Byrne v. Clark Equipment Co.

Defendants appeal from an award of the department of labor and industry granting plaintiff compensation of $18 per week for 300 weeks, beginning March lp 1941, together with medical, hospital, and funeral expenses.

Plaintiff’s decedent husband was employed by defendant Clark Equipment Company. His regular work was the lifting of steel axle housings, weighing from approximately 60 to 180 pounds, off a cooling rack and carrying them 6 or 7 feet to a rolling machine. During an 8-hour day’s work he handled from 240 to 300 axle housings.

On February 7, 1941, plaintiff’s decedent told the personnel…