Dentice v. Industrial Commission

The plaintiff, age thirty-nine, was employed by the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company on a boring mill. On November 7, 1945, while in the course of his employment he hit a nail on the platform on which he was standing with his foot and fell against the boring machine and then against a near-by drill press. He received medical and hospital attention and on December 17th returned to work. He worked four days and then stayed away until January 7, 1946. He worked until February 18, 1946, and thereafter did no work because of complaints of numbness in his side and back, floating ribs that felt…