The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-01-11

" ACPOiI VI us operations TO
Governor Stewart. 1t is as follows:
LAS per your instructions this date
herewith please find brief statement
covering operation Workmen's Com
p%ensation act up to December 81 last,
which ended thirty months operation
under the law; 2,O46 employers are
under the act, with 6O,S9O employees
las reported for the year 1916, now
fully 100000 There has been paid
out in compensation and medical fees
~S1,17O,121, which with estimated pend
ing claims of $780, 900, makes a total
liability to date of S1,30O,OOO.
Accidents Reported to Date.
Total accidents to date, 17,757, of
which sos We're fatal; ii totally dis
abled; 1862 permanently partially dis
abled; 1876 temporarily totally dis
abled, of which 4,484 received COM
p%ensation and 1882 returned to work
before the expiration of the two weeks
waiting period and received only the
medical benefits provided by the act.
Of the fatals, 348 We're in quartz
mines; 46 in coal mones; 33 in smelt-
ing; nine in construction work; IL in
numbering; Is in electrical power work
and AZ in miscellaneous operations.
Plan Number One.
OF the 2,046 employers, 60 qualified
under plan No. l to carry their own
risks, bringing with them under the
act 24,47O employees las reported for
the year 1916, now fully 100000 and
have paid out in compensation Tin
Guiding pending claims) $975,O48,
which, computed on the entire payroll
for the past 80 months of $135, 49,
TAG, indicates an accident cost of less
than three-quarters of one per cent,
which in addition to indicating very
insurance also evidences the crafty
ing fact of a low accident record.
Plan Number Two.
Under plan No. 2, 1,O42 employers
with 1892 employees operated pay
ing through 13 different insurance
companies compensation (including
pending claims) of $254,957, which,
computed on the payroll for the 80
months of $36,349,115 shows an actual
accident cost of less than three
fourths of one per cent of the payroll
and like plan one indicates a low &C.
cident record and also that the insur-
anc companies might safely reduce
premium rates.
Plan Number Three.
! Plan three, called Estate Insurance."
has been selected by 944 employers
with 1928 employees. account which
the state has paid out in compensation
$62, 7O8.0 with pending claims aggre-
eating 10000, making a total of $780,
708.O9, which computed on a payroll
of $~12,O52,232, for the 30 months,
shows approximately the same acct
dent cost of about three-quarters of
one per cent, which indicates that the
premium rates fixed by the legislature
for plan three are, like the insurance
companies rates, too high, but under
this plan an equalizer exists in the
authority given the board to pass the
monthly assessments when not need
ed. So far only eight assessments
have been levied out of a possible 30;
yet the industrial accident fund is in
g., iy,1xy rool condition with , L,1,n,a
over $40 900 on hand. There has been
collected a total of $685. 1886, which in
dicates a premium cost of a shade
over One per cent of the entire pay
roll and is unquestionably the cheap
est insurance protection in existence.
Mines and Inspections.
On March 1, last the three depart
ments of quartz mine, coal mine and
boiler inspection were placed under
the direction of the industrial acct
dent board, since which date 1876
quartz mines have been inspected at
an expense of $5,363; 60 coal mines at
a cost of $3,877; and 1924 boilers have
been inspected and approximately
5000 engineers licenses issued at a
cost of 1892, against which the
work done has realized the state
something over 500, 900 in fees collect
ed, indicating a net earning for the
boiler department has made a splendid
record since March 4, in that three
inspectors since that date have in
spected 264 more boilers than four in
spectors did for the entire year of
1916. The net earnings to the state
exceeds by several thousand dollars
the maximum earnings Of any former
year by this department.
Safety Inspection.
Practically all of the industrial
plants of the state, where labor is
engaged in hazardous occupation,
have been inspected once or more as
to safety conditions in accordance
with the provisions of the act. Dur
ing the past 30 months 1924 plants
have been inspected and many recon-