Floyd v. Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.

' George Floyd was employed in the converting mill of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, and was a foreman in charge of one of its cupolas. He had under him three men. Their duties were to attend to the cupolas, withdraw the molten iron and distribute and care for the slag or refuse which rose to the surface of the iron after it was melted. This slag or refuse was drawn off through what is termed a cinder notch or tap hole in the cupola and through a runner. These runners are half circular troughs of iron, about eight feet long and weigh in the neighborhood of seven or eight hundred pounds.…