Pulver v. Department of Labor & Industries

Charles Pulver, a single man forty-five years of age, who will hereinafter be referred to as the claimant, on January 27, 1934, sustained an injury while engaged in extrahazardous work, as defined by the workmen’s compensation act.

As claimant was attempting to dislodge a barrel of asphalt, weighing some four or five hundred pounds, from the sand or earth into which it had settled, he suffered a sharp and severe pain in the region of the right sacroiliac joint and right kidney. Being thereafter unable to work, he consulted a doctor, and within a few days his claim for benefits under the…