14 SETTLEMENT FOR ACCIDENTS TO AMERICAN SEAMEN
TABLE T.—Per cent of total cases under each principal injury or condition distributed
 by method of settlement

Method of settling cases

[njury or condition

Amputation or dismemberment. _._____.
Joncussion, dislocation, or fracture __..__
30D and SCAU. cup wm i i
Abrasion, bruise, laceration, or puncture. .
Iprain......__... we
FO cma
Jernia. ___._..._______.. ___.
loreign matter embedded... ._....
Decupational disease. - . meme emenan
Death. __.__..... “a
Dther causes_.... ..

All cases...
Followed by infeetion.____.

Number

of
ags8es

4
253
116
irr

Per cent of cases ; :
involving no legal Per cent & og Invving

Personal

agreement


No
claim
filed

Agreement

by
pttorney

Action
compro-



Tury or
judge

4
2
5
5

Total

100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
5 | 100

Tables 5, 6, and 7 also show that 156 injuries out of the 1,195
cases studied or 13 per cent were followed by infection; that 74 per
cent of the infected cases were among those settled by personal
agreement, 4 per cent among those in which no claim was filed, 7 per
cent in the group settled by agreement between a claim adjuster
and an attorney for the seaman, 12 per cent in the group settled by
compromise after legal action had been commenced, and 3 per cent
among those settled by court decision.
The tables show that the study covered 22 death cases. Drowning
caused 5 deaths; fractures, 4; burns, 3; gas asphyxiation, 2; exposure,
1; explosion, 1; internal injuries, 1; laceration, 1; and collision, 1.
The exact nature of the injury in the latter case is unknown.
The cases included under “Other causes” are those resulting from
such causes as traumatic arthritis, hydrocele, neurosis, osteitis,
thrombosis, hypertrophy, paralysis, and one case of endarteritis
obliterans.

Provisions of the ll Act and Method of
pplication

THE provisions of the longshoremen’s and harbor workers’ compensation
 act which have been used as the basis for computing
estimated compensation for seamen are as follows:

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(b) Compensation for disability shall not exceed $25 per week nor be less than
$8 per week: Provided, however, That if the employee’s wages at the time of injury
are less than 88 per week he shall receive his full weekly wages.

Compensation for disability

Src. 8. Compensation for disability shall be paid to the employee as follows:
(a) Permanent total disability: In case of total disability adjudged to be
permanent 6628 per centum of the average weekly wages shall be paid to the
emplovee during the continuance of such total disability. Loss of both hands.