Shaul v. Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.

Blume, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Arthur W. Shaul, the workman herein, was employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, appellant herein, at its' mines at Sunrise, Wyoming. On January 10, 1931, he was lowering coal from the surface through a shaft to the second level of the mine by the use of a hand windlass, which in some manner struck him on the left cheek, causing an apparently severe injury. Nobody seems to have witnessed the accident and the workman herein stated that he did not know how it happened. He was taken to the hospital at Sunrise conducted by the employer,…