EXPERIENCE OF SIX EMPLOYERS, ONE FROM EACH INDUSTRY-FIRST SIX MONTHS OF OPERATION UNDER MICHIGAN LAW. 0.18927 0.00038 $0.96 $0.42 $4.12 $2.11 $6.23 $23,620.58 1 Total amount of compensation paid not given. Average percentage nonfatal accidents to number of employees. Average cost of medical and hospital attention per employee.. Average cost of medical attention total number of accidents. Average cost per man injured of medical and hospital attention and compensation.... Total cost of compensation and medical and hospital attention of 3,757 accidents to 6 employers..... OHIO. [As of Nov. 15, 1913.] Number of risks..... Number of workmen covered. Number of accidents reported.. Number of fatal cases... Number entitled to compensation. Number leaving dependents: Cases passed on.. Disallowed.... Dismissed and dependency in the remaining 29 cases.. Number of cases of permanent total disability. Number losing hands.. Number losing arms.. Number losing feet.. Number losing legs.. Average length of disability (cases only where compensation award) Number of appeals to court... Total amount of compensation paid (includes medical, hospital, funeral, etc., also deferred awards and unsettled claims). Total paid in death cases.. 8 weeks. 1, 128 1 $444, 837. 23 $76, 338. 97 $2,790.00 $5, 367.06 0 $8.94 Total number whose average wage exceeded $18.. 963 Average length of time between accident and commencement of weekly payments, 29 days. (Application for award not to be made until two weeks after the occurrence of the injury.) WASHINGTON. [Year from Oct. 1, 1912, to Oct. 1, 1913.] Number eligible? All extra hazardous employments. Number of accidents (nonfatal)? 12,380 excluding fatal and trivial cases. Number of fatal cases? Requiring pension, 173; requiring no pension, 156. Number losing hands? 12. Number losing arms? 13. Number losing feet? 8. Number losing legs? 10 plus 10 amputated thighs. Average length of disability? 275 days excluding Sundays. Total amount of compensation paid? $1,377,271.09 (all awards). Total paid in death cases? $453, 302.68. Total paid for lost hands? $13,937.50. Total paid for lost arms? $20,025. Total paid for lost feet? $10,225. Total paid for lost legs? $30,000. Average amount paid weekly? $1.35 per day for temporary total disability. (Average daily wage of injured persons, $3.05.) Temporary total disabilities classified according to weeks duration, from Oct. 1, 1912, to Oct. 1, 1913. NO. 8. ITINERARY OF COMMISSION AND NAMES OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS, EMPLOYERS, AND LABOR REPRESENTATIVES. Beginning in the last week of July, the inquiry was conducted without intermission until toward the end of December. Messrs. Phillips, Mitchell, and Lord, representing the commission, held its first series of conferences in Boston. On August 4 a day was spent with the Massachusetts industrial accident board, the full State commission being present, viz, James B. Carroll, chairman; Robert E. Grandfield, secretary; and Dudley M. Holman, David T. Dickinson, Edward F. McSweeney, and Joseph A. Parks. In Boston the commission members also conferred with Mathias J. Nesdale, business agent of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees, and with a committee delegated by the Boston Central Labor Union for the purpose, consisting of Henry Sterling, chairman of the State Labor Federation's legislative committee; Arthur M. Huddell, president of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers' Union of Boston; Louis R. Sullivan, of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Organization, and A. C. Langlois, of the Metal Polishers and Buffers' Union. On August 11 the next conference was held at the office of the Michigan industrial accident board at Lansing. Besides Messrs. Phillips, Mitchell, and Lord, of the commission, the participants in the proceedings were John E. Kinnane, chairman, and Ora E. Reaves, member of the board; John T. Winship, commissioner of insurance; and Robert K. Orr, assistant to the commissioner and manager of the accident fund; and J. M. Eaton, director of the accident prevention and relief organization of the Cadillac Motor Car Co., while among the representatives of labor were Claude O. Taylor, president, and Homer R. Waterman, secretary, of the State Federation of Labor; and Joseph Smith, Michigan district president of the Miners' Union; also E. Č. Shields, attorney; and James Cunningham, labor commissioner. The next morning, August 12, the three members of the commission met in Detroit, J. M. Eaton, of the Cadillac Motor Car Co., and Leslie B. Robertson, general counsel for the Ford Motor Co., who explained in detail the operation of the compensation act in respect to the two plants which they represented. In the afternoon a conference was held at the headquarters of the Federation of Labor, the following trade-union officials being present: Harry Colwell, business agent, and Guy Smith, national officer, of the Carpenters and Joiners' Union; J. E. McGlory and Samuel Tobin, Structural Iron Workers; Edward Francis, of the Building Trades Council; Henry Kummerfeld, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor; Stanley Anderson, president, and William Stitson, of the Detroit local union of the Street Railway Employees; Garrett F. Burns, of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees; Frank X. Martel, of the Typographical Union; John Gannon, of the Brewers' Association; 213 Messrs. Sauter, of the Beer Bottlers, and H. L. Hunt, of the Electrical Linemen, and several others whose names could not be obtained. In the evening during a meeting at which insurance questions involved in compensation were discussed the following persons were present: F. A. Brown, of the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation; Frank Eaman, of Bowen, Douglass, Eaman & Barbour; C. M. Young, William M. Brown, and Floyd N. Dull, special agents of the Travelers Insurance Co.; Fred L. Witmire, attorney