McCulloch v. Industrial Commission

A PROCEEDING under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The Industrial Commission and the district court, in turn, found for claimant, but because of the latter's failure, as further found, to obey a reasonable safety rule, the compensation to be paid was reduced fifty per cent.

It appears that claimant was employed by defendant in error Pikes Peak Fuel Company, as a coal miner, and that in the course of such employment he received particles of coal in his left eye which resulted in permanent loss of the vision thereof. If there was a company rule requiring miners to wear goggles while performing…