Strother v. United States Coal & Coke Co.

Miller, Judge :

Plaintiff’s decedent, Henry Gilbert, an adult, employed in March, 1912, as a water bailer and general laborer in defendant’s coal mine, was injured and killed, by the falling of slate upon him while at work in the mine. The place of the injury was in the main entry and haulway at a point where the mine foremen with the slate gang were engaged in excavating for putting in what is called an overcast, as a part of the ventilating system of the mine. This excavation was necessarily made in the roof of the mine over the haulway and air course to the height of from fifteen to…