Sabela v. Newport Mining Co.

The plaintiff was a trammer in the defendant’s mine, and his duties, as claimed by him, were shoveling ore into four-wheeled steel cars, called “buggies,” and pushing (or tramming) the buggies to and from chutes where they were dumped. It appears that trammers work in pairs, and the plaintiff had been the partner of one Steve Levendosky several weeks. On the day of the accident, according to the plaintiff’s testimony, he protested to the trammer boss about the defective condition of the buggy and track which caused the buggy to fall between the rails occasionally, and was promised by him that…