Lehto v. Atlantic Mining Co.

Plaintiff, a boy 15 years old, was employed by defendant to perform certain duties connected with the operation of what are designated in the record “roughing machines,” which perform the operation of separating copper and rough sand. Defendant had a number of these machines and on the same floor with *414them a “grinder” run by a 12-inch belt passing from an elevated line shaft to and over a 36-inch pulley, running by the side of the grinder and close to the floor of the room. By the side of this pulley was an “idler,” or loose pulley, to which it was customary to shift the belt when it was…