White v. Delta Shipbuilding

This is a suit for workmen's compensation. We find the facts of the case to be as follows:

Plaintiff is a thirty year old colored laborer. During the month of July 1942, he was employed by Delta Shipbuilding Company, Inc., at a wage equaling $32 per week. On February 8, 1943, while he was engaged in the performance of his duties of cleaning up debris on the deck of a ship under construction, he was struck on the head, shoulders and back by a large steel or iron valve which was being handled by plumbers working above him and which fell from a height of some eight or ten feet onto his body,…