Haywood v. Henrietta Coal Co.

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

The claimant, William Alfred Haywood, a young man eighteen years of age, employed by the defendant as a miner, lost his left eye as the result of an accident which occurred in defendant’s mine on September 24, 1932.

Haywood was drilling a hole preparatory to blasting in the back heading of Henrietta Mine No. 6, located in Clearfield County, Pa. Another miner, Andrew Benovic, forty-nine years of age, and his son were preparing a hole in the main heading some 60 feet away. These headings were parallel to each other and connected by a “shoe fly” or crosscut passageway. The…