Smith v. Western States Portland Cement Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MASON, J.:

G. F. Smith was injured while in the employ of the Western States Portland Cement Company. He recovered a judgment under the factory act, and the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff’s duties required him to work about a conveyor box — a long wooden box twenty inches wide and two feet deep, through which clay was conveyed by the revolution of a large auger or screw, extending for its entire length. He stepped into the box at a place where it was not covered, and the motion of the con- ■ veyor so crushed his foot and leg as to require amputation.…