White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-23
New Law Allows Damages to
Be Collected BY Injured or
By Relatives of Killed
RIGID ACT OF LEGISLATURE
CERTAIN EMPLOYMENTs AND IN
DUSTRIES DECLARED DANGER
ous AND COMPENSATION FOR
ACCIDENT PROVIDED FOR.

The enactment of the employers
liability law by the recent session OF
the legislature whereby certain EN-
ployments and industries are deter
mined To be especially dangerous,
and establishing a system OF COM
pensation for accidents to workmen,
has caused much interest through
out the state. In response to re-
quest to give synopsis OF the law
the News is pleased TO publish the
act in full, which follows.
Section l. IL In any employment
to which this act applies personal in
Jury disabling workman from his
regular service for more than ten
days or death by accident, arising
out of and in the course of employ
ment is caused TO a workman. the
workman so injured. or In case OF
death, the member of his family, as
hereinafter defined, shall be entitled
to receive from his employer, and the
said employer shall be liable 10 pay.
the compensation provided for in this
act; provided, that recovery here
under shall not be barred where such
employee may have been guilty OF
eontributory negligence where such
eontributory negligence is slight and
that of the employer Is gross In COM
parison. but In which event the com
pensation may be diminished in pro-
portion to the amount of negligence
I'll 4, Il, oh nf.l "a
guilty of eontributory negligence In
any case where the violation of any
statute enacted for the safety of em-
ployees contributed to such em-
ployee's injury; and IL shall not be
a defense: ID That the employee
either expressly or impliedly assumed
the risk of the hazard complained of;
90 That 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 incor-
porate and the legal personal repre-
sentative of deceased employer.
:Workman" includes every person
who is engaged in an employment TO
which this act applies, whether by
way of manual labor or otherwise,
and where his agreement Is one Oh
service or apprenticeship or other
wise, and is expressed or implied, Is
oral or I'm writing. Any reference to
a workman who has been injured
shall, where the workman Is dead,
include a reference to his legal per-
sonal representative or to his de-
pendents or other person to whom
compensation is payable. Deepen
dents" 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.
Ses. 3. This act shall apply TO
workmen engaged In manual or
mechanical labor in the following EN-
pigments within this state, each OF
which is hereby determined to be es-
pecially dangerous, in which from
the nature, condition or means Oh
prosecution of the work therein, eA-
traordinary risks to the life and limbs
of workmen engaged therein are IN
herent, necessarily or substantially
unavoidable, and to each OF which
employments II Is deemed necessary
to establish a new system OF compen-
sation for accidents to workmen.
(a) The erection or demolition
of any bridge or building In which
there is, or in which the plans OF
specifications require iron or steel
framework;
OBJ The operation of elevators.
eleyating machines or derricks OF
hoisting apparatus used within or on
the outside of any bridge or building
for the conveying of material In con
nection with the erection or demoli-
ton of such bridge or building;
(e) Work on scafolds or any
kind elevated twenty feet or more
above the ground, water or moor De-
meath. in the erection, construction.
painting, alteration or repair oi
buildings, bridges or structures'
(d) Construction. operation. al
teration, or repair of wires, caoles
switchboards or apparatus enarseu
with electric currents;
(e) The operation on railroaus
OF locomotives, engines, tra,ns
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