Bromberg v. Evans Laundry Co.

'At the time in question the defendant company was engaged in operating a steam laundry in the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, in which establishment the plaintiff, a girl of seventeen years of age, was, and for several months had been, an employe. A part of the equipment of the laundry consisted of a mangle, or machine for ironing cuffs and collars. In this, device three horizontal rollers or cylinders were employed. The middle cylinder was of smooth iron or steel surface heated by gas jets in its interior, while the upper and lower cylinders were of larger diameter and had their surfaces…