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Accident Prevention Means Lower Insurance 



By Carle Abrams, Member of the State Industrial Accident Commission 



SINCE tlie State Industrial Accident 

 Commission announced last July 

 that a rate of 2 per cent had been made 

 for general farming, and that applica- 

 tion from farmers for the portection of 

 the Compensation Act would be ac- 

 cepted, several hundred farmers have 

 taken advantage of the Act and more 

 farmers are coming in each day. The 

 Commission has now declared an ex- 

 emption of payments for February, and 

 those who have paid into the fund for 

 the preceding six months will have 

 their insurance carried free during 

 February. A similar exemption was 

 made last July. This makes two ex- 

 emptions for this fiscal year, which 

 begins July 1, and is a reduction in 

 the rate of 16% per cent. 



Those farmers as well as all other 

 employers working under the Act, who 

 have a good accident experience for the 

 year, requiring the Commission to pay 

 out for accidents to their workmen, 

 not to exceed 50 per cent of that em- 

 ployers contribution, will be granted 

 a reduction in their rate of 10 per cent. 

 This will bring the farmers' rate 

 down to .$1.80 on each .$100 of payroll. 

 For those whose accident experience is 

 as good for the second year, will re- 

 ceive a second reduction of 10 per cent 

 in their rate on July 1, 1917, bringing 

 the rate down to $1.60 on each $100 of 

 payroll. These reductions are in addi- 

 tion to exemptions. The rate for those 

 farmers paying 2 per cent this year is, 

 therefore, after deducting two months' 

 exemptions (one-sixth of the entire 

 year), $1,667 for each $100 of payroll. 

 After .luly 1, 1016, those that earn 10 

 per cent reduction will pay oidy $1..")0, 

 and one year later thi.s shoidd he re- 

 duced to $1.35, a very low rate indeed, 

 provided the same monthly exemptions 

 are then possible. 



Tlic state contributes sudicient money 

 to the fund to pay all expenses of 

 administering the fund, therefore every 

 dollar paid by employers and workmen 

 is available to be paid back to injured 

 workmen for hospital and medical at- 

 tention and for time lost. The rate the 

 employers pay bears a direct ratio to 

 the number of accidents. There are no 

 leaks, no profits and no commissions 



to pay. Accidents only are paid for. 

 Reduce the number of accidents and 

 the rate of payment to the fund will 

 be reduced by additional exemptions. 



The records of this Commission show 

 that last year one of each eight work- 

 men employed in hazardous occupa- 

 tions in Oregon were injured. This is 

 too high a percentage. By co-opera- 

 tion of employers and workmen to pre- 

 vent accidents the Commission believes 

 that the number of injuries can be cut 

 in half. That means cutting the rate 

 in half, by reductions and exemptions, 

 and the farmer would then be paying 

 less than 1 per cent. No farmer in 

 Oregon can atTord to carry the risk of 

 injuring or killing workmen when he 

 can thus receive insurance with the 

 absolute protection of the state at 

 actual cost, and be given also the oppor- 

 tunity of constantly reducing his rate. 



In view of the above, the Commis- 

 sion has issued a call to employers and 

 workmen of Oregon to co-operate in a 

 movement to prevent accidents, and 

 will conduct an active campaign of ac- 

 cident prevention. The results desired 

 can only be accomplished by co-opera- 

 tion of both employers and workmen 

 with the state and will result in a vast 



saving in money, and an increase in 

 efficiency of manufacturing and other 

 operations through preventing loss of 

 time and the necessity of replacing in- 

 jured workmen who are experienced 

 with inexperienced men. Wliat is more 

 important still, it will prevent untold 

 sufl'ering to the thousands of workmen 

 who are now annually torn and 

 mangled, many of them made wrecks 

 for life, while toiling to earn their daily 

 bread. 



Estimates on Crops Are Important 



If every fruitgrower had made a rea- 

 sonably correct estimate of his crop 

 this year he would not have found him- 

 self .short of help, paper, boxes, etc. A 

 man must have the proper idea of the 

 volume of business to be done in order 

 to provide proper facilities for taking 

 care of his business. 



"Poultry Breeding and Management" 

 is the title of a new book edited by 

 Professor Dryden of the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College, Corvallis, whose fame 

 as a successful, practical, scientific 

 poultryman is well known, especially 

 throughout the Northwest. Anyone 

 who is interested in poultry will find 

 this a very valuable book. Published 

 by the Orange Judd Company of New 

 York. 





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