The Economics of Contracting: A Treatise for Contractors, Engineers, Superintendents and Foremen Engaged in Engineering Contracting Work, Volume 1E.H. Baumgartner, 1911 - Contractors' operations |
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Page 235 - ... (a) A necessary risk or danger of the employment or one inherent in the nature thereof ; or (b) Failure of the employer of such workman or any of his or its officers, agents or employees to exercise due care, or to comply with any law affecting such employment...
Page 235 - ... 2. The operation of elevators, elevating machines or derricks or hoisting apparatus used within or on the outside of any bridge or building for the conveying of materials in connection with the erection or demolition of such bridge or building. 3. Work on scaffolds of any kind elevated twenty feet or more above the ground, water, or floor beneath in the erection, construction, painting, alteration or repair of buildings, bridges or structures. 4. Construction, operation, alteration or repair...
Page 234 - ... 4. The operation of all elevators, elevating machines or derricks or hoisting apparatus used within or on the outside of any bridge, building or other structure for conveying materials in connection with the erection or demolition of such bridge, building or structure.
Page 234 - The erection or demolition of any bridge or building in which there is, or in which the plans and specifications require, iron or steel frame work.
Page 235 - If, in the course of any of the employments above described, personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment after this article takes effect is caused to any workman employed therein, in whole or in part, or the damage or injury caused thereby is in whole or part contributed to by a. A necessary risk or danger of the employment or one inherent in the nature thereof ; or b. Failure of the employer of such workman or any of his or its officers.
Page 235 - ... other explosives, where the same are used as instrumentalities of the industry. 6. The operation on steam railroads of locomotives, engines, trains, motors, or cars propelled by gravity or steam, electricity, or other mechanical power, or the construction or repair of steam railroad tracks and roadbeds over which such locomotives, engines, trains, motors, or cars are operated. 7. The construction of tunnels and subways. 8. All work carried on under compressed air. § 216. Definitions. — The...
Page 235 - All work necessitating dangerous proximity to gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or any other explosives, where the same are used as instrumentalities of the industry.
Page 233 - In case men are killed in work-accidents, their widows and children will receive one and one-half years' wages, with an additional 10 per cent for each child under sixteen and 3 per cent for each year of service of the deceased above five years.
Page 170 - ... addition to existing capital), which goes indeed into the control of those who created it by perceiving the (supposed) opportunity or necessity and using their own means at their own risk to supply it ; but it is not, therefore, for the true interest of any person or class to make it less by increasing the investment, for otherwise there is a waste which, as it benefits no one, indirectly injures all.
Page 170 - ... common-sense for the investors and their servants, but it is sound political economy for the community as a whole. It does not mean nor imply cheap and shabby construction. It simply means AN AVOIDANCE OF WASTE, either in saving money or spending it. It simply means a recognition of the fact that every dollar and every day's work which goes into the ground and does not bring something out of it, makes not only the individual but the whole community the poorer. The welfare of all mankind, as well...