Steel Sales Corp. v. Industrial Commission
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oscar M. Torrison, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Frederick Schwinn, an employee of the plaintiff in error corporation working as a machine hand, went into the toilet room of the building of said company on November 9, 1916, and while there his clothing caught fire and before it was extinguished he was so badly burned that he died. The arbitrator found the injury did not arise out of the employment. The Industrial Commission found to the contrary and made an award, which was affirmed by the circuit court. The cause is now here on writ of error.
The .duties of the deceased were to cut cold-steel plates on a cutting machine in the basement of…
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