The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-02-10
CON PENS ATION ACT
MAKES GOOD SHOWING.
TO Gov. Stewart:

To Gov. Stewart:
In response to your request OF this
date for brief detailed information
relative to the present status of the
Norkmen's Compensation Act, we
beg leave to say that in the seven
months that the law has been in eff
feet, dating from July list last year,
IL employers have elected to oper-
ate under plan l of the act, which
plan is generally recognized as
meaning self-insurance. OF this
number 6 were refused admission
due to their inability to satisfy the
board relative to their financial re-
sponsbi]ity, thus leaving 65 employ
ers under plan 1, with 21,733 en-
ployees. The employers in question
under plan l, have paid out in COM
pensation and medical and hospital
fees. since July 118,736.6 3 which
has gone to 514 employees in pay
ment of compensation for loss of
time or earning power and to %
beneficiaries and dependents who
have paid compensation account the
accidental death of husbands or
sons upon whom they have been de-
pending for support The pending
claims awaiting settlement under
this plan will aggregate about $685.
900, making a total liability for
compensation under plan l for z
months, of $173,736.
Plan of the act provides for the
employer insuring his isk with any
insurance company authorized to do
business in the state. Nine hun
dred and twenty-seven employers
elected this plan, of which 10 were
refused admission under plan 2, due
to the fact that the occupation they
were engaged in was not considered
hazardous as defined by the ACT.
This leaves SIT employers, with
4.413 employees, now operating un-
der this plan OF the act, who have
paid out i'll compensation the sum
of $4,000, account loss of time or
earning power and $402.24 to ben
eticiaries and dependents account &C.
cidental death of husband or son.
The pending claims under this plan
approximate about $4,000 making
total liability under this plan to
date of a19,312.
Plan three OF the act, generally
known as state insurance, has been
selected by 204 employers, with
1928 employees. In behalf of these
employers, operating under this plan
the state through the medium OF
the Industrial Accident Fund, has
paid out in compensation to in
jared employees account loss OF
time and earning power, the sum
OF 81 ,o6S and for medical and hos
pital attendance the sum of 1891.
The pending claims under this plan
will aggregate about $1,000, making
the total liza bility under this plan
to date S2660. AS there have been
no accidental deaths among the en-
ployees under plan 3, there has been
nothing paid out to benefciaries or
dependents. The 204 employers in
question have paid into the Indus
trial Accident Fund, in assessments,
the sum of $12,74O. which leaves a
credit balance of little over $10,-
600 in the Industrial Accident Fund,
which at the ration of compensation
that has been paid out for the past
months Wiuld be sufficient to meet
the requirements of the fund for
a year or more.
Under the three plans, covering
the seven months just expired, there
has been paid out in compensations
and medical and hospital fees, in
Guiding pending claims that have
been approved, $195,709, or an av-
erage OF little less than $4,000
month.
The total number of employers
now operating under the act.
through the medium of all three
plans, aggregates 1886, employing
3S,646 employees. The total num-
Der of accidents reported is 3614,
of which 50 were fatal; 1 perma-
nent total disability; SO permanent
partial disability; 35O6 temporary
total disability, of which number
673 received com pensation and 2941
returned to work before the expi-
ration of the two weeks waiting per-
iod and as consequence received
no compensation other than the first
aid medical and hospital attention,
provided by the act. These figures
show that one employee out of every
III met with some kind of accident
during the past seven months.
The law seems to he giving gen
eral satisfaction, as the board is in
receipt of complaints in on'v YER
rare instances and upon investiga-
ton it is generally found that the