Hi I’m Daniel K and I’m in Mr. Sal’s 6th period history class. Back in the early 1900’s they didn’t care for injured workers as much as they do today. In 1914 about 700,000 people were injured and 35,000 died on the job. Injured workers back then weren’t compensated if they were injured at their work place. Basically if a miner was in a mine and the mine collapsed and he got too injured to work he would not be compensated for it, or if a railroad worker got his leg smashed and broken by a railroad rail being dropped on it he wouldn’t get compensated for it either. They would most likely just get fired, but after prostests by unions and articles by muckrakers the state of Maryland in 1902 passed a law to compensate injured workers. Then by 1916 two thrids of states required companies to compensate workers injured on the job.