Kangas v. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.

The plaintiff was injured while in the defendant’s employ as a miner in the Lake mine, in *257Marquette county, on May 18, 1910. At the time of the accident the mine was being operated by two shifts; the day shift commencing work at 7 o’clock and ending at 6 o’clock, and the night shift commencing at 7 o’clock and ending at 6 o’clock. These shifts were engaged in the work of removing certain old timbers from a sublevel and replacing them with new ones, because the pressure ©f the mine had gradually crowded the timbers down until the space in the drift had become too small to permit the tram cars…