Hoon v. State Workmen's Insurance Fund

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

The claimant, Peter Hoon, commenced to work for the defendant company in 1934. In the latter part of 1936 he was employed principally in what is known as trimming cars; improving their appearance by distributing lumps of coal on top of the loaded cars. On different occasions, however, he had been engaged in breaking the larger lumps of coal as they passed over a shaker. The use of a two-pound hammer was required to do this work which was more arduous than his other duties.

On Saturday, September 16,1939, the claimant started to break coal at 12:30 p.m. and continued so…