Wimpari v. Rubicon Lumber Co.

The defendant surety company reviews by certiorari an award made by the department of labor and industry in favor of the plaintiff for an injury to his right hand, caused by its coming in contact with machinery in the sawmill of the defendant lumber company, in which he was then working. The work which plaintiff was employed to perform was “tailing the edger.” The lumber passes from the saw by which it is cut on live rollers to smaller saws which remove the edgings and make the boards of uniform width. Plaintiff was required to place these edgings on what is spoken of as the “slasher table,”…