Gillaspie v. United Iron-works Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In this case it appears that the plaintiff lost an eye by being struck by a sliver of steel from a tool called a “set,” or “snap,” used to receive the blows of a sledge in riveting the plates of metal *71beams. The “snap,” or “set,” in question was a lump of steel, shaped somewhat like the head of a small sledge. The top surface was flat, the bottom was cupped to fit over the ends of rivets, and it was held by a %-inch wire handle bent round it in a groove cut for that purpose. A rivet red-hot from the forge would be inserted from the bottom in…