Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

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/ (3) Where death proximate1y results
| from the injury and the deceased leaves
a person or persons wholly dependent
upon him for support, the death benefit
shall be as follows:
(a) In case the injured employee was
permanently totally disabled, sum equal
/ to four times his average annual earn
ings, but which, when added to the dis
ability indemnity paid and due at the
time of death, shall not exceed six times
| his average annual earnings
CD In case the injured employee was
not permanently totally disabled, such
| indemnity paid and due at the time of
| his death, shall equal four times his aver
| age annual earnings.
! ca If death occurs to an injured en-
| ployee other than as "a proximate result
| of the accident, before disability indem-
nifty ceases. death benefit shall be as fol-
| lows:
(a) Where the accident proximately
| causes permanent total disability, IL shall
be the same as if the accident had
| caused death.
/ (b) Where the accident rroximately
causes permanent partial disability, liza
| bllity shall exist for such benefit rs shall
fairly represent the proportionate extent
| of the impairment Of earning capacity in
the employment in which the deceased
was working at the time of the accident
or other suitable employment, caused by
| such disability
(c) In case the deceased employee
leaves no one wholly dependent upon him
| for support, but one or more persons par
TALLY dependent therefor, the death BEN
eft shall not exceed four times the
| amount devoted by deceased, during the
year Immediately preceding his death, to
| the support of such dependents and shall
be apportloned according to the percent
age that the amount devoted by the de-
| caSed to the support of such person or
| persons, for the year Immediately prior
| to the accident, bears to the average an
| nual earnings of the deceased.
! (d) If the deceased employee leaves no
| person dependent upon him for support,
and the accident proxin1ately causes
| death, the death benefit shall consist of
| the reasonable expense of his burial, not
| exceeding one hundred dollars.
(e) Death benefit shall be paid in
weekly instruments corresponding in
amount to sixty-five per cent of the
weekly earnings of the employee, until
| otherwise ordered by the commission.
60 In cases included by the follow
| ing schedule, the compensation to be
paid, subject to the provisions of this act
shall be sixty-fve per cent of the aver
age weekly earnings of the employee for
the periods named in the schedule, to
| wit:
The loss of one arm at or near the
shoulder, 240 weeks;
The loss of an arm at the elbow, 200
| weeks;
The loss of a forearm at the lower half
\
The loss of a hand, 100 weeks
The loss of a palm where the thumb
remains, 80 weeks;
The loss of thumb and the metacar-
/ pal bone thereof, 60 weeks;
! The loss of thumb at the proXimal
| joint, 40 weeks;
The loss of thumb at the second or
d distal joint, 20 weeks;
The loss of an index finger and the
! metacarpal bone thereof, 80 weeks;
! The loss of an index finger at the
! prOXimal joint, 20 weeks.
The loss of an index finger at the sec
! ond joint, Is weeks;
! The loss of an index finger at the distal
joint, 10 weeks;
The loss of second finger and the
metacarpal bone thereof, 20 weeks;
The loss of a middle finger at the prox-
| imal joint, is weeks;
The loss of a middle finger at the sec
ond joint 10 weeks;
The loss Of a middle finger at the distal
! joint, weeks;
i The loss of third or ring finger and
! the metacarpal bone thereof, II weeks;
The loss of a ring finger at the prOXi-
NAL joint, weeks;
The loss of a ring finger at the Sec
ond joint 6 weeks;
| The loss of ring finger at the diSta1
/ joint, weeks.
The loss of a little finger and the meta.
carpal bone thereof, Is weeks;
The loss of a little finger at the prox.
| imal joint, 10 weeks;
The loss of a little finger at the second
| joint, weeks;
The loss of little finger at the distal
i joint, 4 weeks;
The loss of all the fingers of one hand
where the thumb and palm remain, 60
! weeks;
The loss of a leg at the hip joint, or so
| near thereto as to preclude the use of
an artificial limb, 240 weeks;
The loss of a leg at or above the knee,
| where stump remains sufficient to permit
the use of an artificial limb, 160 weeks;
The loss of a foot at the ankle. 100
weeks;
The loss of great toe with the meta
! tarsal bone theref, 80 weeks;
The loss of a great toe at the proximal
| joint, 20 weeks;
The loss of a great toe at the second
| joint, 10 weeks;
The loss of any other toe with the met
| atarsal bone thereof, II weeks.
The loss of any other toe at the proX-
| irnal joint, weeks;
/, The loss of any other toe at the second
or distal joint, 4 weeks
The loss Of all the toes of one foot, 40
| weeks;
The loss of an eye by enucleation, 100
/ weeks;
The loss of the second eye, by emu
cleation, 800 weeks;
Total blindness of one eye, 100 weeks;
/ Total blindness of the second eye, $40
| weeks;
Total deafness of both ears, 100 weeks;
Total deafness of one ear, 40 weeks;
| Total deafness of the second ear, 100
/ weeks.
When by reason of infection or other
| cause not due to the neglect or miscon-
z! duct of the injured employee he is actu-
! ally disabled longer than the time speci-
| fed in the foregoing schedule from earn
! ing wage, compensation shall be paid
| such employee for such loss of wage
within the limits otherwise provided.
! For the purposes of this schedule per-
manent and complete paralysis of any
! member shall be deemed equivalent to
| the loss thereof.
! Whenever an amputaton is made be-
tween any two joints mentioned in this
| schedule Except arnputations between the
knee and hip joint the resultant loss
/ shall be estimated as if the amputation
| had been made at the joint nearest
| thereto.
| In all other cases in this class the
compensation shall bear such relation to
/ the amount stated in the above schedule
| as the disabilities bear to those produced
! by the injuries named in the schedule
| If an employee is seriously permanently
disfigured about the face Or head, the
| commission may allow such sum for SOM
pensation on account thereof, as it may
deem just not exceeding $3.50.
In case of permanent injury to an en-
| ployee who is over fifty-five years of age,
the cOrnpenSatiOn herein shall he re-