Industrial Commission v. McManigal

Hugh McManigal, the plaintiff’s decedent, was an electrical worker in the employ *385of The F. M. Grant Company, of Cleveland, and in February, 1917, with other workmen, was engaged in installing electric wires and conduits in a new factory building, partly completed, and owned by The Peerless Automobile Company of Cleveland.

The building had a gabled roof and ceiling and was heated by open stoves or salamanders, between thirty and fifty in all, burning coke, and throwing off carbon-monoxide and carbon-dioxide gases.

The electrical conduits were being attached to and along certain iron beams in the…