of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation; T. Cotter, of the London Guarantee & Accident Co.; Ora E. Reaves, member of the industrial accident board, of Lansing; F. S. Deneen, engineer the Chalmers Motor Co.; George J. Lieber, agency supervisor, Olen K. Underwood, investigator, and Eugene C. Marthwet, of the Aetna Life Insurance Co.; and Austin J. Spaulding, attorney for the Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland. The following morning, August 13, the insurance features of the Michigan act were further stated at conferences held at the offices of the Travelers Insurance Co. and the Aetna Life Insurance Co., those participating being Messrs. Hall, Fred L. Van Deveer, attorney Travelers Insurance Co.; George J. Lieber, agency supervisor, and Olen K. Underwood, investigator, Aetna Life Insurance Co.; Eugene C. Marthwet and J. Giebel, insurance representatives; and Ora E. Reaves, of the Michigan Industrial Accident Board. On August 14 at the Builders and Trades' Exchange in Detroit the operation of the law as regards contractors and subcontractors was discussed with R. K. Logan, president the State Builders' Association of Michigan. An interview was also had with Elmer H. Dearth, general manager of the Michigan Workmen's Mutual Insurance Co. of Detroit. In the afternoon at the Fellowcraft Club a conference was had with A. A. Templeton, of the Morgan & Wright Co.; H. W. Hoyt, of the Great Lakes Engineering Works; Robert McFate, of the Vinton Co.; R. K. Logan, president the State Builders' Association, of Saginaw, Mich.; John J. Whirl, secretary of the Employers' Association of Detroit; and Frank P. Johnston, vice president the Detroit Screw Works. On August 15, in Columbus, Ohio, a meeting was had with Wallace D. Yaple, chairman of the Industrial Commission of Ohio and commissioner of the State board of arbitration; and William C. Archer, secretary of the industrial commission. In the afternoon, at his office in Columbus, Opha Moore, secretary of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, presented his views as to the operation of the Ohio law. On August 16, in Cleveland, a conference was held with S. W. Tener, manager accident and pension department of the American Steel & Wire Co.; Edward J. Hobday, secretary Cleveland Industrial Association; and Munson A. Havens, secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. On August 18 meetings followed in Cleveland with P. Hassenpflue, president of the Cleveland Federation of Labor; C. A. Roberts, secretary of the Employers' Association; William B. Stewart, attorney; Frank Ansell, assistant treasurer, H. P. Bingham, of the Bolt & Nut Co.; and Charles V. Lavan, of the State board of awards. The following day Messrs. Phillips, Lord, and Mitchell had interviews in Chicago with Glen W. Traer, president of the Coal Operators' Liability Insurance Co.; J. C. Adderley, representing the Millers' Mutual and Printers' Mutual Casualty Insurance Cos.; F. J. Dammann, attorney for the Maryland Casualty Co.; John Fitzpatrick, president the Chicago Federation of Labor; and R. W. Campbell, chairman, and R. J. Young, secretary, of the safety committee, the Illinois Steel Co. On August 21 the methods of its work were studied at the State capitol, Madison, Wis., with the industrial commission, C. H. Crownhart, chairman. August 22 conferences were had at Milwaukee with Frank J. Weber, corresponding secretary of the Federation of Trades Organizations and general organizer of the State Federation of Labor; John W. Mapel, of the Foster & Vogel Leather Co.; F. P. Blumenfeld, president, William G. Bruce, secretary, and Robert L. Frost, assistant secretary, of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Association; W. J. Fairbairn, secretary of the Metal Trades Employers' Association; A. T. Van Scoy, of the International Harvester Co.; Eltinge Elmore, retired; E. J. Kearney, secretary-treasurer of the Kearney & Trecker Co.; and S. M. Cantrovitz, president-treasurer of the Western Rawhide & Belting Co. On October 2 the commission interviewed Gen. Lewis T. Bryant, commissioner of labor, and William E. Stubbs, secretary of the New Jersey employers' liability commission, at Trenton, in regard to the operation of the compensation act of that State. Beginning November 18, Messrs. Phillips and Mitchell had conferences in Seattle, Wash., with Charles R. Case, president of the Washington Federation of Labor at the time the compensation law was enacted in that State; F. Dabney, of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co., of Seattle; C. W. Miles, manager the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association, of Tacoma; and Hamilton Higday, former State industrial insurance commissioner. Edward F. McSweeney, member of the Massachusetts industrial accident board, who was authorized by the governor to accompany the commission on its western trip, was also present. On the following day, at the New Richmond Hotel, Seattle, a trade-union view of compensation in California was given by Paul Scharrenberg, secretary-treasurer of the California State Federation of Labor, appointed to meet the commission by the California delegation attending the convention of the American Federation of Labor, then in session at Seattle. On November 20, in Olympia, at the office of the industrial insurance commission of Washington, a conference was had with the following members: John H. Wallace; F. W. Hinsdale, chief auditor; Dr. J. W. Mowell, medical adviser; and R. Adair, statistician. On November 26, Messrs. Phillips and Mitchell conferred at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, with Messrs. Fisher, president the Metal Trades Employers' Association; and McGregor, of the Union Iron Works; Mr. Fowler; and Mr. Havens, attorney for the Metal Trades Employers' Association. In the afternoon the commission met A. J. Pillsbury, the chairman, Will J. French, and Harris Weinstock, of the industrial accident board of California. |