The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-02
EMPLOYERS MUST REPORT AC-
CIDENTS.
Iowa Industrial Commissioners Of
flee Notifies Employers that the
Law Requires Report to BE
Made,


Made.
- Mr.. Warren Garst, Iowa Industrial
commissioner, is sending out blanks
to employers on which they are re-
Quired to rake reports of accidents
occurring to their employees. AS ignor-
ance of the law excuses no one 1t is
important that employers keep the
blanks and make their reports when
accidents do take place. Some of the
provisions of the law appear on the
back of the Blanks sent out from
the Industrial commissioners office
and are as follows:
Report to industrial commission,
Des Moines, observation-disclosures
Inspections Every en-
ployer shall hereafter keep record
of all injuries, fatal or otherwise,
sustained by his employees in the
course of their employment. Within
forty-eight hours, not counting Sun
days and legal holidays, after the
employed has knowledge of the oc-
currence of an accident resulting in
personal injury, a report shall be
made in writing by the employer to
the industrial commissioner on
blanks to be procured from the
commissioner for that purpose.
Upon the termination of the dis
ability of the injured employe, or if
such disability extends beyond a
period of sixty days, at the expira-
ton of such period, the employer
shall make a supplemental report on
blanks to be procured from the COM
missioner for that purpose. The said
reports shall contain the name and
nature of the business of the employ
er, the location of the ablishment,
the name, age sex, and occupation Of
the injured employee, and shall state
the date and hour of the accident,
the nature and cause OF the injury,
and such other information as may
be required by the commissioner.
Any employer who refuses or ne
elects to make the report required
by this section shall be punished by
fine of not more than fifty dollars
($5O.OO) dollars for each offense.
(35 G. A., Oh. 14l, Sec. 37.)
Liability-fxing compensa ton.
That the law enacted by the thirty
fifth general assembly known as
senate file No. 3, relating to employ
ers liability for personal injury sus-
tanned by employees in line OF duty,
and fixing compensation therefor,
shall not apply to an injury sustain
ed by such employee of such en-
ployer which occurs prior to the time
when such act takes effect in all of
it's parts; but the law and procedure
in force at the time such injury Oc-
Ia
in all of it's parts, shall be the same
as though said act had not been en-
acted whether such action is brought
before or after such act takes effect
in all of it's parts. 35 G. A., Chap.
14S.
Report to the Bureau of Labor,
Des Moines, Iowa-Record of acct
d e t s-report-failure-
Manufacturers, manufacturing cor
pora tons, proprietors or corpora
tons operating any mercantile es-
adjustments, mills, workshops,
mines other than those subject to in
spection by the state mine inspector,
or business houses, shall keep a care
full record of any accidents occurring
to an employe while at work for the
when such accident results
in the death of the employee or in
such bodily injury as will or probab-
ly will prevent him from returning
to work within four days thereafter.
The said record shall at all times be
open to inspection by an inspector of
the bureau of labor statistics. Within
forty-eight hours after the occur
renee of an accident, the record of
which is herein required to be kept,
a written report thereof shall be for
warded to the commissioner of the
bureau of labor statistics, and said
may require further
and additional report to be furnished
him should the first report be by him
deemed insufficient No statement
in any such report shall be
in any action arising out
of the accident therein reported. Any
employer who fails to keep the rec
ord or to furnish the report as here
in provided shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
five ($5) dollars not more. than one
hundred ($10O) dollars and costs of