Bates & Rogers Construction Co. v. Emmons

*22Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

-Affirming.

On August 6tli, 1918, appellee Emmons was in the -employment of the appellant at lock and dam 33 on the «Ohio -river.' There was a barge load of rock which they •were sending over to the coffer dam and there was a ■-.cable wire to carry the bucket when loaded. Emmons, -with several others, was shoveling rock into the bucket ■when the man at the other end undid the rope above and -the cable flew up and struck Emmons across the bridge of his nose and left -eye. The blow knocked him back- - wards and blinded him. He was bleeding profusely from…