Ellis v. Bemis Bro. Bag Co.

YARRUT, Judge.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation. There is no question that Plaintiff was an unskilled worker in a hazardous employment, at a weekly wage of $53.60; and that he was injured on April 27, 1960, while feeding material to a roller on a band label machine when the roller fell across his right hand, resulting in an injury and disability which the medical testimony described as:

“A comminuted fracture of the proximal phalanx of the right hand and the fracture was of the open type. There apparently was some infection following the injury and a small sequestrum has extruded.…