Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-13 | Page 14 | Appalling List of Railroaders Injured

APPALLING LIST OF RAILROADERS INJURED NEW YORK, Xov. Y. twenty-one twenty-one months 7711 of" tho 0:5,500 employes of the railroads of New York City were injured, according to the report made by the secretary of the public service commission to the commission on employers' em-ployers' liabilili'. .This would mean that on an average each employe will bo injured once, in evory .eight years of service. 4 ' Former Mavor"Scth Low declared that iM.000,O0O wan paid annually in, the L'nited States by employers for individual indi-vidual insurance. Of this sum '20 per cent went to broker?: '20 per cent for maintaining offices: J0 per cent for the expenses ot the litigat.ion between the companies a"nd the claimants; -i) per cent, loi the latter' s counsel, anil '20 per cent to the pirwons injured.