State Ex Rel. Powhatan Mining Co. v. Industrial Commission

The Industrial Commission contends that under the Constitution and the enabling act, Section 1465-54, paragraph 4, General Code, it had authority to apply a rating system to the relator as an individual employer, calculated upon merit and predicated upon the basis of the relator’s individual accident experience in the prosecution of its mining business. Counsel for the relator insist that neither Constitution nor statute contains such authority; but that the rating system is required to be imposed upon occupational groups or class according to the degree of hazard attaching to the occupation,…