Consolidated Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

George Dillon, a coal miner employed by plaintiff in error, was injured October 20, 1922, by a rock weighing twelve pounds falling from a height of ten feet on the small of his back while he was in a stooping position. He fell to the ground, where he lay about a half hour, and was then taken out of the mine and to his home. He had worked steadily in the mine eight years before his injury, and during the year next prior to his injury had earned an average of $10.39 Per day when the mine was at work. Dillon was fifty-two years old when he was injured and had a wife, and four children under…