Burch v. Potlatch Forests, Inc.

KNUDSON, Justice.

Appellant, claimant, Eugene Burch, was employed by respondent, Potlatch Forests, Inc., as a handyman in respondent’s paper mill at Lewiston, Idaho. On February 23, 1959, appellant was about to unhook a reel of paper when the crane-hook broke loose and struck appellant on the side of his head producing lacerations on the outside and inside of appellant’s mouth and breaking off two of appellant’s teeth, the upper left first bicuspid and the upper left cuspid, below the gum line. By reason of the accident suturing of said lacerations and extraction of the remains of the two…