Nuzum Ex Rel. Nuzum v. Roosendahl Construction & Mining Corp.

CROCKETT, Justice:

Review of the Industrial Commission’s denial of compensation to the plaintiffs, the surviving children of Alfred Jay Nuzum, who expired on the job while working as a truck driver for defendant Roosendahl Construction and Mining Corporation. The issue is whether his death resulted from an accident arising out of or in the course of his employment.1

On the day of his death, March 13, 1974, Mr. Nuzum was working at his regular job driving a ten-wheel dump truck on a Roo-sendahl construction project in Kearns. The driver’s seat of the truck is 6 feet off the ground. The driver…