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Limited to City and County of Honolulu. Consists of registers by file number, assigned consecutively upon receipt of accident report, and including names of employer and employee and date of accident. The three registers covering the years 1915 - 1927 are titled "Record of Consecutive Numbers of Accidents and/or Disabilities." The two volumes covering 1931-1933 and 1936-1938 are titled "Employers's Reports of Accidents."

Limited to City and County of Honolulu Industrial Accident Board/Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Consists of listing of employers and employees who had cases heard or reviewed by the board (and later the bureau, 1940-1944). Each entry shows the consecutive hearing number, the employer or employee and file number.

Contains a record of appropriations and expenditures by biennium, by various categories such as personal services, current expenses, etc.

Contains the Honolulu board's draft bills for proposed changes to Act 221 along with correspondence, research memos, surveys, reports and recommendations. Subject areas include second injury and rehabilitation programs, broadening of coverage and extension of benefits to employees not previously covered and changing the definition of dependents.

The minutes of the meetings of the Honolulu board run from its inception in 1915 through 1939, when its functions were taken over by the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Regular weekly hearings of the Bureau are included from 1940 through 1941. There is a six-month gap in 1917 when the board's activities were suspended pending a court ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
These records are contained in the 13 bound volumes, comprising 31 linear inches, and include fairly detailed summaries of claims before the boards, their disposition and awards, and names of parties present; rulings on the scope and extent of the law; definitions and interpretations of the law; procedural guidelines; rulings on forms of insurance policies; actions taken on self-insurance applications and delinquencies; entries on protests and appeals; notes on opinions solicited from the City & County attorney; notes on correspondence; early news clippings; some statistical data; and internal business matters, such as personnel and funding, etc. Records created after the functions of the Honolulu board were taken over by the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau are less detailed. Also includes copies of the first and second annual reports bound in vol. 1 for the six months ending Dec. 1915 and year ending 1916.

The minutes of the meetings of the Hawaii County board include notes on all cases and hearings, parties present, and issues, facts and findings. Also includes notations on self-insurance applications and delinquent employers. Other matters noted include correspondence and discussion on procedural inquiries and administration. Monthly vouchers and accounts payable are listed. These records are much less detailed than the Honolulu board minutes and are contained in one folder of .75 linear inches.

Records limited to Honolulu board. Contains files on delinquent employers, i.e., those who failed to obtain or renew policies or provide alternate security. Typical files include delinquent employer cards with summary case information, notice letters, subpoenas and transcripts of board hearings. Unresolved cases were referred to the City and County Attorney and include copies of further legal proceedings. The files are not complete, having been sampled during initial processing in the late 1980's, but include samples of various types of employers including taxi companies, dance halls, newspaper distributors, building contractors and various small businessmen such as grocers, launderers, plumbers, etc.

Rulings excerpted from the minutes of the Honolulu board interpret the law and its operations, and cover such matters as determination of average weekly wage; coverage for employees of sub-contractors; required forms of policies; lump sum payments; etc. Includes sample forms referred to in the rulings.

Organized into records of the City and County of Honolulu Industrial Accident Board/Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, 1915-1941 and records of the Hawaii County Industrial Accident Board, 1915-1929.