Holland v. Industrial Commission of Utah

WADE, Justice.

Appeal from a decision of the Industrial Commission denying an award for injuries claimed to have been sustained by plaintiff on July 6, 1954, during the course of his employment at the Geneva Coal Mine of defendant Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, United States Steel Corporation.

The Commission denied the award on the ground that from the entire record it found that plaintiff’s ailment, a ruptured disc, was not the result of an industrial accident. The evidence disclosed that although plaintiff fell from a bench while trying to prevent a damaged stoper machine from falling on a…