Randa v. Detroit Screw Works

The plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $800 for the loss of an eye through the bursting of an emery wheel at which he was at work in the defendant’s factory. There is little dispute upon the facts. Defendant had two machines for running emery wheels for grinding purposes, one geared to a speed of 2,000 revolutions per minute, the other geared to a speed of 5,000 revolutions per minute. Caswell, who was the foreman, under Taylor, who was in charge of the factory as superintendent for the defendant, directed a workman to put a six-inch wheel upon the latter machine, and, when this…