Guyer v. Sterling Laundry Co.

Plaintiff, a young woman nineteen years of age, sustained severe injury to her hand while in the employ of defendant. She was engaged in operating a machine known as a “baby mangle,” a rapidly revolving heated cylinder about six feet long, used for the purpose of drying and pressing thin, soft fabrics, such as handkerchiefs, towels, etc. Plaintiff had been operating this machine for about two months before the accident happened. The machine itself appears to have been in perfect working order. At the time of the accident plaintiff was holding an apron in her hands and was stretching the apron…