Digest of recent foreign statistical publications: Reports on strikes and lockouts... Austria, 1908.. Resolutions of the Sixth Delegates' Meeting of the International Association Page. for Labor Legislation...... 182-193 Report of Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases.. 194-202 203-247 203-209 209-215 215-220 221-231 231-239 239-242 242-247 248-289 France, 1908.. Germany, 1908... Great Britain, 1908 and 1909.. Netherlands, 1907 and 1908. Sweden, 1908.. Decisions of courts affecting labor: Decisions under statute law................ 249, 250 Alien contract laborers-deportation-evidence (Ex parte George)... 248, 249 Employers' liability-departments of labor-construction of statute 251-273 273-275 276-278 279,280 Employers' liability-fellow-servant law-nature of liability—injuries causing death-survival of right of action-damages (Beeler v. Butte & London Copper Development Co.)........... Employers' liability-mine regulations shot firers construction of statute (Hougland et al. v. Avery Coal & Mining Co.)........... 278, 279 Employers' liability-notice-superintendence construction of statute (Smith v. Milliken Bros.)..................... Employers' liability-railroad companies street railways-construction of statute (Conover v. Public Service Railway Co.)...... 281 Employers' liability-railroads Federal statute-jurisdiction of State and Federal courts-interstate commerce-construction of statute (Colasurdo v. Central Railroad of New Jersey)....... Hours of labor of employees on railroads-Federal statute-time on duty (United States v. Illinois Central Railroad Co.).... Mine regulations-inspection-good faith as defense against liability for injury (Aetitus v. Spring Valley Coal Co.).... Picketing-police power-municipal regulations (Ex parte Williams). 288, 289 Decisions under common law..... Boycott-injunction-labor organizations as parties-interference 281-285 285 286-288 289-307 289-291 Employer and employee-injury to third person by employee-lia- 296-299 299-301 Employers' liability-safe place to work-act of foreman (Campbell Labor organizations-identity-transfer of affiliation-effect on rights 301, 302 302-307 OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR. No. 92. WASHINGTON. January, 1911. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS AND LOSS OF EARNING POWER: BY HENRY J. HARRIS, PH. D. SUMMARY. In order to indicate the lines on which measures for the prevention of industrial accidents and for the medical treatment of injured workmen may be directed, the Imperial Insurance Office of Germany makes a practice of publishing, at 10-year intervals, special studies of the industrial accidents compensated under the national accident insurance system for workmen. Some of the facts brought out by the study of the industrial accidents compensated in the year 1907 may be briefly summarized as follows: The information relates only to serious industrial accidentsnamely, those resulting either in disability lasting longer than 13 weeks or in death-which were compensated in the year 1907. The much larger number of accidents causing disability of shorter duration is not included. Expressed in terms of workmen who had been employed 300 days in the year, the number of persons included in this study was 8,600,000. About one workman out of every 100 received injuries causing serious disability or death, the average rate being 9.44 per 1,000 fulltime workmen. In the period 1897 to 1907 there has been A decrease in the rate for accidents causing death. A decrease in the rate for accidents causing total permanent disability. A decrease in the rate for accidents causing partial permanent disability. A marked increase in the rate for accidents causing temporary disability lasting longer than 13 weeks. Workmen employed in teaming, hauling, etc., have the highest accident rate; workmen engaged in the tobacco industry have the lowest. Arranged in order, the highest coming first, the following 10 industry groups show the highest accident rates: Teaming and hauling, flour milling, mining, quarrying, woodworking, brewing, engineering construction, inland navigation, iron and steel, and express and storage. |