Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. v. Industrial Commission

Sec. 102.46, Stats., fixes the basis for computing the award for death benefits, when death of an employee immediately results from an injury sustained in the course of his employment, and when the beneficiaries are wholly dependent on him for support, at four times the employee’s average annual earnings. Under circumstances such as are here involved the determination of an employee’s annual earnings is governed by consideration of pars, (a), (b), (c), and (d) of sec. 102.11 (2), Stats. These paragraphs are as follows:

“(a) If the employee has worked in the employment in which he was working…