Young v. State Compensation Commissioner

Fox, Judge:

H. H. Young, an employee of Crozer Coal and Coke Company suffered an injury from a slate fall while working in the mines of his employer on December 14, 1939. He was forty-nine years of age at the time, had worked in the mines of his employer for fifteen years, and in the mine in which he was injured for five or six years. The circumstances connected with his injury are as follows:

The claimant Young and J. L. Baker were working together in coal which was ninety-one inches high. Overlaying this coal was a layer of draw slate of an average thickness of eight inches. Some time before…