Frandila v. Department of Labor & Industries

Gust Frandila was a coal miner, and in June, 1924, was sixty years of age. For eight months prior to June, he had been out of employment, and what work he did during that period was limited to chopping firewood for his home. On the 2nd day of June, he was employed to assist in digging a ditch for a sewer in one of the streets of Hoquiam. He went to work at one o’clock in the afternoon, and, about three hours thereafter, he was noticed by the foreman to stop chopping on a root at the bottom of the ditch, which was then some 4% feet deep, throw away his ax, lean against the ditchside and…