Ehman v. Department of Labor & Industries

Joseph Ehman, respondent before this court, was, for more than twenty years, in the employ of the Defiance Lumber Company, of Tacoma. For the major portion of this period, his work consisted of lifting and carrying bundles of wooden flooring, approximately six inches in width and twenty feet in length. The weight of the bundles varied from sixty to eighty pounds. If the lumber was wet, the bundles were heavier by twenty or more pounds. Ehman would pick up these bundles, place them on his shoulder, and carry them a distance of twenty or thirty feet to the appropriate place, where he would…