Amerada Petroleum Corp. v. Whitley

This is an original action to review an order of the State Industrial Commission entered on the 24th day of July, 1031, awarding compensation to respondent, E. T. Whitley, and against petitioner, Amerada petroleum Corporation.

Respondent was injured June 11, 1926, while in the employ of petitioner, in its gasoline plant in Okmulgee, Okla. On June 12, 1926, petitioner signed “employer’s first notice of injury,’’ which was filed with the State Industrial Commission on June 19, 1926, and which stated that the accident occurred while respondent was “working under a tower and wrench fell striking…