Fortin v. Beaver Coal Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Department of Labor and Industry. Rose Fortin and others presented their claim for compensation against the Beaver Coal Company for the accidental death of their decedent in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtWiest, J.
Earl Fortin, 25 years of age and unmarried, was employed in defendant’s coal mine as a trip rider, and'had worked in the mine 11 years. In the mine, at the foot of a double hoisting shaft, there was a pit known as the sump, to let the bottom of the cages in to bring the floors thereof flush with the floor of the mine. The sump was an open space about 4 feet 10 inches by 6 feet 6 inches and 5 feet deep. Earl Fortin, on the day he was killed, had finished *509his work for the day, and, evidently intending to volunteer his help to the eager, attempted to jump across the sump, and was struck by a…
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