Metcalf v. Department of Labor & Industries

August 21, 1930, Alva Metcalf was engaged in bucking logs in Thurston county. A tree had fallen across the road, and Mr. Metcalf was working rapidly in order to get the road open so that a man named Benson might pass. The log was approximately twenty-one inches in diameter at the point he was sawing, and it was in such a position that the saw was being pinched, thereby requiring more exertion to propel the saw. Mr. Metcalf was working in a very inconvenient place, sawing with one knee on the ground. When the log was almost sawed through, he fell over and died without regaining consciousness.

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