Phelps Dodge Corporation v. Dewitt

This proceeding is before us on certiorari from an award of the Industrial Commission awarding compensation to Waldo DeWitt, the injured employee. The Phelps Dodge Corporation, the employer, is the petitioner securing this review. The facts of the case are not in dispute and may he stated as follows: The employee, while engaged in the usual course of employment, suffered an injury to his back occasioned in the following manner. DeWitt picked up a rim mounted but deflated truck tire, which is estimated to have weighed at the time 70 to 100 pounds; took one step; threw and pushed the rim and…