Claim of Peploe v. Burns Bros.

This is an appeal from an award of death benefits made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to the widow of a deceased workman.

Decedent worked as a yardman for self-insured employers who were in the coal business. Just before the incident he had been engaged in loading a truck. The coal was kept in pockets, some forty feet high, and when a truck was to be loaded a chute was opened over the truck for the coal to flow through. There is no proof that the coal jammed in the chutes but there is proof that when the coal became low in the pockets a yardman had to get in the pocket and shovel the coal…