Sickels v. Packard Motor Car Co.

Plaintiff, Ernest Sickels, claims compensation for an injury lie received on July 15,1927, while working in the wood-working department of defendant, the Packard Motor Car Company. A fragment of steel, loosened when a hammer contacted with a steel cutter, struck plaintiff in the right eye and caused him considerable pain. He immediately repaired to defendant’s hospital for treatment by the head nurse, who made a written record of the accident. She provided him with some medication to apply to the eye, and, with the assistance of his wife and fellow employees, he followed -the prescribed…