Zajac v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff, the only witness to the accident, testified in substance that, observing the middle roll was stopped, he reached through the opening beneath the bearing to start it; that when he touched the bottom of the roll it moved fast and caught his hand; that ho “yanked it and pulled it out,” that the nails on the inside of the belt scraped the back of his fingers and knuckles and that the roll turned the arm and broke it. The only other evidence bearing on the manner in which the plaintiff’s hand was caught is the testimony of the plaintiff’s mechanical expert, who stated that the…