Consolidation Coal Co. v. Bailey

*115Opinion pi? the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

On June 30th, 1915, the appellee, Bailey, was injured ■ ■while working in the appellant’s coal mine as a helper in “Operating an electric coal cutting machine. Appellee was ■ .a' man of experience as a coal “loader,” but'had only "begun to work as a helper to the cutting machine on the • «day before he received his injuries.

The room in which Bailey was hurt was being driven > "through a large block of coal approximately 100 feet in' ■width and 200 feet in length; and, at the time of the accident the room had been driven thirty or forty feet "back…