American Mut. Liability Ins. v. Garth

■ This appeal is from an award of compensation for the accidental death of Nathan Garth, a colored helper in the boiler room of the Oil Mills. The sole insistence made is that this employee’s death was due to his “willful misconduct, or intentional self inflicted injury.”

We find no evidence supporting the charge of “intentional self inflicted injury,” and shall confine our discussion to the charge of “willful misconduct.”

While engaged in cleaning ashes from a combustion chamber of a large boiler, Garth entered the chamber thru a small opening used for that purpose in order better to clean out…