Deleary v. Anaconda Aluminum Co.

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This appeal is taken from a judgment entered in the district court, Flathead County. The Anaconda Aluminum Company (hereinafter referred to as employer) takes issue with the district court’s award of benefits to claimant Jerry L. DeLeary.

The injury involved occurred on August 26, 1971, when claimant, employed by Anaconda Aluminum Company at its reduction works at Columbia Falls, Montana, slipped on a catwalk which resulted in molten aluminum entering his left shoe, severely burning his lower left leg. Claimant was treated…