National Workers' Compensation Act, 1976: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2018 ... March 2, 3, and 4, 1976 |
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Page 498 - Loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any two thereof shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the contrary, constitute permanent total disability.
Page 622 - Compensation shall be payable under this chapter in respect of disability or death of an employee, but only if the disability or death results from an injury occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States (including any dry dock) and if recovery for the disability or death through workmen's compensation proceedings may not validly be provided by State law.
Page 426 - An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,
Page 1063 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "agricultural labor" includes all service performed — (1) on a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife...
Page 611 - Without doubt Congress has power to alter, amend or revise the maritime law by statutes of general application embodying its will and judgment. This power, we think, would permit enactment of a general employers' liability law or general provisions for compensating injured employees ; but it may not be delegated to the several States.
Page 184 - injury" means accidental injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment.
Page 1070 - ... whose employment is but casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, profession' or occupation of his employer.
Page 756 - Court is of opinion the words, "it shall be the duty," were not used as mandatory and compulsory, but as declaratory of the moral duty which this compact created when Congress had provided the mode of carrying it into execution. The act does not provide any means to compel the execution of this duty, nor...
Page 396 - Wages" means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the accident, including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging or similar advantage received from the employer.
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