Pekin Wood Products Co. v. Burkhardt

Appellee recovered a judgment to compensate the damages resulting from a personal injury sustained by him while employed by appellant as the operator of a machine known as a shaper. This machine has a flat steel top, resembling the top of an ordinary table through which protrudes two spindles. Attached to each of these spindles is what is known as a shaper head. This head has four flat faces and is about four or five inches high. There are slots in the face of each head in which are fitted bolts which hold knives onto the face of the head. These heads revolve in opposite directions at a speed…