Frederickson v. Burns Lumber Co.

Certiorari to the Industrial Commission to review its order dismissing relator’s appeal from adverse findings by the referee.

Mr. Frederiekson, the relator, on May 9, 1924, was in the employ of Burns Lumber Company, as a sort of night watchman and janitor. A part of his work was the sweeping of certain floors in the employer’s factory. To facilitate that work he had to move, on the evening in question, three trucks, one of which carried a heavy load of gum-wood. Somehow, while he was handling that truck, it swung or slipped back against him in such a way as to bruise him severely across the…