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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.

Limited to the Hawaii County board. Monthly reports from 1925 to 1929 from the secretary to the board list totals of first and final reports, lost work days and fatalities, brief information on particular claims and a list of monthly bills.
The annual, 1915-1928 and fiscal July to June reports, 1915-1928, in letter form to the Governor, provide statistical summaries of the year's operations with number of accidents, fatalities, lost work days, compensation payments, etc. There is a brief discussion of cases of note. Administrative matters such as operating expenses are also covered.
The ten-year report for 1915 to 1925 summarizes operations and comments on the board's experience with employers and developments in the law during this time. Attached are statistical exhibits on accidents, nationality of employees, lost workdays and compensation paid.

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.

Limited to the Hawaii County board. Correspondence with employers on such matters as insurance policies and self insurance and on specific claims and reports; with Territorial offices on personnel, budget and inventory; with various state and national organizations, reviewing legislation, experience and procedures; and with the U.S. Employees Compensation Commission. Also includes legal opinions on topics such as average weekly wage determination, benefits to nonresident dependents and definition of casual laborers. Of interest are reports of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters covering job safety and job injuries on the plantations.