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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.coop/users/shauna/statuses/110188170522639570">Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:59:26 JST</a><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna" title="shauna@social.coop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/84683-48-20230122200954.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Shauna GM" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Shauna GM</a><div><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110188130762684171" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Eventually congress intervened and forced the railroads to use automatic couplers. In the early 1990s, government intervened again, passing worker's compensation laws.</p><p>Previously, injured workers or bereaved relatives had to sue to receive compensation, and seldom won. New laws said that injured workers would *automatically* receive compensation from the companies that injured them.</p><p>Companies suddenly had an incentive to prevent injuries and deaths, and workplace accidents plummeted.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1385740#notice-5047368">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-01-06T17:59:26+09:00" title="Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:59:26 JST">about 11 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110188170522639570" rel="external" title="Sent from social.coop via ActivityPub">social.coop</a></span></span><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110188170522639570">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2071964">Eastman was a New Yorker, and in New York, a hub of American industry, the state legislature followed The Pittsburgh Survey with interest. Looking to replicate Eastman’s model on a larger scale, they established a commission to recommend reforms and made her its secretary. The commission came back with much data and one major proposal: workers should no longer need to sue theiremployer to receive compensation for a work accident. Instead, the commission recommended, there should be a system of guaranteed recompense based on the scale of injury and the potential income lost. After a work accident, employers would be responsible for the wreckage left behind—medical bills, the economic livelihood of a family. It would mean that for employers, accidents would finally have a cost.</a></label><br><a href="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/188/168/265/477/340/original/446031ec4e0e4426.png" rel="external">https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/188/168/265/477/340/original/446031ec4e0e4426.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2071965">By the end of the First World War, in most of the United States, when a worker had an accident, employers were legally required to provide compensation for medical care and lost work. For employers, this was a massive shift in their economic calculus. Work accidents once cost only as much as replacing a worker. Now the only way for an employer to reduce costs was toreduce accidents. The decline in work accidents was dramatic. Over the next two decades, deaths per hour worked would fall by two-thirds. At U.S. Steel, in the first decade of the 1900s, one in four workers suffered significant injuries every year. By the late 1930s, that number was one in three hundred.</a></label><br><a href="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/188/170/057/732/545/original/bd9e1a1b5b25cb57.png" rel="external">https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/188/170/057/732/545/original/bd9e1a1b5b25cb57.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:59:26 JST Shauna GM
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Eventually congress intervened and forced the railroads to use automatic couplers. In the early 1990s, government intervened again, passing worker's compensation laws.
Previously, injured workers or bereaved relatives had to sue to receive compensation, and seldom won. New laws said that injured workers would *automatically* receive compensation from the companies that injured them.
Companies suddenly had an incentive to prevent injuries and deaths, and workplace accidents plummeted.
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1. Eastman was a New Yorker, and in New York, a hub of American industry, the state legislature followed The Pittsburgh Survey with interest. Looking to replicate Eastman’s model on a larger scale, they established a commission to recommend reforms and made her its secretary. The commission came back with much data and one major proposal: workers should no longer need to sue their employer to receive compensation for a work accident. Instead, the commission recommended, there should be a system of guaranteed recompense based on the scale of injury and the potential income lost. After a work accident, employers would be responsible for the wreckage left behind—medical bills, the economic livelihood of a family. It would mean that for employers, accidents would finally have a cost.
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2. By the end of the First World War, in most of the United States, when a worker had an accident, employers were legally required to provide compensation for medical care and lost work. For employers, this was a massive shift in their economic calculus. Work accidents once cost only as much as replacing a worker. Now the only way for an employer to reduce costs was to reduce accidents. The decline in work accidents was dramatic. Over the next two decades, deaths per hour worked would fall by two-thirds. At U.S. Steel, in the first decade of the 1900s, one in four workers suffered significant injuries every year. By the late 1930s, that number was one in three hundred.
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