Croff v. Lakey Foundry & MacHine Co.

Defendant appeals from the department of labor and industry's award granting compensation to plaintiff, under part 2 of the workmen's compensation act,* for disability resulting from a personal injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment without the happening of an accident or fortuitous event.

Employed by defendant as a core setter for over two years immediately preceding his injury, plaintiff was accustomed to setting from 90 to 125 jacket cores, weighing around 80 or 90 pounds, and lifting possibly two boxes of Hubbard cores, weighing close to 150 pounds, per day. On…