Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. v. Industrial Commission

Peter Kiewit Sons’ Company and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin bring this cause here by writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Denver District Court in favor of the widow and surviving children of Oscar V. Hyman, who was an iron worker employed on a canal project by the Kiewit Company.

On April 24, 1950, the date of his death, Hyman, from about 8:15 o’clock A.M. to 11:55 o’clock A.M.,'moved heavy iron rods of varying sizes and shapes, and weighing approximately 150 pounds per bundle, -from stockpiles a distance of from 100 to 200 feet over a. rough, stony and…