program fully ten years before the first U.S. Workers’ Compensation statutes.
1920 Deere designs and builds its own cloth-screen filtering system to clean exhaust from plow-grinding operations.
1936 First foundry equipped with air pollution controlled molding equipment.
1938 Product safety committee formed; warning decals placed on corn pickers; shielding for power take-offs introduced.
1940 Power take-off shields installed on tractors and made available in retrofit programs for tractors produced after 1932.
1947 Corporate industrial safety department established.
1949 First boiler equipped with a device to control fly-ash emission at Waterloo Tractor Works. Planter Works, Moline, Illinois, installs a wetcap to control cupola emissions.
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