Traders & General Insurance Company v. Reed

GREEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment for total and permanent disability plus recovery of $1,168.00 unpaid medical bills in a workman’s compensation case. Appellee was injured March 26, 1961, while working on a drilling rig. A cat line raising three joints of pipe to the top of the derrick became fouled in a rapidly rotating cathead and broke, causing appellee to be struck in the back by steel tongs weighing approximately 250 pounds and to be knocked to the floor of the derrick. There he was repeatedly struck many times by a metal chain and steel cable attached to the rotating…