Clark v. Department of Labor & Industries

Respondent, an employee of the Diamond Match Company, while engaged in extra-hazardous work in its factory, was injured. Her work consisted of sorting blocks conveyed from saws. The blocks measured two inches by two and three-eighths inches, and from six to twenty inches in length. While so engaged, at about ten o’clock in the morning on June 7, 1923, one of the blocks was thrown from a saw and struck respondent on the right side of the abdomen. Almost immediately she complained of severe pain, and suffered from nausea. The following morning her doctor determined that she was suffering *257from…