Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-04-15
new LAW PLACES THE RESPONSIBILITY
UPON EMPLOYERS FOR WORKMENS RISKS
Stringent Act of Late Session of Legis-
lature Allows for Damages to be Col
lected by Injured or by Relatives Of
Killed.

One of the new meritorious laws
} which was enacted by the late leg
islaure is that relating to the
liability of employers. The entire
act is published herewith
1t reads as follows
Section l. If in any employment
to which this act applies personal
injury disabling a workman from
his regular service for more than
ten days, or death by accident. aris-
ing out of and in the course of en-
ployment is caused to a workman,
the workman so injured, or in case
OF death, the member of his family,
as hereinafter defined, shall be en-
titled to receive from his employer,
and the said employer shall be
liable to pay, the compensation pro-
vided for in this act; provided that
recovery hereunder shall not be
barred where such employe may
have been guilty OF contributory
negligence where such contributory
negligence is slight and that of the
employer is gross in comparison.
but in such event the compensation
may be diminished in proportion
TO the amount of negligence at
tributable to such employe. and it
shall be conclusiyely presumed that
such employe was not guilty of con
ItrlDutory negligence in any case
where the violation of any statute
enacted for the safety of emploves
contributed to such employees in
Jury; and it shall not be a de-
fense: I'd That the employe either
| expressly or impliedly assumed the
flslrrkef4lhe hazard complained Of;
~ IQT the injury or death was
caused in whole or in part by the
want of ordinary or reasonable care
of a fellow servant. No contract,
rule or regulation shall exempt the
employer from any of the provisions
of the preceding section of this act
| Sec. 2. Employer" includes any
body Of persons corporate Or in
corporate and the legal personal
representative OF a deceased en-
ployer. Workman includes every
person who is engaged in an en-
lployment to which this act applies
whether by way of manual labor
or otherwise, and where his agree
ment is one of service or appren-
ticeship or otherwise. and is ex-
pressed or implied, is oral or in
writing Any reference to work
man who has been injured shall,
where the workman is dead. in
clude reference to his legal per-
sonal representative or to his de-
pendents or other persons to whom
compensation is payable. Depend
entsF means wife father mother.
husband, sister, brother, child or.
grandchild; provided, that they were
wholly or partly dependent upon the
earnings of the workman at the
time of his death.
Sec. 8. This act shall apply to
workmen engaged in manual or me-
chanical labor in the following en-
ployments within this state, each of
which from the nature, condition or
means of prosecution of the work
therein, extraordinary risks to the
life and limb of workmen engaged
therein are inherent, necessarily or
substantially unavoidable, and to
each OF which employments it is
deemed necessary to establish new
system of compensation for accidents
| to workmen.
(a) The erection or demolition
of any bridge or building in which
there is, or in which the plans or
specifications require iron or steel
| framework.
(b) The operation of elevators.
elevating machines or derricks or
hosting apparatus used within orl
on the outside of any bridge or
building for the conveying of mate
rial in connection with the erection
or demolition of such bridge or
building.
Co Work on scaffods of any
kind elevated twenty feet or more
above the ground, water or floor be-
meath, in the erection, construction,
painting, alteration or repair of any
buildings, bridges or structures.
(d) Construction, operation, al
teration, or repair of wires, cables.
switchboards or apparatus charged
with electric currents
(e) The operation on railroads
OF locomotives, engines, trains, mo-
| tors or cars nronnlIad b,- crr,y;4,-