Oleszek v. Ford Motor Co.

On September 15, 1916, the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant at its plant in Highland Park, while cleaning an oily, greasy floor, slipped and fell, dislodging an iron pipe which in its fall struck and injured his right leg a few inches above the shoe top. The extent to which there was an abrasion of the skin does not appear. He was removed by his fellow workmen to a first-aid room provided by defendant, in the plant. Two young men, selected by the doctors, in charge of this room and employed by defendant, applied treatment to the wound, after which plaintiff resumed work, being assigned…