Louis B. Siegel Company, Inc. v. Moore

The action was to compensate personal injuries sustained by appellee, a Siegel employe. A stationary block with blade formed one of two surfaces to which scrap metal was fed. Cutting occurred when a second blade, power-driven and operating scissors-like, contacted the object intended to be reduced. Brittle particles were frequently broken from metal. These would sometimes be projected with considerable force in an uncontrolled manner.

While “feeding” the machine May 21, 1940, a steel sliver struck appellee, entering the right forearm and inflicting permanent injury. Of sixteen errors alleged…