The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-10-27
QUESTIONS REPLIED
TO BY COMMISSION
Industrial Insurance Commission Issues
Instructions to Employees
and Employers


I am hurt?" and What do I have to
do when one of my men gets hurt? "
are questions asked of the Industrial
Insurance Commission, not only every
day, but almost every hour of the day
by the workingmen and employers Of
the state.
Answering the first question, the
commission has prepared set OF form
letters which, after referring to the re-
ported accident, reads substantially as
follows:
Please apply to your employer or
call on this commission for blanks and
have the same filed out and returned
to this Office at once.
Form % must be signed by yourself
and No. % by the doctor who treats
your injury. Form No. % should be
made out and signed, whenever posi-
Bile, by witnesses who saw the accident.
The doctor who has charge OF your
case is required by law to help yon in
making out these forms.
Please have these blanks made out
fully and carefully that you may get
your money promptly. Under no cir
cumstantes will money be paid out OF
the accident fund until these forms are
promptly made out and returned to this
office"
The employer is also sent a form
letter, which, after giving reference to
the accident, reads thus:
Please find enclosed form No. 81,
to be made out by the employer ac-
cording to law and forwarded to this
Office at once.
1--WE also enclose form No. 81, to
be made out by the injured employe
and form No. % by the attending
physician, Whenever possible form
No. % should be signed by witnesses
who saw the accident.
Please have these blanks made out
fully and accurately so that the injured
workman may be entitled to compensa-
ton. When discharged from surgical
care, form No. 81 must be filed out
by the physician in charge and sent to
this Office.
please note these requirements and
see that the necessary forms are filed
and forwarded promptly. The com
mission respectfully requests your CO.
operation in this work.
By means of this system and by en-
couraging the employer and employe
to work together instead of at cross
purposes, as formerly, the commission
hopes to administer the act to their
mutual benefit and bring about bet
ter state Of feeling between these two
great commercial forces-the working
man and the captain Of industry.
For quick reference and to give
needed information to both parties the
commission has issued set of rules
and regulations and also placard for
posting in mills, Offices and industrial
establishments of all kinds. The let
ter is simply worded and is intended to
be direct and unmistakeable. It is
headed, What to do if injured" and
reads in part as follows:
make out a claim at once or have
someone do it for you.
use blank No. % which you can
get from your employer or from the in
dustrial insurance commission in Oily
mpia or from any of its branch Offices
as follows: Seattle, 524, Haight build
ing; Tacoma, 500 Bank Of California
building; Spokane, 40 Fernwell
building. Fill out and sign claim and
send back to main Office at Olympia.
Get the doctor who attends you to
make out a report and send it in. This
hlank renort can be secured from any
Of the above Offices. You may call
any doctor you like. Section II Of
the law requires the attending physi-
clan to help you in making out these
blanks.
Don't hire lawyer. Ask the as
sistance of your employer and the
commission first, If you come under
the law and get hurt while doing your
work you will get your money without
a lawsuit.