The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-12-09
Workers. Benefits
Under Ohio Law

The compensation benefits referred
to here are those payable under the
most recent amendments of the legiS-
lature to the Ohio law.
sol 90 per week is the maximum or
highest amount that can be paid for
an injury arising out of employment.
S21 90 per week is also the maximum
amount that can be paid for an occu
pational disease.
$500 a week is the minimum amount
occupational disease arising out of
employment
There is Ona exception in connection
with the minimum payment of $500
per week. to which attention should be
called. That exception is this: Where
the wage paid amounts to less than
| $500 per week, the compensation paid
would equal the wage paid. In other
words, if 500 week represented the
wage paid for IL week, by the same
token 500 would represent the amount
of weekly compensation that could be
paid.
You should remember too, that no
compensation can be paid for the first
week of lost time. due to an injury or
occupational disease arising out of
employment.
You can, however, be paid your
medical expenses for the first week of
disability for either injury or occu-
pational disease.
If your injury or occupational dis
ease causes you to lose time from work
beyond the first week you can, Of
course, be paid compensation in addi
tion to your medical expenses.
Perhaps | should mention that medi,
cal expenses, including payments TO
your attending physician, payments
for medicine, as well as payments for
nursing and hospital care would be
paid in all cases where such medical
care or service is necessary.
The law limits medical expenditure
to the sum of $4,000 except in I'M
usual cases, in which event the Com
mission may upon unanimous vote
greatly exceed $4,000, as the Com
mission usually does. 1t has one
claimant on its books today on which
more than S6O,O0O0O has been eX-
pended This is IL broken back case
where Il day and night nurse are con
Stantly necessary. \ Scaif0ld on which
this man was working collapsed and
dropped him a distance of 10 feet, with
the result that he has been Il helpless
invalid since.
An employee who is injured and I'M
able to do any work, but whose injury
is one from which he will eventually
recover, is usually referred to by the
Industrial Commission as being Il tenn
porary total disability case.
Getting back to the main question
Of benefits again. let us see what an
employee in the shop would be Ell
titled TO receive in compensation bene-
fits, who breaks Il lee while at work
and his attending physician reports
to the Industrial Commission that he
will be off work for at least twelve
weeks. Such an injured employees
compensation payments would be
figured on his full weekly wage at the
time of his injury.
Suppose his full weekly wage at the
time Of injury amounted to S31.5O. The
law provides that he shall be paid at
twO-thirdS of his Wa@r at the time of
injury, not to exceed S2l.OO per Week
What would twO-thirdS of S3l.5O be!
Well, lets multiply $3l.W by : and
find out. = times SO 80 equals $1,000
Now. we must divide hat $4,000 by g.
$1,000 divided by 3 gives sd. 90. and
S21OO represents the compensation ne
would be entitled to receive. And since
S2lO represents tn" maximum that
could be paid under the law, that
would be all he could receive per week
during the II weeks Of disability.
If he were disabled for the full
twelve weeks, due t" his broken lee,
he would be entitled 10 Il total award
Of $.-o.OO You can h-ure this amount