Wisconsin periods of each such total or partial disability shall be in accordance with said subdivisions (a) and (b), respectively. "(d) Said subdivisions (a), (b) and (c) shall be subject to the following limitations: "In case of temporary or partial disability aggregate indemnity for injury to a single employee caused by a single accident shall not exceed four times the average annual earnings of such employee, and in case of permanent total disability aggregate indemnity for injury to a single employee caused by a single accident shall not exceed six times the average annual earnings of such employee. "Total blindness of both eyes, or the loss of both arms at or near the shoulder, or of both legs at or near the hip, or of one arm at the shoulder and one leg at the hip, shall constitute permanent total disability. This enumeration shall not be exclusive but in other cases the commission shall find the facts. "The aggregate disability period shall not, in any event, extend beyond fifteen years from the date of the accident. "The weekly indemnity due on the eighth day after the employee leaves work as the result of the injury may be withheld until the twenty-ninth day after he so leaves work; if recovery from the disability shall then have occurred, such first weekly indemnity shall not be recoverable; if the disability still continues, it shall be added to the weekly indemnity due on said twenty-ninth day and be paid therewith. "If the period of disability does not last more than one week from the day the employee leaves work as the result of the injury, no indemnity whatever shall be recoverable. "(5) In cases included by the following schedule, the compensation to be paid, subject to the provisions of this act for maximum and minimum payments, shall be sixty-five per cent of the average weekly earnings of the employee for the periods named in the schedule, to wit: "The loss of one arm at or near the shoulder, 240 weeks; "The loss of an arm at the elbow, 200 weeks; "The loss of a forearm at the lower half thereof, 160 weeks; "The loss of a hand, 160 weeks; "The loss of a palm where the thumb remains, 80 weeks; Wisconsin "The loss of a thumb and the metacarpal bone thereof, 60 weeks; "The loss of a thumb at the proximal joint, 40 weeks; "The loss of a thumb at the second or distal joint, 20 weeks; "The loss of an index finger and the metacarpal bone thereof, 30 weeks; "The loss of an index finger at the proximal joint, 20 weeks; "The loss of an index finger at the second joint, 15 weeks; "The loss of an index finger at the distal joint, 10 weeks; "The loss of a second finger and the metacarpal bone thereof, 20 weeks; "The loss of a middle finger at the proximal joint, 15 weeks; "The loss of a middle finger at the second joint, 10 weeks; "The loss of a middle finger at the distal joint, 5 weeks; "The loss of a third or ring finger and the metacarpal bone thereof, 12 weeks; "The loss of a ring finger at the proximal joint, 8 weeks; "The loss of a ring finger at the second joint, 6 weeks; "The loss of a ring finger at the distal joint, 4 weeks; "The loss of a little finger and the metacarpal bone thereof, 15 weeks; "The loss of a little finger at the proximal joint, 10 weeks; "The loss of a little finger at the second joint, 8 weeks; "The loss of a little finger at the distal joint, 4 weeks; "The loss of all the fingers of one hand where the thumb and palm remain, 60 weeks; "The loss of a leg at the hip joint, or so near thereto as to preclude the use of an artificial limb, 240 weeks; "The loss of a leg at or above the knee, where stump remains sufficient to permit the use of an artificial limb, 160 weeks; "The loss of a foot at the ankle, 120 weeks; "The loss of a great toe with the metatarsal bone thereof, 30 weeks; "The loss of a great toe at the proximal joint, 20 weeks; "The loss of a great toe at the second joint, 10 weeks; "The loss of any other toe with the metatarsal bone 12 weeks; thereof Wisconsin "The loss of any other toe at the proximal joint, 4 weeks; "The loss of any other toe at the second or distal joint, 4 weeks; "The loss of all the toes of one foot, 40 weeks; "The loss of an eye by enucleation, 160 weeks; "The loss of the second eye, by enucleation, 320 weeks; "Total blindness of one eye, 120 weeks; "Total blindness of the second eye, 240 weeks; "Total deafness of both ears, 160 weeks; "Total deafness of one ear, 40 weeks; "Total deafness of the second ear, 120 weeks. "When by reason of infection or other cause not due to the neglect or misconduct of the injured employee, he is actually disabled longer than the time specified in the foregoing schedule from earning a wage, compensation shall be paid such employee for such loss of wage within the limits otherwise provided. "For the purposes of this schedule permanent and complete paralysis of any member shall be deemed equivalent to the loss thereof. "Whenever an amputation is made between any two joints mentioned in this schedule (except amputations between the knee and hip joint) the resultant loss shall be estimated as if the amputation had been made at the joint nearest thereto. "In all other cases in this class the compensation shall bear such relation to the amount stated in the above schedule as the disabilities bear to those produced by the injuries named in the schedule. "If an employee is seriously permanently disfigured about the face or head, the commission may allow such sum for compensation on account thereof, as it may deem just, not exceeding $750. "In case of permanent injury to an employee who is over fifty-five years of age, the compensation herein shall be reduced by 5 per cent; in case he is over sixty years of age, by 10 per cent; in case he is over sixty-five years of age, by 15 per cent. "(a) Where injury is caused by the failure of the employer to comply with any statute of the state or any lawful order of Wisconsin the industrial commission, compensation as provided in sections 2394-3 to 2394-31, inclusive, shall be increased fifteen per cent. "(b) Where injury is caused by the wilful failure of the employee to use safety devices where provided by the em ployer, or "(c) Where injury results from the employee's wilful failure to obey any reasonable rule adopted by the employer for the safety of the employee, or "(d) Where injury results from the intoxication of the employee, the compensation provided herein shall be reduced fifteen per cent." For compensation where an employé has suffered a previous injury see § 2394-10 subd. 1, (d). |