Bulletin Volume 264 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... has of mortality rates. It would be unfortunate just as this condition is beginning to prevail to introduce a new method probably but little, if any, more easily applied than the one now ' in use. WHY TABULATE NONCOMPENSATED ACCIDENTS? BY I.. V. HATCH, CHIEF STATISTICIAN, NEW YORK STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. When I was asked to discuss at this meeting the question which is the subject of this paper nothing was said as to why this question should be raised. Considering the tacit assumption that has all along been made by this association and its committee on statistics that noncompensated accidents are to be tabulated, the raising of the question now may seem rather late or quite uncalled for. That assumption appears in the very first action of this association concerning accident statistics when, at the meeting in Chicago, in January, 1915, it adopted a standard definition of a tabulatable accident identical with the previously established standard definition of a reportable accident, which latter included every accident causing loss of time other than the remainder of the day, turn, or shift on which the accident occurred. ' But during the last three years we have learned much about accident statistics by experience, and one of the things that some of us have had thus borne in upon us is the great amount of work involved in producing adequate statistics of accidents and the difliculty of securing suflicient resources for such work. I venture to think that I give the common situation of accident statisticians to-day when I say that they are forced to a selection only from among various desirable lines of work. In a word, they have to do what they can and live in hopes of the rest sometime in the...