Browning v. Moss Williams & Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

This is a workman’s compensation case. It is here on an appeal by the employee from a judgment of the Letcher Circuit Court, which substantially upheld the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board but remanded the case for modifications thereof.

On February 20, 1945, appellant was employed as a “pit man.” He worked in a strip mine operated by áppellee, and his duties required him to clean up scattered coal behind a shovel-dipper. He was struck by a piece of slate rock which was hurled against his head after a dynamite blast. The impact…