Lindblom v. Hazel Mill Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for What-com county, Hardin, J., entered September 19, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in a sawmill.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
Action for personal injuries. Plaintiff, a youth of nineteen, came to this country from Finland in July, 1913. In the latter part of that month, he started to work for defendant. For a time he worked on the slab saw, and for seven days prior to the accident he worked as offbearer behind the edger. The edger machine contained four or five rapidly revolving saws and was used to cut large timbers, called cants, into narrower pieces and rip off the slabs. The timber was fed through a series of rolls in the edger machine, the lower of which were live rolls and forced the timber through the saws…
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