Dow's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, affirming the findings and decision of a single member of that board, awarding compensation to Lillian M. Dow, the partially dependent mother of Jonathan Dow, an employee of the American Tire Fabric Company nineteen years of age, who was the tender of a beaming machine or beamer and died on June 20, 1917, after, as…
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Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, affirming the findings and decision of a single member of that board, awarding compensation to Lillian M. Dow, the partially dependent mother of Jonathan Dow, an employee of the American Tire Fabric Company nineteen years of age, who was the tender of a beaming machine or beamer and died on June 20, 1917, after, as alleged, sustaining the injury described in the opinion. The decision of the Industrial Accident Board from which the appeal…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The deceased employee was a beamer tender in the employ of the American Tire Fabric Company. As such, it was his business to see that yarn was wound round a revolving beam, or cylinder, which had a beam head with a flat surface and an edge about five eighths of an inch wide. Back of the beam upon which the yarn is wound is a roll four or five inches in diameter, *350which presses against the beam; and there is a long leverage which goes to the ceiling and there gives compressed leverage. Because of the pressure roll the beamer tender is never supposed to pass his hand across the yarn to see…
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