An American Accident Table

When the first workmen's compensation laws became effective and the insurance carriers faced the problem of establishing rates to employers for this form of coverage, it became necessary to establish some method for measuring the difference in costs between the varying benefit scales of state laws. For this purpose an industrial accident distribution according to the nature of injury was required and, due to an almost complete lack of American statistics, Dr. Rubinow compiled his Standard Accident Table from European data.