The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-13
OHIO COMPENSATION HAS COMPULSORY INSURANCE FEATURE
Cost To the Employer Is 1n- teresting In View of the Controversy Over the
 Alabama Bill
Ny W. J. ROLES

| In view of the statewide interest in
 the workman's compensation act, now pending in the Alabama legislature, anc ! which has been postponed until the
 summer session, the classifications and cost of liability insurance in Ohio' whose law has often been cited as the
 model law of the kind in this country,
 would be not only interesting, but in structlve to employers. employees and
 legislators alike.
 The Ohio law is compulsory and alsS compes all employers of five or more la borers except farm labor and domestic 1 servants, to contribute to the state in- surance fund. Liability insurance com-
 panies are not permitted to write this
 character of business in the state.
 Some of the classes of employment that
 would apply in Alabama were the Ohio | law adopted here, and the annual prem ! ium per $loo of pay roll are here set out. 1 Additions to buildings and plants, S.2o; automobile garage (saiesmen, repair and
 drivers), % cents: bakeries, S115; bicycle and bicycle parts manufacturers (also as sembling manufactured parts), A.65; blast 1 furnaces, operation of S3.25 boat build ing Gron, steel or wood. when scaffolding ] is used). S275; bolermakers. $2.20; box l manufacturers, folding paper boxes 90 1 cents solid paper box manufacturers, lS1.70; brass goods manufacturers 62 cents 1 brick manufacturers (digging and quar- l rying), S.65; bridge building (metaD, SG,2D; bridge works. $3.5O; building ma ! terial dealers, $2.45 carriage coach and l wagon manufacturers assembling partsi, SO cents; coal mining, $3,30; canneries. Si&j; carpenters and contractors tawaN from shop, S15o; cellar excavation,
 $2.20; chain manufacturers. $1.10; cigar
 and cigarette manufacturers hand made), 10 cents; clay and shale mines. $2.95; clothing manufacturers, II cents;
 coal merchants Gand only). $225: coffin and casl1et manufacturers twood), SIPS; concrete work. floors pavements, not self bearing, 90 cents; concrete work. bridge building $7.S5; concrete work, reinforced construction (not grain elevators) A.3o; lcreameries $1 dares. Sl.05; department
 stores, 26 cents: drop forging works, S2.
 drug manufactu 7o cents; earthen- | ware manufacturers, tiling, gas retorts,
 etc, $1l0; electric light and power com
 panies Operation maintenance, etc.),
 sL30.. electrical equipment, installation in building, So cents; forging works (steam) S2.95 brass foundry, 90 cents; iron foun-
 dry, $1.55; foundry (steel castings), $2.4
 furniture dealers (store only), 65 cents furniture manufacturers and finishing N cents, gas WOTkS trfldlHlendnCe), 9l'oO grain elevators dine or terminaD, Sl.30; hardware manufacturers (carriage), $1.S0
 iron and steel works Qabrcating struc-
 tural iron and steeD, $3.10; iron and sSeel
 works Trailing, balconies, fire escapes | etc.), $145; ice manufacturers (artificiaD
 $265; iron workers Structural erection) $745; knitting mills (cop yarn), 40 cents 'laundres, b5 cents; lime quarries (crush ing and blasting), $40; machine shop: l < W foundry, .45; malleable iron works, $l6
 masonry work $2.S5; metal goods manu facturers s165; milling (generaD, N,70
 millwrights, $1.45 mine car and contrac tors equipment, manufacturers, N.75 newspaper offices, P cents: building
 (care and maintenance), S125; packing
 houses (handling and slaughtering), $1.75
 painting and decorating Qncluding stee
 structures and bridges), $495; paint man ufacturers (no lead), 50 cents; potterie 7 general ware, or sanitary or china, etc., f 90 cents; pile drivers $150; pipe and cas iron manufacturers, s1.3O; blaming ant
 moulding mills, s1.90 printers 95 cents
 retail stores. 50 cents; rolling mills (meta plate and sheet only), $1.20; rolling mill , (no rod milD s3.20 rolling mills (rollin I bars ony). s175; rolling tin and tern l plate, $l.15; roofers not structural, no , concrete), s4.45; sand and gravel diggers , l$345; sash door and blind manufactur lers $1.90; sawmills. $3S5; scrap iron deal CTS, $6.60; sewer building (maximun . depth, $3.45; sewer building (no limit t depth), $5.95; sheet metal workers, $lSS < shoe and boot manufacturers. "A cents
 soap and soapine manufacturers, H 4 spring manufacturers, $l.35: steel worker (open hearth), s2.10; stevedores or lump CTS (coal or ore handlers), s3.75; stov v manufacturers (sheel from, 90 cents : stove manufacturers (not sheet iron , S1.15; street and road making. no quarry F ing $1.60; tank builders $1.40; telegrap Q and telephone companies (operatng an n mantenance), 8; tile, roof and drainas . manufacturers, SS cents,s warehouse an
 storage, general. $2.25; waterworks lay
 ing of mains, etc, $2.65 weavers an
 spinners. 65 cents; wholesale stores.
 cents wreckers, not marine $12.75.