Piukkula v. Pillsbury Astoria Flouring Mills Co.

Omitting mention of formal matters, the complaint (amended) alleges that the defendant conducts a flour manufacturing business in a building equipped with power-driven machinery. The sacked flour moves down a chute from the manufacturing room to the storage room where it is trucked by workmen to other places. These operations create flour dust “and the air in and about defendant’s said enclosed workrooms is heavily charged and impregnated therewith which, if permitted to enter the respiratory organs of its employees worMng therein, and inhaled by them into their lungs is, if continued for any…