Baltimore Steel Co. v. Burch

Lee R. Burch' (appellee) is a structural iron worker and on July 27, 1941, was employed by the Baltimore Steel Company in erecting in Baltimore a building known as Hutzler’s Annex. While in the course of this employment, and arising out of the same, he met with an accident. He described the occurrence as follows: “The way the beams are on a structural building, from one beam to another, this plank was right alongside one of the beams I was working on, so when I stepped on this plank, I skinned my right side up, as I went down the hole, then I landed on my left side; that kinda threw me off…