Watkins v. State Compensation Commissioner

Woods, Judge:

Scott E. Watkins, who was in the employment of the Daniels Colliery Company on the 11th day of October, 1928, as a coal loader, claims to have been suffering from pains in his head and neck, since that date, due to concussion or jar from a “shot” put off that-morning by a fellow workman on the opposite side of a fifteen foot block of coal, and that by reason thereof he was forced to quit work the following afternoon and has been totally disabled from performing any labor since. It appears that the block of coal had been cut under from both sides, and that the charge for the…