Hommerding v. Clarence Landwehr Heavy Moving

Rogosheske, Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Industrial Commission denying benefits for an alleged work-connected back injury.

Relator, Virgil Hommerding, employed as an “oiler,” was a part of a crew of seven men engaged in tearing down a large, metal, propane-gas storage tank — removing and cutting up the metal sheeting of which it was constructed with acetylene torches. The employee testified that on March 27, 1962, while carrying a 125-pound oxygen tank to the cutting crew and when he was within 15 or 20 feet of his coworkers, he slipped upon one of the oily metal sheets. The…