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PAGE 9 ¥-16, I973 TERRACE BAY NEWS ACCIDENT REPORTING are required to have under terms of the Act. So report! Immediately and in detail - Report! Immediately and in detail. Workman, Employer and Medical treatment agency. That's the advice, from all departments and on every level of responsibility of the Work- n's Compensation Board, Ontario. Fundamental and simple as it may seem, ilyre to report, promptly and in full, on the roumstances and results of an accident is far 1d away the most prevalent cause for delays y injured workmen receiving the benefits to ich they are entitled under the Ontario >rkmen's Compensation system. From the workman's point of view WCBO ookesmen emphasize even the most minor injur- ~s should be reported. In cases where the nly treatment required is First Aid it is >t necessary to report the matter to the rard. However, the Ontario Workmen's Compen- ation Act does require that employers provide irst Aid treatment facilities and that there e documentation by the company of all inci- ents resulting in treatment. But it all star- s with that first report of the incident rom the injured workman. Tf more than First Aid is necessary, that s a visit or attendance by a medical practi- ioner or treatment in the emergency department f a hospital, the matter must be reported to he Workmen's Compensation Board for payment f medical costs. Here again there will norm- 1ly be no requirement for a report to the oard from the workman himself. In some instan ces the workman may eventually receive forms 0 be returned to the Board confirming that le received the treatment outlined, but in any .ase the incident must be reported to the Board by the employer. Where an incident results in a workman los- ing work time beyond the day of the accident, 'hus entitling him to cash compensation bene- Fits, the initial report of the incident will rormally be made by the employer or the medical agency, since both are obliged 'under the Act to file such reports. Payment may be made on receipt of the employer's report alone for a limited time, however, for continuing payment, progress reports from the workman and his doc- tor will be necessary. Forms should be com- pleted in full and returned to the Board promp- tly so that further cash payments can be paid. Once a claim is established, the Ontario Workmen's Compensation system provides medical aid and lost time benefits which are the match of any comparable jurisdiction anywhere in the world. But not a wheel can turn and not a sin- gle member of the Board's more than I,600 em- ployees can lift a finger to help an injured CORRECTION The Association of Guides and Brow- nies wishes to correct the oversight in last week's write up. A special thanks should go to Mrs. B. Pytyck, who was in charge of Cookie Day. RUMMAGE AND WHITE ELEPHANT SALE The Communify Church Rummage and White Elephant Sale¢/will be held on Friday and Saturday, Mdy 25th and 26th in the Church basement. ~ For pick-up on Thursday, May 24th = ! Phone 825-3241. WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE - By Ray Shank Mentioned a few unusual records last week. Read about a few more and thought I'd pass them on. A 26-year-old woman from Frampton On Severn, England recently became the world's first woman champion at eating baby eels. Mrs. Gilliam Hemmings gulp- ed down half a pound of eels in 53 seconds to claim the world's title ... Closer to home, in Plant City, Fla., a group of Central Florida boy and girl scouts recently set a world record for pushing baby buggies. The old record, set last year by a bunch of Australian youths, was 272 miles in 24 hours. The Florida kids eclipsed the world mark by three quarters of a mile in the 24-hour period ...... Meanwhile, in Mount Clemens, Mich., a service station attendant, Marshall Maynor, recently missed out on attempt- ing to smash the world's insomniac rec- ord. Maynor managed to go I26 hours without sleep, but finally collapsed before a TV set and slept for 28 hours, non-stop. The world champion insom- niac is a Cape Town, South Africa wom- an, who avoided sleep for II days, I7 hours and 55 minutes. Maynor says, how -ever, that he'll try again, but that continued page IO workman until they have the information they