Amicucci v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiff Baldoino Amieneci and another employee, Harvey Flowers, worked' for defendant Ford Motor Company at the same bench, burring, filing and grinding aluminum stock. Each man used an air-driven emery grinder which resulted in the accumulation of considerable dust on the work bench and their clothing.

On the day in question, Flowers, having completed his particular job, removed the air hose from his grinder and, in the words of the department of labor and industry — “as was customary among the employees, used the hose to blow the dust off the bench and off his clothes. Some of the dust was…