Armstrong v. State Industrial Accident Commission

In October, 1929, William Wallace Armstrong, of the age of forty-two years, was employed by the Ford Motor Company in Portland, Oregon. The evidence tended to show that on October 5 he received an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. The accident was due to some automobile wheels falling from a pile and hitting him upon the back of the neck and shoulders. The decedent was engaged with another man in piling the wheels, which weighed about twenty pounds each and were piled fifteen wheels high, and about six of them fell approximately eight feet, landing edgewise…