Annual Report of the Department of Labor and Industry of the State of Virginia, Volume 19 |
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Accident reported August 22 Average number days Average Pay Increase Band saw Belts and pulleys Blacksmiths Bookkeepers Clerks common carrier condition fair Daily Pay December 14 Decrease from 1914 eight Elevator guarded Emery wheels employee Engineers factory fined not less fire escape foreman Gears hand rails help female help male helpers Highest Lowest Pay Highest Pay Lowest Hours of Labor Increase over 1914 inspections inspector January 25 Joiner line shaft Lowest Pay Pay manager mines Monthly Pay Number motor nine Number OCCUPATION Highest Number of plants OCCUPATION Highest Lowest Overhead belts paid Capital invested Pay Average Pay Pay Increase Decrease Pay Number OCCUPATION Pay Pay Average person rails in three Salesmen Seats semi-monthly Set screws signs in three slate fell Stairs have hand STATEMENT Increase Stenographers thereof three stories Toilets not separate Toilets separate Total hands Total office workers Unguarded machinery Value of product W. H. Carrier weekly
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Page 130 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 131 - That any Contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void...
Page 131 - ... such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee, or the person entitled thereto, on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
Page 123 - A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate filed according to law with a registrar of vital statistics, or other officer charged with the duty of recording births, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the age of such child.
Page 124 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 131 - That in any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where such injury or death resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier...
Page 128 - ... by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars...
Page 129 - When death, whether instantaneous or not, results to such an employee from any injury for which he could have recovered, under the above provisions, had...
Page 135 - ... be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and be confined in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than one year.
Page 126 - State, to which this act applies, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, in any court of competent jurisdiction...